Any RAW format is the image exactly as captured by the camera’s sensor. Pro RAW is the one used by your iPhone. They are uncompressed and look awful until you manually ‘develop’ them in software, but you have complete control over the image so they are favored by advanced photographers. They are really large, though, and could eat into that 256 GB.

Edit: corrected typo

Did you get a new iPhone? Of so, it will look like this while it is restoring the apps from your backup. Once it has finished in a few hours, those will go away.

I’m sorry for the stress this has caused, and that you didn’t get the phone you ordered. I really think, though, that you are unlikely to fill the 256 GB model unless you are planning to take a ton of Pro RAW images or a bunch of 4K video. For regular people just snapping pictures and quick video of their lives, you’ll be fine.

I once bought the 512 GB version, but when I next upgraded, I looked at my storage and was using less than a quarter of the capacity, so I dropped back to the 256 GB for my current phone. I pay no attention to how big my apps are, hardly ever delete anything, and keep the full sized photos on it, and I’m still only using 94 GB. My wife uses even less than that and she also pays no attention to how much storage she uses.

Unless you are a YouTube content creator, or a travel blogger, I really think you can feel comfortable with this phone meeting your needs. If you can, try to put the whole thing behind you, focus on what a great phone you have, and let yourself really enjoy it. It’s an amazing device.

Why the insistence by everyone that there cannot be a hardware foundation for a feature being listed to answer the question? The OP didn’t specify there could be no hardware basis for the difference, they just asked what you can do with an iPhone 14 that you can’t do with an iPhone 13 because they are curious what the difference is between the two phones. Every difference in what iOS 16 can do on the 14 that it can’t on the 13, except the new wallpaper, is based on a hardware change. Eliminate those and there is no point to the question or the answers.

This could be a problem on a free iCloud account with almost no storage. If the account has room, though, then it will keep multiple backups. I’ve had to create a new install, then go back and choose an older backup to restore, and it works fine.

On a free account, there may not be enough room for two backups, so the older one may be overwritten. If the person only has the free account, they could log into iCloud from any browser, upgrade to the 99 cent plan, go through this process, then downgrade again later if they want.