There are many big upgrades to the iPhone16 A18 chip, but there are 1 big features that Apple forgot to tell us According to 9to5mac, the A18 chipset will also feature "Secure Exclave," which debuted on the Apple M4 chip earlier this year

The idea behind Secure Exclave is to improve user privacyThis is one of the things that Apple has been pushing strongly for the last few years1 This new component handles a feature called Secure Indicator Light (SIL) that controls the microphone and camera indicators on the M4-powered ipad 

Microphone and camera indicators have been present since the launch of iOS14 The goal was to notify the user when one of these was working That way, the user can know if any of these are being actively used, and if it is not a deliberate act by the app that was actively using it, it may indicate that it is being spied on Or that at least 1 or more apps are exploiting the permission in a way that should not be exploited

However, in the past these metrics were software-based and could be problematic if malicious actors found a way to circumvent triggers, but routing these features to hardware should make security around these metrics more robust

Apple has kept pretty quiet about it, so it's unclear if a security exception can do anything else After all, you won't want to advertise all your best new security features because everything you reveal gives bad actors more information to try and avoid them This is not what we want

But regardless of what kind of silicon Apple uses, it's good to make sure it offers the latest security measures on all new devices With the launch of new private cloud computing that helps keep the data utilized by AI processing done in the cloud, it seems that the iPhone16 could be the most secure iPhone ever

Pre-orders for iPhone16 will open on 9/20, ahead of the release date of 9/13 You can read the initial impressions of the phone in the Iphone16 Hands-on review and iPhone16Pro & iPhone16Pro Max Hands-on review