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The "action" camera mode (basically gimbal replacement) looked pretty good if you were a film maker/Youtuber. And "multiple eSims" might be useful if you're a traveller/digital nomad as you were previously limited to two. But yeah, other than that it did seem a bit sparse on new features this year. Hopefully next years will be a big one to make up for it?

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The ”action” mode works by cropping in to negate the camera shake, so you’re left with a smaller image than with a physical gimbal. Also it’s post processing that’s probably already available in you editing apps, so it’s more about the convenience (and quality?) of having it done on the OS than something new.

This might be better application since phone will doing this with help from some hardware sensors.

By the way, if anyone know any video stabilizing software, please let me know. Tracking feature on video editors seem complicated to me.

In the specific case of stabilizing a video, the actual physical movement usually matters less than the pixels actually on screen, so it might be less of an advantage (for instance knowing that the phone turned right doesn’t affect the cropping you’ll apply to keep a stable portion of the image)

Stabilizing is usually a separate feature from tracking, at least it’s a separate plugin on Premiere. Sadly I’m not well versed in the field.

I still haven’t looked into it much but IIRC iPhone 12 & iPhone 13 could already save multiple eSIMs, while 13 could activate 2 at the same time. I think it was up to 8 (or 10) saved eSIMs?

If this is true it may sway me to getting an iPhone 13, I want to do some travelling in the future so being able to have multiple e-sims saved would be beneficial. I thought that it seemed a bit odd that you could only have two of something that was completely digital but makes much more sense if it's only two active SIMs at once.

Yeah, after I wrote that comment I went looking for actual info on eSIM differences on iPhone 14, but there isn’t really any. Support articles aren’t up yet and the asterisk/note is just a basic eSIM disclaimer.

I think that bit along with SIM slot removal is just a push towards eSIM.

How do eSIMS work, Do I need to use a special provider?

Where I'm residing everything is backwards and difficult, I'm not sure eSIMs are going to be easy for me?

AFAIK eSIMs are implemented using a reprogrammable SIM chip residing in the device, and “applying” a saved eSIM (or installing one) means reinitializing it with the SIM’s parameters. I think it’s even implemented somewhat closely to a physical SIM.

Regardless, you need your carrier to support phone eSIMs and one of several registration methods: app, QR code, or manual parameters. (because some carriers support data-only eSIM for smartwatches)

But given this new eSIM push (and that non-US iPhone 14 models will keep the SIM slot) I think a lot more carriers are going to work towards this now. One of the 30 shown in Apple’s event is an Israeli carrier and they’ve been dragging their feet on eSIM for years, only doing the bare minimum for Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch.

Does it support more than two active ones, or was it previously limited to only be able to store two in total?

Don’t forget about the car crash mode ... what a joke.

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