We’re getting nearer to the launch of the iPhone 16 sequence. The brand new handsets will probably be introduced throughout Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” occasion on September 9, 2024, and they’ll succeed the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Professional fashions.
The iPhone 16 is predicted to have extra vital modifications than the iPhone 15 and ought to be an thrilling launch certainly. We’ve gathered all the most important information, leaks, and studies for you right here. Let’s dive in.
iPhone 16: launch date
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Apple has formally introduced its subsequent occasion, “It’s Glowtime,” for September 9, 2024. That is once we anticipate the iPhone 16 line, the Apple Watch Collection 10, and extra to be introduced.
Traditionally, preorders for the brand new telephones will open up early Friday morning, with the telephones launched the next Friday. The September 9 announcement date doubtlessly means September 13 for preorders and September 20 for normal availability.
Apple is anticipating huge issues from the iPhone 16. After seeing iPhone gross sales slide 10% earlier this yr, it’s hoping to see a rebound for the remainder of 2024. The rationale? Every new cellphone will doubtless ship with a number of the introduced Apple Intelligence options in iOS 18.
iPhone 16: attainable value
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Although it was anticipated that the iPhone 15 lineup would have a value enhance, that didn’t occur except for the iPhone 15 Professional Max mannequin, which now begins at $1,200 for the 256GB model (there isn’t any longer a 128GB variant). That was the one one within the iPhone 15 lineup that noticed a “value enhance,” if you wish to name it that.
Apple’s iPhone 15 element costs have been the very best, although it absorbed these elevated manufacturing prices. Nevertheless, that won’t occur in 2024, so we might even see a slight enhance for all iPhone 16 fashions.
How a lot of a attainable enhance has but to be seen.
iPhone 16: design
iPhone 16 dummy fashions Sonny Dickson
There will probably be some huge modifications coming for the iPhone 16 lineup, most notably the usual iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
Earlier studies from MacRumors prompt three totally different prototype designs for the iPhone 16, however the latest leak appears to verify which one we’re getting.
For the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, Apple is departing from the diagonal digital camera format that it has been utilizing for the previous few years. As a substitute, it’s going with the vertical pill-shaped digital camera island, just like what we first noticed on the iPhone X, besides a bit larger as a result of lenses and sensors.
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Any design modifications for the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max could also be much less drastic, as Apple appears to be fairly content material with the modifications it launched with the iPhone 15 Professional. Nevertheless, a newer leak from dependable tipster Ice Universe means that the iPhone 16 Professional will cut back the bezel much more drastically, making it a good narrower bezel cellphone than the Samsung Galaxy S24. This will translate to 1.2mm bezels on the iPhone 16 Professional and 1.15mm bezels on the iPhone 16 Professional Max.
My buddy confirmed that iPhone 16 Professional will cut back bezel, surpassing Galaxy S24 to turn into the world’s narrowest bezel cell phone, which appears to be very near the dream kind.
— ICE UNIVERSE (@UniverseIce) June 2, 2024
Experiences have prompt that the brand new Seize button will probably be capacitive slightly than bodily, and it’ll sit flush with the cellphone’s body. Since it’s rumored to be a Seize button, it is going to most definitely have the ability to act as a digital camera shutter button, although it may be customizable, just like the Motion button. Since it’s prone to be touch-based, it might carry out totally different actions by gestures like swiping. The Seize button may be utilized by third-party builders for their very own digital camera apps.
This rumor might have simply been confirmed by leaker Majin Bu, who uploaded two photographs of the iPhone 16 Professional case, displaying bigger digital camera cutouts. The bigger digital camera sensor would correspond with the rumor that the 12MP ultrawide digital camera is about to get replaced with a bigger 48MP Sony IMX903 sensor (extra on that under).
Within the iPhone 16 Professional case the digital camera module is big pic.twitter.com/i847JqKSwt
— Majin Bu (@MajinBuOfficial) Could 28, 2024
The wi-fi antenna will probably be relocated to the opposite aspect of the iPhone to accommodate this new capacitive button. The Motion button might also be bigger on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions than on the present iPhone 15 Professional.
Though iPhone design modifications are by no means confirmed till Apple reveals off the cellphone itself, it appears to be like like these rumors have some weight to them. In early April, well-known Apple leaker Sonny Dickson shared photographs of iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional dummy fashions — reiterating the entire design modifications talked about above.
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A YouTube channel referred to as EFTM obtained some steel dummy models of what seems to be the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, and iPhone 16 Professional Max. Dummy models are necessary for case and accent producers as a result of they make their equipment based mostly on these models in order that they’re out there in time for the precise product launch. The dummy models that EFTM has obtained seem to verify the vertical digital camera modules for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
Nevertheless, there’s a notable element on the entire dummy models: the Motion and Seize buttons. Each of those buttons might present up throughout the complete iPhone 16 lineup. Earlier rumors hinted on the Motion button coming to the usual iPhone 16 fashions, however the Seize button was beforehand reported to be solely on the Professional fashions. Assuming these fashions are correct, that seems to be altering.
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Because the Seize button will probably be positioned on the telephones’ backside proper edge, it’s one other indication that Apple might take away the bodily SIM card fully in different nations. Apple moved to eSIM-only within the U.S., beginning with the iPhone 14 line, and now it appears to be like like that change may very well be coming to different elements of the globe.
Sonny Dickson / X
Talking of dummy models, extra leaked in late April when Sonny Dickson uploaded the above photograph to X (previously Twitter). These specific dummies are extra complete-looking and supply a good clearer view of what this yr’s iPhone lineup ought to seem like.
Extra not too long ago, some leaked molds appeared on-line from ShopSystem. The molds present the MagSafe charging ring being barely smaller within the iPhone 16 fashions when positioned side-by-side with the iPhone 15 fashions. If correct, it means that Apple has tried to slim down the MagSafe parts to cut back the magnetic materials required, although the general place of the magnets hasn’t modified. That’s a very good factor as a result of it signifies that older MagSafe equipment ought to proceed to work with the brand new fashions.
iPhone 16 Professional dummy models Sonny Dickson
So far as colours go, it appears to be like like the bottom mannequin iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 plus will probably be coming in 5 colours as an alternative of seven as was beforehand rumored. The 5 colours look like white, black, blue, inexperienced, and pink. Nevertheless, it’s necessary to notice that the colours seem way more saturated than the earlier iPhone 15 lineup, which might be seen as a very good factor.
For the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max, it seems to have 4 attainable colours: white titanium, black titanium, pure titanium, and an all-new bronze coloration that may very well be referred to as “desert titanium.” This new coloration would change the blue titanium possibility that the iPhone 15 Professional got here in, nevertheless it appears to be like like a far cry from the rose gold that was initially rumored. One other leak from Majin Bu on X appears to verify this new darkish gold coloration with a close-up of the digital camera ring.
Majin Bu on X
Apple can also be upgrading the microphones on the iPhone 16 lineup to have the next signal-to-noise ratio than earlier iterations. This implies the system will have the ability to hear you extra clearly, which might assist with Siri requests. With studies suggesting iOS 18 could have extra generative AI options, a extra correct Siri could be a lot wanted.
iPhone 16: shows
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There could also be some modifications coming for the show sizes of the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. Nevertheless, the usual iPhone 16 variants will keep the identical.
The iPhone 16 Professional show could also be elevated to six.3 inches, up from the present 6.1 inches. The bigger iPhone 16 Professional Max will probably be 6.9 inches slightly than 6.7 inches.
With the smaller iPhone 16 Professional getting a bump in measurement, it will make it attainable to suit a bigger telephoto digital camera lens in it, permitting for the 5x optical zoom that debuted within the iPhone 15 Professional Max. Attributable to measurement constraints of the 6.1-inch measurement, the tetraprism lens wasn’t capable of match, however a 6.3-inch chassis can change that.
Apple will probably be shrinking bezels throughout the board, although the actual advantages will probably be extra apparent on the Professional fashions. A brand new report has surfaced revealing that Apple is utilizing a brand new show know-how referred to as Border Discount Construction (BRS), which lets suppliers cut back the scale of these black borders across the display screen.
We might additionally get brighter shows and extra environment friendly energy consumption, as Apple is reportedly utilizing microlens know-how within the iPhone 16 OLED panels.
A report from The Elec means that the iPhone 17 line will mark the primary time that each one fashions, together with the bottom ones, will use LTPO OLED panels with ProMotion and always-on screens. Sadly, the bottom iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus ought to nonetheless have a 60Hz refresh charge show.
Additionally from The Elec, mass manufacturing of the OLED display screen for the iPhone 16, 16 Plus, and 16 Professional are set to start following Apple’s remaining approval. The iPhone 16 Professional Max OLED display screen remains to be being tweaked by Apple and will not get remaining approval for manufacturing till the top of June. The panels ought to be manufactured by three OLED suppliers, together with Samsung Show, which is able to make panels for all 4 iPhone 16 fashions; LG, which is able to make panels for the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max; and BOE, which will probably be accountable for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
iPhone 16: specs
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For the bottom mannequin iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, we should always see an A17 chip. Nevertheless, this is probably not the identical A17 Professional chip that’s at present contained in the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max. Apple will doubtless use a lower-cost course of for the standard “A17” chip that would attain the usual iPhone 16 fashions.
Analyst Jeff Pu thinks Apple will go a special route and easily use the A18 and A18 Professional names for the brand new chips. This may imply that each one iPhone 16 fashions would have some variation of an A18 chip slightly than going with an A17, which may very well be seen as a “last-generation” chip.
This information appeared to have been confirmed with the same report from one other supply in July.
Whereas overheating was a problem with launch-day iPhone 15 fashions, it’s mentioned that Apple has labored on a brand new thermal design to assist with warmth dissipation. This may very well be within the type of a graphene thermal system for the bottom iPhone 16 fashions, whereas the iPhone 16 Professional may need a steel battery casing. Proper now, the iPhone makes use of copper for the warmth sinks, however graphene has larger thermal conductivity.
There have been rumors that Apple has been working by itself in-house 5G modem chips, however that received’t occur in 2024. As a substitute, the iPhone 16 Professional might use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 modem for quicker and extra environment friendly 5G connectivity. Nevertheless, the base-model iPhone 16 will proceed to make use of the Qualcomm X70 chip that’s at present within the iPhone 15. The iPhone 16 might even have Wi-Fi 7 know-how that would get not less than 30 gigabits per second, as much as 40Gb/s.
iPhone 16: cameras
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As talked about earlier, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus could have a dual-camera format introduced in a vertical pill-shaped digital camera island. The iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max seem to have the identical triple-lens digital camera format as has been used prior to now few years.
A current leak has given us all the small print on the digital camera specs for each the usual iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional fashions.
For the iPhone 16’s dual-camera system, we now have a 48MP main huge digital camera with f/1.6 aperture and optical high quality 2x zoom. The ultrawide lens will nonetheless have 0.5x zoom, however the aperture will probably be improved to f/2.2 from f/2.4. This may imply higher lowlight photographs with the ultrawide digital camera. And Apple seems to be including in a macro pictures mode for the common iPhone 16 fashions for the primary time.
With the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max, the triple-lens digital camera system will include a 48MP main huge digital camera with f/1.78 aperture, a 12MP telephoto lens with f/2.8 aperture and 5x optical zoom (together with the smaller Professional), and a brand new 48MP ultrawide digital camera with f/2.2 aperture (up from f/2.4) for higher lowlight efficiency.
iPhone 16: battery life
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We might lastly see higher battery life with the iPhone 16 Professional sequence, because it’s rumored to make use of stacked battery know-how. With stacked batteries, it can lead to larger capability and longer lifespans. This will additionally convey quicker 40W wired and 20W MagSafe charging speeds.
Apple has lengthy lacked in charging velocity. If the iPhone 16 actually addresses this, we may very well be in for a correct deal with.
Based on @MajinBuOfficial, we even have a good suggestion of what to anticipate from the batteries in the complete iPhone 16 lineup, with modifications throughout the board. The leaker claims that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional Max could have bigger batteries than their predecessors. Nevertheless, the iPhone 16 Plus will get the quick finish of the stick and really have much less battery capability than earlier than. The Professional Max mannequin may even not use the L-shaped battery design and can return to an oblong form like on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus.
Based on an earlier leak by @MajinBuOfficial, who has a combined report with Apple leaks, the usual iPhone 16 could have 3,561mAh (up from the iPhone 15’s 3,349mAh), the iPhone 16 Plus battery will are available in at 4,006mAh (down from the iPhone 15 Plus’ 4,383mAh), and the iPhone 16 Professional Max will probably be 4,747mAh (up from the iPhone 15 Professional Max’s 4,422mAh). It additionally seems that the iPhone 16 Professional could have 3,577mAh (up from iPhone 15 Professional’s 3,274mAh), in response to a report on MacRumors.
iPhone 16 professional battery mh3577and iPhone 16 professional max 4747mh https://t.co/vqyUGfwSSX pic.twitter.com/i7JBLUJ7Nl
— repair Apple 🍏 (@lipilipsi) Could 29, 2024
In July, we heard information iPhone Professional customers have been ready for. This yr’s Professional fashions might get a charging improve, with each the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max supporting 40-watt wired charging and 20W MagSafe charging. This may be the primary vital battery charging change in a few years.
iPhone 16: software program and updates
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On the extremely anticipated Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) in June, Apple unveiled the groundbreaking iOS 18. One of the vital eagerly awaited options of iOS 18 is the introduction of Apple Intelligence, an modern AI replace to revolutionize how we work together with our gadgets. From reworking how we compose messages and emails to enhancing how we handle our photograph libraries and talk with Siri, Apple Intelligence guarantees to raise the consumer expertise to unparalleled heights.
Past the combination of Apple Intelligence, iOS 18 is about to ship many new and enhanced options. These embrace an array of contemporary customization instruments to personalize the consumer expertise, an overhauled Management Middle designed to supply even better comfort, and a revitalized Photographs app that guarantees to make organizing and reliving reminiscences extra charming than ever earlier than. With iOS 18, Apple is not only introducing an replace — it’s shaping the way forward for consumer interplay with know-how.
The primary official model of iOS 18 is predicted to be launched for older appropriate iPhones just a few days earlier than the official launch of the iPhone 16 fashions.
