See What's Inside Apple's iPhone 6s

  • The innards of the iPhone 6s revealed.
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  • A large Taptic Engine below the battery for the new 3D Touch technology makes the phone 30% heavier.
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  • The new iSight camera boasts 12 megapixels with Deep Touch Isolation technology to ensure that the pixels don't leak light onto one another.
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  • The home button is more responsive than on previous models.
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  • An x-ray reveals the Taptic engine (in dark black) responsible for 3D Touch.
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  • The logic board responsible for computing functions in the camera. (Fluorescent colors added to highlight key parts)
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  • The iPhone 6s entirely dismantled.
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By TIME Photo
September 25, 2015 11:18 AM EDT

Apple’s new iPhone 6S packs 3D Touch as well as an improved camera that shoots 12 megapixel photos and high-res 4K video. Check out the iPhone guts that make this possible thanks to our friends at iFixIt.

Also, take a look at the iPhone’s Taptic Engine at work in this X-ray video by Creative Electron:

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