New images giving us our first glimpse of the real world inside the new iPhone 13 revealed a smaller Taptic engine, larger battery, and revamped components of the TrueDepth camera system.

iPhone 13 mini disassembly
The ‌iPhone 13‌ lineup will begin hitting customers on Friday, a week after pre-orders went live. While a more professional teardown of the device will be shared online in the days and weeks to come, the occasional leaker Sonny Dickson shared images on Twitter which gives us our first look at the iPhone 13‌.

According to the images, which likely represent an iPhone 13‌ or iPhone 13‌ mini, Apple has downsized the Taptic Engine on this year’s iPhone compared to the iPhone 12. The downsizing was likely part of Apple’s efforts to free up internal space to make room for a larger battery. Apple boasts that the iPhone 13 has significantly improved battery life over last year’s iPhone‌ due to the efficiency of the A15 Bionic chip and a physically larger battery. as confirmed by the images.

internal image of iphone 13 notch


With the iPhone 13, Apple reduced the notch by 20% after years of being the same size. For reaching the smaller notch, the footage highlights that Apple had to move the front camera to the left side of the TrueDepth camera system while moving the dot projector and infrared camera to the right side. The images also show the earpiece moved to the upper bezel, further allowing for a smaller notch.

While there are likely other internal changes, we’ll have to wait for a more professional teardown of the device, like the ones iFixit does every year, to find out more. For comparison, check out last year’s iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro teardown.

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