Now that the iPhone 15 lineup is on cabinets, and now we will formally begin interested by the iPhone 16. Naturally, any rumors or leaks you see this early are going to be fluid at greatest–even when they’re correct now, plans can and do change and there’s nonetheless loads of time to take action earlier than the iPhone 16 enters manufacturing.
With all that mentioned, right here’s what probably the most prolific leakers and tipsters say we will anticipate concerning the iPhones coming within the fall of 2024.
Replace June 28: A new report from The Info says that Apple is predicted to debut a brand new, easier-to-replace battery within the iPhone 16.
When is the latest iPhone popping out?
The iPhone lineup is at all times introduced at an occasion in September and often ships every week or two later. There have been instances when a selected mannequin or variant will ship in October due to provide chain shortages, nevertheless.
The everyday day for the iPhone and Apple Watch occasion is the second Tuesday in September, which this 12 months is September 12. So we will anticipate the iPhone 16 line to be introduced on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, with preorders beginning seemingly on Friday, September 13, and at the very least some fashions transport on September 20.
iPhone 16 worth
For reference, the latest iPhone lineup (iPhone 15) is priced as follows:
- iPhone 15: $799/£749
- iPhone 15 Plus: $899/£899
- iPhone 15 Professional: $999/£999
- iPhone 15 Professional Max: $1,199/£1,199
There’s no new details about the pricing of the iPhone 16 line, so it makes probably the most sense to imagine it would price the identical because the iPhone 15 line, at the very least till we hear in any other case. Meaning the usual measurement iPhone 16 for $799 and the bigger Plus mannequin for $899, whereas the iPhone 16 Professional might price $1,099 and the iPhone 16 Professional Max would possibly go for $1,199. There are additionally some studies that say Apple will introduce a higher-end Extremely mannequin with a bigger display screen than the Professional Max, which might clearly have a better price ticket.
The iPhone 16 might have a smaller Dynamic Island.
The iPhone 16 might have a smaller Dynamic Island.
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The iPhone 16 might have a smaller Dynamic Island.
Artur Tomala / Foundry
Artur Tomala / Foundry
iPhone 16 colours
When Apple launched the iPhone 15, it launched a completely new colour palette. The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus are available in acquainted Black, Blue, Inexperienced, Yellow, and Pink choices, however with far more muted hues than their predecessors. The one rumor we’ve heard about iPhone 16 colours issues the iPhone 16 Plus, although we anticipate its smaller sibling to have the identical colours. It says will probably be obtainable in the identical 5 colours because the iPhone 15, with the addition of White and Purple.
For the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max, Apple makes use of 4 titanium-inspired colours: Black Titanium, White Titanium, Blue Titanium, and Pure Titanium. For 2024, Apple is rumored to introduce two new colours—Desert Yellow and Cement Grey—that may extra carefully resemble the house grey and gold colours of previous.
iPhone 16 options
Design and show
There are few particulars concerning the iPhone 16 lineup to date, besides that it ought to look, effectively, like an iPhone. All the iPhone 15 line now has the Dynamic Island, so anticipate that pill-shaped cutout on the iPhone 16 fashions as effectively. Some rumors say Apple has discovered a solution to put among the Face ID sensors below the show, so the iPhone 16 Professional fashions may have a fair smaller digital camera cutout than the usual fashions.
Ming-Chi Kuo and Ross Younger each report that the show measurement on the Professional fashions will probably be getting greater–about 0.2 inches measured diagonally–with a barely taller side ratio. Meaning the iPhone 16 Professional can have a 6.27-inch show and the Professional Max a 6.86-inch show (up from 6.12 and 6.69 inches). The bigger measurement is reportedly essential to accommodate extra subtle digital camera {hardware} however can even add a little bit of display screen actual property. A later report concerning the iPhone 16 show provide chain corroborated the notion of an iPhone 16 (at the very least some fashions) with slimmer bezels. A mock-up by ZoneOfTech reveals that the iPhone 16 Professional Max could possibly be greater than the iPhone 15 Professional Max. ZonOfTech doesn’t state the way it acquired the scale and specs used to create the mock-up.
If you happen to have been hoping to get an always-on show with out shopping for an iPhone 16 Professional or Professional Max, you’re in all probability out of luck. In response to a report in The Elec, Apple will persist with commonplace OLED screens for the iPhone 16 reasonably than the LPTO screens within the Professional fashions in order that they received’t help ProMotion or always-on. Nonetheless, the iPhone 17 will reportedly get the higher-end sceens.
On the again of the iPhones, you must also anticipate to see a bigger digital camera array on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions as a result of inclusion of a periscope super-zoom telephoto lens on each fashions and different new digital camera tech. Nonetheless, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are rumored to be getting a smaller digital camera array with a pair of vertically aligned cameras just like the iPhone X.
New to the iPhone 16 lineup will probably be a Seize Button, in response to a number of studies. Will probably be on the identical aspect as the ability button, positioned decrease, so it may be activated with the index finger of your proper hand when holding the cellphone in panorama orientation. Will probably be contact and pressure-sensitive, permitting customers to zoom in by swiping and to regulate focus with a mushy press whereas triggering the shutter with a full press.
The iPhone 15 Professional fashions have been initially anticipated to introduce new solid-state buttons, however more moderen rumors counsel they merely received’t be prepared in time and can seem on the iPhone 16 Professional as an alternative. Regardless, all iPhone 15 Professional fashions are anticipated to function an Motion button rather than the mute change, which ought to broaden to all the iPhone 16 lineup in 2024.
Specs and options
With every new iPhone comes a brand new A-series processor, and you’ll guess the development will proceed subsequent 12 months. The iPhone 16 Professional will due to this fact seemingly function the A18 Professional processor, whereas the non-Professional iPhone 16 fashions may undertake a cut-down model of the A17 Professional that debuted within the iPhone 15 Professional, though latest rumors have prompt Apple will rebrand that chip as an A18. It’s far too early to take a position about subsequent 12 months’s chip’s options and efficiency, but it surely’s unlikely that subsequent 12 months’s non-Professional iPhones can have the identical Professional chip as this 12 months. A rumor in March 2024 claimed the A18 Professional chip can be bodily bigger, with extra space devoted to an improved Neural Engine with the efficiency to help extra “edge AI” options (AI options that run on system reasonably than within the cloud).
The battery capacities of the iPhone 16 lineup are reportedly very related to that of the iPhone 15 line, with some fashions as a lot as 5% increased and the iPhone 16 Plus an outlier with 9% much less capability. Battery life is an element of many elements, although, so it’s unclear in the event you’ll get higher battery life out of the iPhone 16 or not.
A report on 9to5Mac infers from a part of an unrelated provider report by Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple will probably be utilizing Sony’s new stacked CMOS picture sensor expertise within the iPhone 16 Professional fashions subsequent 12 months, which ought to imply sensors with enormously elevated low-light sensitivity. Moreover, Kuo reported in September 2023 that the smaller iPhone 16 Professional will acquire the iPhone 15 Professional Max’s periscope digital camera.
A report from MacRumors cites a “Weibo account with a confirmed observe file for disclosing correct details about Apple’s plans” in saying that the iPhone 16 Extremely (or regardless of the high-end mannequin is known as) may take spatial pictures and movies meant for viewing on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple already launched the flexibility to file spatial movies on the iPhone 15 Professional so it is sensible that Apple will broaden this function to pictures on the iPhone 16 Professional.
Apple has been arduous at work by itself wi-fi chips for years, and even Qualcomm’s CEO expects Apple to make use of its personal 5G modems beginning in 2024. Clearly, that is contingent on continued profitable growth and testing, which has been a problem for Apple and each different firm attempting to make top-tier 5G expertise. A report by Jeff Pu of Haitong Worldwide Securities in October 2023 claimed that the iPhone 16 will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 5G modem, which delivers “higher speeds, protection, mobility, hyperlink robustness and site accuracy.”
As well as, Pu studies that we will anticipate Wi-Fi 7 within the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. Wi-Fi 6E solely arrived within the Professional fashions this 12 months, so it’s potential Apple makes use of it for one more 12 months, however there are already a dozen Android telephones with Wi-Fi 7 and it will be uncommon for Apple to be two years behind if it needed to wait till the iPhone 17 in 2025.
So far as different specs, Pu studies that the non-Professional iPhone 16 will convey a bump in RAM (8GB vs 6GB) and WiFi speeds (6E vs 6) to match the iPhone 15 Professional fashions.
Naturally, the iPhone 16 line will function USB-C as an alternative of Lightning for charging and wired connectivity. That change already got here with the iPhone 15 and Apple isn’t about to backtrack. Prior rumors about Apple making an attempt to make a very port-free iPhone appear to have fizzled out.
A rumor in November 2023 claimed that the iPhone 16 Professional can have a brand new battery design with a metallic casing as an alternative of black foil, a brand new connector, and a barely bigger capability (3,355mAh vs 3,274mAh). The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional Max are additionally rumored to get bigger batteries—3,561mAh and 4,676mAh, respectively—whereas the iPhone 16 Plus may see a dip to 4,006mAh.
This new battery is predicted to be considerably simpler to interchange so as to higher adjust to a brand new EU regulation, in response to The Info. Customers would nonetheless have to open up their iPhones, which isn’t precisely straightforward or quick, however as soon as that’s accomplished you shouldn’t should wrestle with adhesive strips.
