Apple’s plans to bring a powerful periscopic telephoto lens to the iPhone. this would give the iPhone the boost in optical zoom it would need to compete with, and even surpass, the best Android rivals such as Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra.
Apple’s current flagship, The iPhone 13 Pro Max, offers a modest 3x ‘optical zoom’, whereas the Galaxy S22 Ultra extends this feature to 10x zoom
According to Apple’s patent, the new lens would offer a continuous optical zoom range between 3x and 5x with an aperture of between f/2.3 and f/2.9.