A Brighter Display

Rumors of a brighter display were a complete swing-and-miss. While Apple has brightened up its iPhone displays over the past few years, all four iPhone 16 models feature the same 2,000-nit peak outdoor brightness as last year’s iPhone 15 lineup. Those brighter displays were introduced on the iPhone 14 Pro two years ago and came to the standard iPhone 15 last year.

What the iPhone 16 does get is a much dimmer screen, with the ability to go as low as one nit of minimum brightness. Apple never specified how dim the screens could get on previous models, but it obviously wasn’t that low.