Month: October 2020

iPhone 12 Mini

According to Xcode 12.1, the iPhone 12 Mini will have a 2.88x retina screen and render at the same 375 x 812 logical resolution as the 11 Pro, X, and Xs. That’s a similar approach as the 6 Plus took. I suspect most people will neither know nor care.

iPhone logical resolutions, ordered

iPhone virtual screen resolutions with a 2.16:1 ratio, ordered from smallest to largest:

12 Mini: 360 x 780
12 Mini, 11 Pro, X, Xs: 375 x 812
12, 12 Pro: 390 x 844
11, 11 Pro Max, Xr, Xs Max: 414 x 896
12 Pro Max: 428 x 926

So the 3 new phone resolutions slot around the 2 previous ones (Update: except for the 12 Mini, which will have the same logical resolution as the 11 Pro, X, and Xs despite having a different physical resolution)

iPhone 12 screen ratios

All iPhone 12 models have the same 2.16 ratio as previous Face ID phones. Which means the new phones (except maybe mini) will probably support at least one level of display zoom. Now that there are 5 4 virtual resolutions at this ratio, I wonder if larger phones might support two.