How the New IPhone 5S Will Change Your Food Life

Matt Duckor

The new Apple iPhone 5S
The new Apple iPhone 5S

Another September, another new Apple product that everyone can't help talking about. This time, it's the iPhone 5S, which features enough nerdtastic upgrades to keep the tech bloggers frothing at the mouth (at least until the next update), but you're probably only concerned about one thing: Will the new iPhone change your relationship to food? The answer: Yes, of course! Here's how:

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Upgraded Camera: If you're anything like us, you use your phone mostly for taking photos of food (at restaurants and at home), with the occasional call or email mixed in to justify expensing the monthly bill owning the thing in the first place. Good news: The 5S's new camera has a few things going for it. Low light-the bane of on-the-fly restaurant photography-should be less of a problem, thanks to the camera's wider f/2.2 aperture (the lower the aperture, the more light the camera can "see" ) and the addition of an image stabilizer. Then there's the flash. Up till now, we've advised against using the LED flash for any and all food photos, but Apple promises that it's new "True Tone" flash will combine white and amber LEDs to automatically adjust flash intensity and color to specific situations. So maybe your midnight burger won't have that stunned-by-the-paparazzi look anymore.

iOS 7
: Sure, the entire operating system has an entirely new design-it favors a narrower color palette, clean lines, and flat shapes-but we're fixated on the completely redesigned camera software. Not only can you shoot with an Instagram 1×1 square crop in place, but you can also shoot video at 120 frames per second-i.e., in slow motion. Even video pro favorites like the Canon 5D MKiii or C300-which cost many times the 5S's $199-$849 price-won't let you do that. So now you can record your friend's impromptu Champagne sabering for all posterity.

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Touch ID: No need to enter a passcode to unlock your phone anymore. Simply place your finger over the home button, and your iPhone will just know it's you. Ideally, this will deter potential thieves from snatching the expensive gadget you've placed just out of the corner of your vision on the weathered wood of that artisanal cocktail bar. Our only concern here: How will we be able to 'gram while eating messy barbecue, greasy fried chicken, or fast-melting ice-cream cones?

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