iPhone 16: Launch date, specs, options, rumors

Now that the iPhone 15 lineup is on cabinets, and now we will formally begin fascinated about the iPhone 16. Naturally, any rumors or leaks you see this early are going to be fluid at finest–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 stated, right here’s what probably the most prolific leakers and tipsters say we will count on in regards to the iPhones coming within the fall of 2024.

Replace June 28: A new report from The Data says that Apple is anticipated to debut a brand new, easier-to-replace battery within the iPhone 16.

When is the latest iPhone popping out?

The iPhone lineup is all the time introduced at an occasion in September and normally ships per 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 standard day for the iPhone and Apple Watch occasion is the second Tuesday in September, which this 12 months is September 12. So we will count on the iPhone 16 line to be introduced on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, with preorders beginning possible on Friday, September 13, and at the least some fashions delivery on September 20.

iPhone 16 value

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’s going to price the identical because the iPhone 15 line, at the 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 could price $1,099 and the iPhone 16 Professional Max may 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 the next price ticket.

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iPhone 16 colours

When Apple launched the iPhone 15, it launched a wholly new shade palette. The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus are available 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 considerations the iPhone 16 Plus, although we count on its smaller sibling to have the identical colours. It says it is going to be accessible 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 area grey and gold colours of outdated.

iPhone 16 options

Design and show

There are few particulars in regards to the iPhone 16 lineup up to now, besides that it ought to look, nicely, like an iPhone. The complete iPhone 15 line now has the Dynamic Island, so count on that pill-shaped cutout on the iPhone 16 fashions as nicely. Some rumors say Apple has discovered a option to put a number of the Face ID sensors underneath the show, so the iPhone 16 Professional fashions might have an excellent smaller digital camera cutout than the usual fashions.

Ming-Chi Kuo and Ross Younger each report that the show measurement on the Professional fashions shall be getting larger–about 0.2 inches measured diagonally–with a barely taller facet ratio. Meaning the iPhone 16 Professional may 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 refined digital camera {hardware} however can even add a little bit of display screen actual property. A later report in regards to the iPhone 16 show provide chain corroborated the notion of an iPhone 16 (at the least some fashions) with slimmer bezels. A mock-up by ZoneOfTech reveals that the iPhone 16 Professional Max could possibly be larger than the iPhone 15 Professional Max. ZonOfTech doesn’t state the way it bought the scale and specs used to create the mock-up.

Should you had been hoping to get an always-on show with out shopping for an iPhone 16 Professional or Professional Max, you’re most likely out of luck. In response to a report in The Elec, Apple will follow normal OLED screens for the iPhone 16 fairly than the LPTO screens within the Professional fashions so that they gained’t assist ProMotion or always-on. Nevertheless, the iPhone 17 will reportedly get the higher-end sceens.

On the again of the iPhones, you must also count on to see a bigger digital camera array on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions because of the inclusion of a periscope super-zoom telephoto lens on each fashions and different new digital camera tech. Nevertheless, 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 shall be a Seize Button, in response to a number of studies. It will likely be on the identical facet as the facility button, situated decrease, so it may be activated with the index finger of your proper hand when holding the telephone in panorama orientation. It will likely be contact and pressure-sensitive, permitting customers to zoom in by swiping and to regulate focus with a tender press whereas triggering the shutter with a full press.

The iPhone 15 Professional fashions had been initially anticipated to introduce new solid-state buttons, however more moderen rumors counsel they merely gained’t be prepared in time and can seem on the iPhone 16 Professional as a substitute. Regardless, all iPhone 15 Professional fashions are anticipated to characteristic an Motion button instead of the mute change, which ought to broaden to your entire iPhone 16 lineup in 2024.

Specs and options

With every new iPhone comes a brand new A-series processor, and you’ll wager the development will proceed subsequent 12 months. The iPhone 16 Professional will subsequently possible characteristic the A18 Professional processor, whereas the non-Professional iPhone 16 fashions might undertake a cut-down model of the A17 Professional that debuted within the iPhone 15 Professional, though latest rumors have urged Apple will rebrand that chip as an A18. It’s far too early to invest about subsequent 12 months’s chip’s options and efficiency, but it surely’s unlikely that subsequent 12 months’s non-Professional iPhones may have the identical Professional chip as this 12 months. A rumor in March 2024 claimed the A18 Professional chip could be bodily bigger, with extra space devoted to an improved Neural Engine with the efficiency to assist extra “edge AI” options (AI options that run on gadget fairly 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% greater and the iPhone 16 Plus an outlier with 9% much less capability. Battery life is an element of many parts, 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 shall 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 tremendously 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 monitor report 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) might take spatial pictures and movies meant for viewing on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple already launched the flexibility to report spatial movies on the iPhone 15 Professional so it is sensible that Apple will broaden this characteristic 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 making an attempt 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 placement accuracy.”

As well as, Pu studies that we will count on Wi-Fi 7 within the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. Wi-Fi 6E solely arrived within the Professional fashions this 12 months, so it’s attainable 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 characteristic USB-C as a substitute 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 trying to make a very port-free iPhone appear to have fizzled out.

A rumor in November 2023 claimed that the iPhone 16 Professional may have a brand new battery design with a metallic casing as a substitute 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 might see a dip to 4,006mAh.

This new battery is anticipated to be considerably simpler to switch with the intention to higher adjust to a brand new EU regulation, in response to The Data. Customers would nonetheless must open up their iPhones, which isn’t precisely straightforward or quick, however as soon as that’s carried out you shouldn’t need to wrestle with adhesive strips.