6 Apple Features that Similar to Android

6. AV1 Decode and Ray Tracing

Apple’s A17 Pro chip is looking like a super-powerful smartphone processor. But Apple is also offering a couple of chip-related features we’ve seen on Android phones for a while now.

Even the iPhone 15 Pro line's chipset is bringing two hardware features that first appeared on Android.
 
For one, it’s now offering AV1 decoding on the Pro phones. This allows for the same video playback quality at a smaller file size or improved quality for the same file size. Loads of recent Android phones offer this feature, and Netflix and YouTube offer AV1 streaming too. 

In fact, 2019’s MediaTek Dimensity 1000 was the first smartphone processor to offer AV1 decoding.

Meanwhile, Apple’s Pro phones also bring ray tracing to the table. This technology enables more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in video games. 

Last year’s Samsung Exynos 2200 chip (used in the European Galaxy S22 series) was the first mobile SoC to offer hardware-enabled ray tracing. But we’ve since seen the tech arrive on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and MediaTek Dimensity 9200 processors.