Smartphone · 2013
iPhone 5s
The first iPhone with Touch ID and a 64-bit processor, in an aluminum body carried over from the iPhone 5. It introduced gold to the line.
- Introduced
- 20 September 2013
Paired with a black front. Replaced the black and slate finish of the iPhone 5.
Finishes
Specifications
Record
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Family
- iPhone
- Category
- Smartphone
- Generation
- Seventh-generation iPhone
- Announced
- 10 September 2013
- Release
- 20 September 2013 — First-wave countries, including the US, UK, Japan and China
- Discontinued
- 21 March 2016
- Model numbers
- A1453, A1457, A1518, A1528, A1530, A1533
Dimensions and weight
- Height
- 123.8 mm
- Width
- 58.6 mm
- Depth
- 7.6 mm
- Weight
- 112 g
Display
- Type
- Retina, LED-backlit IPS LCD
- Size
- 4-inch diagonal
- Resolution
- 1136 × 640 pixels at 326 ppi
Chip
- System on a chip
- Apple A7 (64-bit)
- Motion coprocessor
- Apple M7
- CPU
- Dual-core, 1.3 GHz
Apple did not publish a clock speed; figure from third-party measurement.
- Memory
- 1 GB LPDDR3
From teardowns; not published by Apple.
Storage
- Capacities
- 16 GB
- 32 GB
- 64 GB
Cameras
- Rear (iSight)
- 8 megapixels, ƒ/2.2, 1.5 µm pixels
- True Tone dual-LED flash
- 1080p video at 30 fps; 720p slow motion at 120 fps
- Front (FaceTime HD)
- 1.2 megapixels
- 720p video
Security
- Biometrics
- Touch ID fingerprint sensor in the Home button
Battery
- Type
- Built-in lithium-ion
- Capacity
- 1560 mAh
From teardowns; not published by Apple.
- Talk time
- Up to 10 hours on 3G
- Standby
- Up to 250 hours
Connectivity
- Cellular
- LTE
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
- Bluetooth
- 4.0
- Connector
- Lightning
- Audio
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- SIM
- Nano-SIM
Software
- At launch
- iOS 7
- Final major version
- iOS 12
History
Touch ID debuted here, built into a Home button capped with sapphire crystal and ringed in the phone's metal finish.
The A7 was the first 64-bit processor used in a smartphone.
Launched alongside the iPhone 5c, which carried the iPhone 5's internals in a colored polycarbonate body.
March 2016
The enclosure design continued in the first-generation iPhone SE, which replaced the 5s in the line-up.
Lineage
The iPhone family- 2007iPhone (not yet catalogued)
- 2008iPhone 3G (not yet catalogued)
- 2009iPhone 3GS (not yet catalogued)
- 2010iPhone 4 (not yet catalogued)
- 2011iPhone 4S (not yet catalogued)
- 2012iPhone 5 (not yet catalogued)
- 2013iPhone 5c (not yet catalogued)
- 2013iPhone 5s
- 2014iPhone 6 (not yet catalogued)
- 2016iPhone SE (1st generation) (not yet catalogued)
About this entry
Sources: Apple, iPhone 5s technical specifications; Apple Newsroom, iPhone 5s announcement (10 September 2013).