iPhone 16 rumors: Each single factor we all know to this point

The iPhone 16 rumors are flooding in – and we’re interested by the way it’ll be totally different from the iPhone 15.

We’re listening to tons whispers a few doable 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 doable new bronze colour. Right here’s a compilation of all of the credible rumors about subsequent yr’s iPhone 16 line.

iPhone 16 launch date

You might be questioning, “When will the iPhone 16 be announced?” The iPhone 16 launch date is anticipated to be a while in September, presumably within the second or third week (e.g., Sept. 10 or Sept. 17).

After Apple has its entire shebang of an occasion showcasing the next-generation handsets, the iPhones usually ship a few week or two later.

Up to now, Apple has deviated from this cadence attributable to 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 in the course of the first half of September yearly.

iPhone 16 design

Let’s dive into arguably crucial facet of the iPhone’s design: the display.

There haven’t been any important adjustments to the show sizes for the reason that iPhone 12, however in accordance with dependable leaker Unknownz21, the upper-tier iPhone 16 fashions are going to be a bit bit extra unwieldy in your fingers.

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 about the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus? Will they get a screen size 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 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 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 can have bigger screens. 

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Nevertheless, he provided barely totally different numbers: 6.2 inches and 6.8 inches. What may very well be the explanation behind the discrepancy? In keeping with MacRumors, it’s “likely due to the difference between actual display area and viewable display area.”

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 the UI smoother, zippier and seamless.

Lastly, in accordance with MacRumors, citing in style Weibo leaker “Instant 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, in accordance with 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 interior footprint of the circuitry inside, permitting for thinner bezels (with out sacrificing something vital elements like show efficiency, for instance).

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

Actually, in accordance with in style leaker IceUniverse, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions can 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 can 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 info of essentially the most premium next-generation iPhone:

In keeping with 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 characteristic an Motion Button — not simply the iPhone 15 Professional variants. The present-gen iPhone 15 Professional fashions’ Motion Button will 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, nevertheless, the rumor mill states that Apple will add extra performance to the Motion Button.

Seize Button

The Motion Button was all the craze for the iPhone 15 sequence, nevertheless, in accordance with MacRumors and The Data, a new Seize Button can be one of many greatest promoting factors for the iPhone 16. Reportedly positioned slightly below the ability button, the Seize Button is a camera-focused characteristic that may do the next:

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

• Permits customers to deal with topics

• Prompts the shutter button

Whereas MacRumors and The Data each concur that Apple is testing a “capture 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 Data claims it is each.

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Stable-state buttons

Apple reportedly deliberate on introducing solid-state buttons with the iPhone 15 Professional fashions, however as an alternative, we bought a customizable Motion Button. For the uninitiated, solid-state buttons aren’t buttons per se – they’re panels that characteristic haptic suggestions sensations that simulate actual button presses (Consider the iPhone SE sequence’ Residence button). On the plus aspect, the solid-state buttons aren’t completely out of the image. In keeping with 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 extra 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 3 — up from one.)

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

Renders

Primarily based on all of the design notes listed above (in addition to some particulars from leaker Majin Bu), digital artist Aaron Carpenter gave us an excellent have a look at what the iPhone 16 might seem like:

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As you possibly can see, you will discover the Motion Button, which was neglected of the lower-tier fashions on the present era iPhone, now current on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.

iPhone 16 colours

In keeping with 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 anticipated to come back in the identical colorways.

The iPhone 16 Professional, alternatively, is anticipated to supply a bronze colorway, in accordance with a Weibo-based leaker. The bean spiller claims that this may substitute the Blue Titanium colour provided for the iPhone 15 Professional, which contradicts stories that this colour can be changed by a rose-like colour.

As MacRumors identified, it is doable that each leakers might have seen the identical colour, however interpreted them in a different way.

iPhone 16 Apple Intelligence

Much 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 seemingly help 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 bought an opportunity to check Apple Intelligence on my iPhone 15 Professional Max).

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

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

iPhone 16 cameras

Apple debuted a brand new zoom lens with a “tetra-prism” design on the iPhone 15 Professional Max, which implies that engineers discovered a approach 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.

Nevertheless, in accordance with 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 extensive lens can have a bigger sensor measurement, permitting for extra mild gathering for higher photographs and movies in low-light circumstances.

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

Pu acknowledged tthe iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions will even characteristic 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.

The ultrawide digicam is ideal for taking panorama photographs, permitting you to seize extra surroundings. Nevertheless, 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 might 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? In keeping with Apple Insider, it will increase mild seize and offers wider dynamic vary, so Evening Mode ought to get a candy enhance.

Lastly, it is value declaring 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, in accordance with a picture leak on X, Apple has rearranged the rear cameras for its entry-level gadgets from a diagonal configuration to a stacked design.

iPhone 16 battery life

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

All of the iPhone 16 fashions have some kind 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.

Understand 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 elements 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 fingers.

It is also value noting that Kuo claimed that Apple is growing the the iPhone 16 Professional Max’s “battery energy 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. In keeping with Pu, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are anticipated to hitch the 8GB of RAM bandwagon, too.

Storage

In keeping with information aggregator account “yeux1122” from Naver, a Korean weblog, the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max will characteristic 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

In recent times, Apple has adopted the pattern of placing final yr’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 bought the A16 Bionic chip, the identical contained in the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max. Nevertheless, the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max bought outfitted with the new A17 Professional chips.

If this sample continues, it ought to comply with 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 it will likely 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 might take a battery life hit. It’s because the next-generation chip will provide super efficiency good points on the expense of energy effectivity.

Nevertheless, one other rumor tells a distinct story.

In keeping with an alleged iOS 18 code leak from MacRumors, the whole iPhone 16 line will get an A18 chip. Nevertheless, there’s an opportunity that Apple will use a “Pro” identifier title to distinguish from the usual and Professional fashions (e.g., A18 chip and A18 Professional).

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

In keeping with Pu (through 9to5Mac), the iPhone 16 Professional will include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 modem, which might 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 you should definitely bookmark this web page.