Why The iPhone 13 Camera Is Now Diagonal

Welcome back everyone, you may have noticed that during Apple’s keynote, the iPhone 13 now has a little bit of a different camera setup, but here’s the funny thing, it’s the same exact camera, for the most part, we still have that wide-angle lens and that ultra-wide sensor, but you can now see that the cameras are no longer up and down, they’re no longer symmetrical:

They are actually diagonal now, is this a bad thing? not really, I think the main reason they did this was to pretty much make a visual difference because if they had not made that diagonal camera, it would have almost looked identically the same to the iPhone 12’s, which they are still selling:

You may be asking yourself, why didn’t they change the iPhone 13 Pro’s camera? it looks almost the same as the 12 Pro, but the big thing to keep in mind here is that Apple is still selling the iPhone 12’s, and they’re still selling the iPhone 11’s as well brand new, they are no longer selling the iPhone 12 Pro, so they didn’t have to make a massive body difference. Now, the reason that’s important is that a person walking into the Apple store, or a person going to their Apple website, and they go to purchase one of these iPhones, they don’t even have the option to compare it at least on their website, or at least in the Apple store side by side, of course, they can still compare them online, but I’m not too sure how many people would do that (average consumers).

The main reason Apple changed the camera, in my opinion, was to make that visual difference so that when people compare these two, they’ll be like “oh, this is the new one because the cameras are this way”. Now, there are camera improvements, be stabilization features as well, but it is interesting that this camera is now diagonal.