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On the phone side, the iPhone synchronizes with the contacts and calendars on your Mac or PC, as well as contacts and events on iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, Outlook.com, and Microsoft Exchange. It includes a full-featured QWERTY virtual keyboard, which makes typing text easier than ever before — for some folks. Granted, the virtual keyboard takes a bit of time to get used to. But we think that many of you eventually will be whizzing along at a much faster pace than you thought possible on a mobile keyboard of this type.

The camera in your iPhone is paired with iOS 15’s improved Camera and Photos apps, so taking and managing digital photos and videos on your iPhone is a pleasure rather than the nightmare it can be on other phones. Plus, you can automatically synchronize iPhone photos and videos with the digital photo library on your Mac or PC.

The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max cameras are the best yet, with all the features of the preceding Pro generation cameras, including autofocus with focus pixels to help prevent out-of-focus pictures. And all models available today have the best executions yet of the greatest camera feature ever: optical image stabilization, which uses data from the processor, gyroscope, and motion coprocessor to determine camera motion when you’re shooting, and then compensates for your shaky hands or low light. Bottom line: All iPhone 13 models shoot better low-light photos than previous iPhones, and iPhone 13 Pro models shoot the best low-light photos and videos yet.

Cinematic mode (iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max only) adds a beautiful depth effect with automatic focus that can be changed during and after capture. For what it's worth, these two iPhones are the only devices that can edit depth-of-field effect in video after recording (at least for now).

Finally, don’t miss the Live Photos feature (all current iPhone models), which captures a bit of video before and after the still image. This brings images to life when viewed, and it’s as easy as ever to add effects — such as loop, bounce, and our favorite, long exposure — making Live Photos perhaps the coolest iPhone camera feature since, well, whatever we called the coolest iPhone camera feature in a previous edition.

Another of our favorite phone accouterments is visual voicemail. (Try saying that three times fast.) This feature lets you see a list of voicemail messages and choose which ones to listen to or delete without being forced to deal with every message in your voice mailbox in sequential order. Now, that’s handy!

Finally, all iPhone models include Siri, an intelligent voice-controlled assistant that understands what you tell it (most of the time). Siri just keeps getting better at figuring out what you mean and determining which (if any) iPhone app should be used to find the right answer. And, like a real personal assistant, Siri replies in a natural sounding human voice. Furthermore, it has become even smarter in recent years with proactive assistance, which provides the most relevant information and suggestions at a particular moment and place using on-device learning, which helps Siri deliver a more personalized experience based on your usage of Safari, News, Mail, Messages, and other apps.

One more thing: Siri can also take dictation!

If you’ve tried voice control before, forget everything you know and give Siri a try. We think you’ll be as impressed as we are (as long as you have a good internet connection when you try it — Siri can be close to useless if your connection is slow) — and are in a relatively quiet environment or are using a headset.

We’ve mentioned just the highlights of the iPhone’s superb set of features. But because we still have the entire book ahead of us, we’ll put the extended coverage on hold for now (phone pun intended).