The new and excellent iPhone 13 Pro lineup has a thicker digital camera bump than earlier generations (7.65mm vs. 7.4mm within the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max). It sounds negligible, but it surely’s sufficient to trigger just a few small points with accent compatibility. For occasion, the iPhone 13 Pro apparently doesn’t fit perfectly onto the MagSafe Duo dual charger due to its dimension. And based mostly on my colleague Sam Byford’s first-hand expertise, it additionally doesn’t match all that effectively when positioned inside the Backbone One, the very best iOS controller you’ll be able to presently purchase.

The Backbone One has a, for lack of a greater phrase, spine that connects all sides of the controller. The iPhone 13 Pro’s digital camera bump causes the telephone to relaxation inconsistently whereas nested within the Backbone One, making it wobble throughout use. That’s not an enormous difficulty in itself, other than the truth that the telephone is technically much less safe within the controller.

But he reported just a few disconnect points whereas enjoying, too. And if the system isn’t flat whereas linked by way of the controller’s Lightning jack, there’s motive to imagine that it may very well be placing stress on the iPhone 13 Pro’s Lightning port, which can quantity to a much bigger drawback over time. So, preserve this in thoughts if you have already got one in all these controllers and anticipate an ideal match.

Sam Byford

We’ve reached out to Backbone to touch upon this difficulty. But this drawback isn’t remoted to simply this firm. Presumably, there are a number of bespoke equipment, in and outdoors of the realm of gaming, made to suit iPhones and Android telephones as much as a sure degree of thickness. But as cellular images will get extra superior, the sensors and lenses constructed into telephones will seemingly get bigger, too.