Apple iPhone 16: Each single rumor we all know to this point

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Numerous Apple iPhone 16 rumors have been flooding in – and so they’re serving to us decode the thriller of the way it’ll be totally different from iPhone 15.

We’re listening to tons whispers a couple of potential digicam redesign for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus fashions.

The iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max are additionally getting some digicam upgrades – in addition to a potential new bronze coloration. (It is reportedly referred to as Desert Titanium.) Right here’s a compilation of all of the credible rumors about subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 16 line.

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iPhone 16 rumors: Fast abstract

• The IPhone 16 will reportedly have a brand new seize button to provide customers easy accessibility to photograph and video capabilities.

• The bezels on the next-generation iPhone 16 will reportedly be thinner than ever.

• The iPhone 16 Professional fashions will drop the Blue Titanium colorway in favor of a brand new bronze coloration referred to as “Desert Titanium.”

• Evening Mode and ultrawide lenses on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions are anticipated to get a lift.

• The iPhone 16 digicam format is getting a redesign from its present diagonal place to a stacked one

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iPhone 16 launch date

You might be questioning, “When will the iPhone 16 be introduced?” The iPhone 16 launch date is predicted to be a while in September. To additional nail down a particular date, Apple often hosts the iPhone occasion on the second week on September, usually on a Tuesday.

As such, our prediction is that the iPhone 16 occasion will possible fall on Sept. 10 alongisde the brand new Apple Watch Collection 10 and Apple Watch Extremely 3. This prediction has been corroborated by a late August report from Bloomberg, which found that Apple is planning on having its huge product launch occasion on Sept. 10.

In reality, as of Aug. 26, Apple has reportedly wrapped up filming for the iPhone 16 launch occasion.

After Apple has its entire shebang of an occasion showcasing the next-generation handsets, the iPhones usually ship a couple of week or two later. In different phrases, they are going to possible hit retailer cabinets on Sep

Prior to now, Apple has deviated from this cadence because of reported manufacturing hindrances (e.g., provide chain points). For instance, the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 14 Plus shipped in October, however usually, we get new iPhones unveiled a while throughout the first half of September yearly.

iPhone 16 design

Let’s dive into arguably an important facet of the iPhone’s design: the display screen.

There haven’t been any important adjustments to the show sizes because the iPhone 12, however based on dependable leaker Unknownz21, the upper-tier iPhone 16 fashions are going to be a bit of bit extra unwieldy in your arms. For an outline of how the iPhone 16 could look, listed here are some renders:

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As you’ll be able to see, you may discover the Motion Button, which was disregarded of the lower-tier fashions on the present era iPhone, now current on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus. Extra on that later.

Show

The iPhone 16 Professional will reportedly have a 6.3-inch show whereas the iPhone 16 Professional Max will pack a 6.9-inch panel. You might be questioning, “What in regards to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus? Will they get a display screen measurement bump, too?” The reply is probably going no. The lower-tier fashions will reportedly have the identical show sizes as their predecessors.

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iPhone 15 display screen sizes

• iPhone 15 – 6.1 inches

• iPhone 15 Plus – 6.7 inches

• iPhone 15 Professional – 6.1 inches

• iPhone 15 Professional Max – 6.7 inches

iPhone 16 display screen sizes (rumored)

• iPhone 16 – 6.1 inches

• iPhone 16 Plus – 6.7 inches

• iPhone 16 Professional – 6.3 inches

• iPhone 16 Professional Max – 6.9 inches

Ross Younger, a widely known show analyst and Apple leaker, was the primary to say that the iPhone 16 Professional fashions may have bigger screens. 

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Nonetheless, he provided barely totally different numbers: 6.2 inches and 6.8 inches. What might be the explanation behind the discrepancy? Based on MacRumors, it’s “possible as a result of distinction between precise show space and viewable show space.”

One other rumor we’re listening to is that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will proceed to have 60Hz refresh-rate shows. This can be a little disappointing contemplating different telephones available in the market a minimum of have 90Hz screens, making navigating by way of the UI smoother, zippier and seamless.

Lastly, based on MacRumors, citing well-liked Weibo leaker “Immediate Digital,” the iPhone 16 Professional will reportedly have a 20% brighter show for SDR content material. In different phrases, the iPhone 16 Professional will reportedly emanate as much as 1,200 nits of brightness.

Thinner bezels

The iPhone 16 will even reportedly have slimmer bezels, based on a report from The Elec (h/t MacRumors). Apple is tipped to be utilizing one thing referred to as Border Discount Construction (BRS) know-how, which reduces the inner footprint of the circuitry inside, permitting for thinner bezels (with out sacrificing something essential points like show efficiency, for instance).

Thinner bezels signifies that the iPhone 16 sequence ought to yield extra display screen actual property for customers.

In reality, based on well-liked leaker IceUniverse, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions may have the world’s narrowest bezels.

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A tipster from Weibo concurred with IceUniverse’s declare, including that the iPhone 16 Professional sequence may have the next bezel measurements:

For reference, the iPhone 15 Professional fashions’ bezels have a thickness of about 1.71mm, give or take.

Dimensions

Due to yet one more leak from IceUniverse, it seems that we now have data of essentially the most premium next-generation iPhone:

Based on the aforementioned measurements, the iPhone 16 Professional Max is larger than its predecessor: 1mm thicker, 3.1mm taller, and 0.88mm wider.

Motion Button

A report from MacRumors claims that each single mannequin within the iPhone 16 line will function an Motion Button — not simply the iPhone 15 Professional variants. The present-gen iPhone 15 Professional fashions’ Motion Button could be programmed to launch a variety of apps and capabilities, together with Flashlight, Digital camera, Silent Mode, Voice Memo, Focus, Magnifier, Translate (coming to iOS 17.2), and a variety of accessibility options.

When iPhone 16 drops, nonetheless, the rumor mill states that Apple will add extra performance to the Motion Button.

Seize Button

The Motion Button was all the fad for the iPhone 15 sequence, nonetheless, based on MacRumors and The Info, a new Seize Button will probably be one of many largest promoting factors for the iPhone 16. Reportedly positioned slightly below the facility button, the Seize Button is a camera-focused function that may do the next:

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• Zoom out and in of images/movies with swiping gestures

• Permits customers to concentrate on topics

• Prompts the shutter button

Whereas MacRumors and The Info each concur that Apple is testing a “seize button” on the iPhone 16, each aren’t on the identical web page on whether or not it is a mechanical button or a capacitive one. MacRumors says it is the latter, however The Info claims it is each.

The brand new seize button will reportedly be featured throughout all iPhone 16 fashions.

Strong-state buttons

Apple reportedly deliberate on introducing solid-state buttons with the iPhone 15 Professional fashions, however as an alternative, we acquired a customizable Motion Button. For the uninitiated, solid-state buttons aren’t buttons per se – they’re panels that function haptic suggestions sensations that simulate actual button presses (Consider the iPhone SE sequence’ Dwelling button). On the plus facet, the solid-state buttons aren’t completely out of the image. Based on revered Apple leaker and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is engaged on debuting solid-state buttons on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions as an alternative.

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Kuo added that these solid-state buttons will add two further Taptic Engines, which is able to assist hearth off tangible suggestions to customers. (If that is true, the variety of Taptic Engines within the iPhone 16 will enhance to a few — up from one.)

Based on a tip from Weibo (through MacRumors), the Motion Button on the iPhone 16 Professional will probably be a solid-state button and sit flush in opposition to the chassis. To make room for this modification, Apple will reportedly transfer the mmWave antenna to the left of the iPhone 16 Professional versus the correct. This Weibo tip comes from a leaker with the moniker “Immediate Digital,” a bean spiller that reportedly has an correct monitor report, based on MacRumors.

iPhone 16 colours

Based on a leak dropped on X, the iPhone 16 is available in 5 colours: white, black, blue, inexperienced, and pink.

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The iPhone 16 Plus is predicted to come back in the identical colorways.

The iPhone 16 Professional, however, is predicted to supply a bronze colorway, based on a Weibo-based leaker. The bean spiller claims that it will substitute the Blue Titanium coloration provided for the iPhone 15 Professional, which contradicts studies that this coloration will probably be changed by a rose-like coloration.

As MacRumors identified, it is potential that each leakers could have seen the identical coloration, however interpreted them otherwise.

A late July leak from Sonny Dickson did not present the brand new coloration that may supposedly substitute Blue Titanium, nonetheless, it does reveal the opposite three colours that may probably be unveiled in September for the iPhone 16 Professional fashions: white, black, and a pure grey coloration.

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However then, Aug. 16, Sonny Dickson revealed all of the colorways of the iPhone 16 Professional, together with the reported bronze coloration. It is positively not a “rose-like coloration.”

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The colour is reportedly referred to as “Desert Titanium.”

iPhone 16 Apple Intelligence

Just like the iPhone 15 sequence, Apple Intelligence, the Cupertino-based tech big’s new suite of AI options introduced at WWDC 2024, the one telephones that possible assist Apple Intelligence are the iPhone 16 Professional and the iPhone 16 Professional Max.

With iOS 18, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions are anticipated to get new AI perks that enhance the likes of Siri, Safari, Mail, Messages, and extra. (I acquired an opportunity to check Apple Intelligence on my iPhone 15 Professional Max).

This is a information on the Apple Intelligence options that may possible be current in time for the iPhone 16 launch.

Different Apple Intelligence options, like Genmoji and Picture Playground, will possible be delayed.

iPhone 16 cameras

Apple debuted a brand new zoom lens with a “tetra-prism” design on the iPhone 15 Professional Max, which signifies that engineers discovered a method to “fold” the shooter in order that it nonetheless has telephoto capabilities with out taking on an excessive amount of house. This new digicam will increase the Professional Max’s optical zoom from 3x to 5x.

Nonetheless, based on Digital Chat Station (DCS), a bean-spiller on the Chinese language social media website Weibo, each the iPhone 16 Professional and the iPhone 16 Professional Max will get the brand new tetra-prism telephoto digicam.

DCS additionally added that the iPhone 16 Professional Max particularly is getting the Sony IMX903 sensor, an improve from the Sony IMX803 sensor. Because of this the iPhone 16 Professional Max broad lens may have a bigger sensor measurement, permitting for extra mild gathering for higher images and movies in low-light circumstances.

Based on Jeff Pu, a tech analyst from Haitong Worldwide Securities (a Hong Kong funding agency), the ultrawide cameras are getting a lift, too.

Pu said the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions will even function a 48-megapixel ultrawide digicam with higher mild gathering. As such, digicam efficiency in dimmer environments ought to enhance. Because it stands now, the iPhone 15 Professional fashions have a 12MP ultrawide digicam. A new late August report from Apple Insider confirms this rumor.

The ultrawide digicam is ideal for taking panorama images, permitting you to seize extra surroundings. Nonetheless, in comparison with the primary digicam, the ultrawide lens tends to ship a slight drop in crispness and sharpness. If this rumor is true, the brand new 48-megapixel ultrawide digicam could ameliorate this minor foible.

Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple will improve the rear cameras on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions, introducing a stacked design. What’s going to a stacked design do? Based on Apple Insider, it will increase mild seize and supplies wider dynamic vary, so Evening Mode ought to get a candy enhance.

Lastly, it is price mentioning that the iPhone 16 Professional, as we reported in April, will allegedly deal with lens flare and ghosting points through the use of anti-reflective coating on the cameras.

So far as the iPhone 16 is anxious, based on a photograph leak on X, Apple has rearranged the rear cameras for its entry-level units from a diagonal configuration to a stacked design. Plus, Apple Insider claims that the iPhone 16’s ultrawide digicam will get improved aperture (upgraded from f/2.4 to f/2.2), permitting for higher low-light seize.

iPhone 16 battery life

As we reported in early April, a Weibo leaker by the identify of “OvO Child Sauce OvO” seemingly unveiled the brand new new battery sizes throughout the iPhone 16 lineup:

All of the iPhone 16 fashions have some form of enhance from two to 6 % besides for the iPhone 16 Plus, which reportedly has a discount of practically 9 % in comparison with the iPhone 15 Plus.

Remember the fact that a rise in battery measurement does not essentially imply that the system will ship longer battery life. And in the identical vein, a battery measurement discount does not essentially result in shorter runtimes. There are different points at play (the show’s effectivity, for instance). So we cannot know for positive how battery life is affected till we get the telephones in our arms.

It is also price noting that Kuo claimed that Apple is growing the the iPhone 16 Professional Max’s “battery vitality density,”

iPhone 16 specs

The iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max are geared up with 8GB of RAM whereas the lower-tier fashions, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Professional Max, are caught with their predecessors’ 6GB of RAM. If that bums you out, don’t fear. Based on Pu, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are anticipated to hitch the 8GB of RAM bandwagon, too.

Storage

Based on information aggregator account “yeux1122” from Naver, a Korean weblog, the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max will function choices that supply 2TB of storage.

That’s double the present max storage capability of the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max.

Chipset

Lately, Apple has adopted the pattern of placing final 12 months’s chip into the 2 entry-level fashions whereas the Professional fashions, the Professional and the Professional Max, get the new-generation chip. For instance, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus acquired the A16 Bionic chip, the identical contained in the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max. Nonetheless, the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max acquired outfitted with the new A17 Professional chips.

If this sample continues, it ought to observe that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus get the A17 Professional whereas the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max get the A18 chips. Pu hinted that that is how will probably be for the iPhone 16 line, hinting that the A17 Professional will reportedly be much less environment friendly. In different phrases, the iPhone 16 fashions geared up with this chip could take a battery life hit. It’s because the next-generation chip will provide super efficiency good points on the expense of energy effectivity.

Nonetheless, one other rumor tells a distinct story.

Based on an alleged iOS 18 code leak from MacRumors, the complete iPhone 16 line will get an A18 chip. Nonetheless, there’s an opportunity that Apple will use a “Professional” identifier identify to distinguish from the usual and Professional fashions (e.g., A18 chip and A18 Professional).

The iPhone 16 Professional fashions will even reportedly assist Wi-Fi 7 (present fashions assist WiFi 6E). Wi-Fi 7 ought to provide zippy switch speeds that exceed 40 Gbps, quadrupling what WiFi 6E can do.

Based on Pu (through 9to5Mac), the iPhone 16 Professional will include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 modem, which may attain a 5G obtain fee of as much as 7.5 Gbps.

We’ll periodically replace this rumor hub as new iPhone 16 leaks trickle in, so make sure you bookmark this web page.