iPhone firsts
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Order by the year an iPhone first shipped with each feature. Drag or tap it onto the line
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iPhone firsts
Order by the year an iPhone first shipped with each feature. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
30
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the iPhone firsts timeline game
Each card is a feature, and the year to find is when an iPhone first shipped with it. A short explanation of the feature is printed under the name. One feature sits on the timeline at the start, year showing. As each new card arrives, decide which gap it belongs in. If you're right, the year appears; if you're wrong, the feature still drops into place and costs one of your three lives.
Apple has added something to the line almost every fall since the first model, so the deck moves steadily from the basics of a touchscreen phone to camera, chip, security and connectivity upgrades. Several features can share a launch, and those close neighbors are where runs wobble. Some things arrived on rival phones first, so don't date a feature by when you first saw it anywhere. Camera and charging upgrades are especially easy to confuse.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Multi-touch screen Pinch and swipe with your fingers
- Visual Voicemail Voicemail as a tappable list
- App Store Download third-party apps
- Built-in GPS Satellite positioning for maps
- Video recording Shoot clips with the rear camera
- Digital compass Built-in magnetometer
- Retina display Pixels too small to see
- Front-facing camera Made FaceTime video calls possible
- Siri Voice assistant
- Lightning connector Reversible charging port
- Touch ID Fingerprint sensor in the Home button
- 64-bit processor Apple A7 chip
- Apple Pay Tap to pay with NFC
- 3D Touch Pressure-sensitive screen
- Dual rear camera Wide and telephoto lenses
- Face ID 3D facial recognition
- Wireless charging Qi charging through a glass back
- eSIM Digital SIM for dual SIM use
- Night mode Brighter low-light photos
- Ultra Wide camera Zoom-out lens for wider shots
- 5G Faster cellular networks
- MagSafe Magnetic charging and accessories
- ProMotion display Adaptive high refresh rate
- Dynamic Island Shape-shifting screen cutout
- Emergency SOS via satellite Texting for help with no signal
- USB-C Universal charging port
- Action button Customizable button replacing the mute switch
- Camera Control Pressure-sensitive camera button on the side
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