iPhone to monitor for Zwift

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Hey, I’m wanting to use my iPhone 12 with an AV adapter to hook up to a monitor for using Zwift. My question is, does the iPhone only output in full HD (1920x1080) or if I bought a WQHD (2560x1440) monitor would it upscale and give a better quality picture? Basically, am I better sticking with a full HD monitor or would a more expensive WQHD monitor give me better results? Any advice is much appreciated!
 
2560x1440 is just Quad HD (4x 1280x720), not a Wide version of that (which would be 3440x1440 and similar). Although there is still some use of W for widescreen from the days when it distinguished 16:10 from 4:3 resolutions which is why you might see it appended to a plain QHD monitor.

The monitor would upscale to native resolution so your 1920x1080 output would fill the screen, but whether it'd be better quality is debateable.

If your phone is limited to 1920x1080 then I'd stick to a monitor of the same resolution. I don't know anything about Apple's phone hardware but that does seem low for a recent high end phone .
 
According to the Apple site the iPhone 12 has a 2532x1170-pixel resolution at 460 ppi. I’m not sure what the means in terms of a full HD vs. QHD monitor. I guess it’s nearer to the 2560x1440 though, so maybe a monitor with that resolution would work better?
 
According to the Apple site the iPhone 12 has a 2532x1170-pixel resolution at 460 ppi. I’m not sure what the means in terms of a full HD vs. QHD monitor. I guess it’s nearer to the 2560x1440 though, so maybe a monitor with that resolution would work better?
Apples official HDMI video cable outputs 1080p 60Hz.
 
According to the Apple site the iPhone 12 has a 2532x1170-pixel resolution at 460 ppi. I’m not sure what the means in terms of a full HD vs. QHD monitor. I guess it’s nearer to the 2560x1440 though, so maybe a monitor with that resolution would work better?

Given the DPI value that'll be the details of the internal screen, which is unrelated to what it's capable of outputting.
 

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