iPhone 16 launch: New iPhone launch date, specs, options and extra

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, the newest leak exhibits a darker black coloration and the Blue Titanium changed with one thing that has a really brown or bronze hue. A earlier rumor instructed “Desert yellow” because the identify for this coloration, however there doesn’t look like a lot yellow in it.

Sonny Dickson

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iPhone 16 circumstances

Numerous third-party case leaks are circulating main as much as the launch of the iPhone 16, and most have a strategic cutout on the proper facet for the brand new Seize button (see beneath for extra info). Nevertheless, Apple’s personal circumstances are mentioned to have a design that eliminates the necessity for a clunky cutout, as a substitute utilizing a thinner membrane that enables swipes and touches.

iPhone 16 options: what new options are coming to the iPhone 16?

Design and show

There are few particulars in regards to the iPhone 16 lineup up to now, besides that it ought to look, effectively, like an iPhone. Your complete iPhone 15 line now has the Dynamic Island, so count on that pill-shaped cutout on the iPhone 16 fashions as effectively. Some rumors say Apple has discovered a strategy to put among the Face ID sensors beneath the show, so the iPhone 16 Professional fashions might have a good smaller digicam cutout than the usual fashions.

Ming-Chi Kuo and Ross Younger each report that the show dimension on the Professional fashions will probably be getting larger–about 0.2 inches measured diagonally–with a barely taller facet 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 dimension is reportedly essential to accommodate extra subtle digicam {hardware} however may also 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 (not less than some fashions) with slimmer bezels. A mock-up by ZoneOfTech exhibits that the iPhone 16 Professional Max might be larger than the iPhone 15 Professional Max. ZonOfTech doesn’t state the way it bought the size and specs used to create the mock-up.

In the event you had 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 line with a report in The Elec, Apple will stick to normal OLED screens for the iPhone 16 fairly than the LPTO screens within the Professional fashions so that they gained’t help ProMotion or always-on. Nevertheless, the iPhone 17 will reportedly get the higher-end screens.

On the again of the iPhones, you must also count on to see a barely bigger digicam 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 digicam tech. Nevertheless, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are rumored to be getting a smaller digicam 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, based on a number of studies. It is going to be on the identical facet as the facility button, positioned decrease, so it may be activated with the index finger of your proper hand when holding the cellphone in panorama orientation. It is going to be contact and pressure-sensitive, permitting customers to zoom in by swiping and to regulate focus with a comfortable 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 recommend 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 develop to your entire iPhone 16 lineup in 2024.

Processor

With every new iPhone comes a brand new A-series processor, and you may guess the pattern will proceed subsequent 12 months. The iPhone 16 Professional will subsequently doubtless 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 current rumors have instructed 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 Apple Intelligence.

Battery and charging

The battery capacities of the iPhone 16 lineup are reportedly very comparable 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:

• iPhone 16: 3561mAh (+6%)
• iPhone 16 Plus: 4006mAh (-9%)
• iPhone 16 Professional: 3355mAh (+2.5%)
• iPhone 16 Professional Max: 4676mAh (+5%)

A leak in August claims the iPhone 16 Professional will get a extra important 9 % bump (3,577 mAh vs 3,274 mAh).

A rumor in November 2023 claimed that the iPhone 16 Professional would have a brand new battery design with a steel casing as a substitute of black foil and a brand new connector. This new battery is predicted to be considerably simpler to switch with the intention to higher adjust to a brand new EU regulation, based on The Info. Customers would nonetheless have to open up their iPhones, which isn’t precisely straightforward or quick, however as soon as that’s executed you shouldn’t must wrestle with adhesive strips.

Charging speeds on Professional fashions might get a lot quicker, with one rumor saying to count on 40W wired and 20W MagSafe wi-fi charging.

Digicam

In line with the most recent info, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus can have a barely wider aperture on the Extremely Large digicam and help macro images for the primary time.

The iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max will get an improve 48MP Extremely Large digicam, and the 5x telephoto digicam will not be unique to the Professional Max—will probably be discovered on each Professional fashions.

All iPhone 16s will get a brand new Digicam button on the decrease proper facet, so it sits beneath your index finger if you maintain your cellphone in panorama orientation. The button will have the ability to launch whichever digicam or video app you want, and can use capacitive contact sensing and haptics. Builders can select what to do if you half-press the button or slide your finger backwards and forwards alongside it, for instance.

The iPhone 16 Professional fashions will have the ability to shoot at 4K as much as 120fps (the present restrict is 60fps) and all fashions ought to have the ability to pause and resume recording video within the Digicam app.

Apple will add help for JPEG-XL, providing higher high quality and compression than HEIC.

5G, RAM, and different specs

Apple has been laborious 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 improvement and testing, which has been a problem for Apple and each different firm making an attempt to make top-tier 5G know-how. 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 doable Apple makes use of it for an additional 12 months, however there are already a dozen Android telephones with Wi-Fi 7 and it could 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 carry a bump in RAM (8GB vs 6GB) and WiFi speeds (6E vs 6) to match the iPhone 15 Professional fashions and help Apple intelligence.

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.

iPhone historical past

iPhone 16 would be the newest in a protracted line of smartphones from Apple. Under you could find hyperlinks beneath to our evaluations of all iPhone fashions, together with the most recent era, which is iPhone 15 and iPhone SE 3 (we’re additionally anticipating a launch of the iPhone SE 4 and iPhone 17 – however not till 2025). Discover out about Apple’s September occasion particulars and methods to watch the Apple September occasion dwell stream; or for different Apple merchandise, be taught extra about all of the new Apple merchandise coming this 12 months and when is the subsequent Apple occasion. You may also need to try our recommendation on when is the perfect time to purchase a brand new iPhone, our iPhone shopping for information, greatest iPhone offers and our comparability of each iPhone that’s available for purchase immediately.

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8. iPhone 5s (2013) evaluation
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10. iPhone 6 Plus (2014) evaluation
11. iPhone 6s (2015) evaluation
12. iPhone 6s Plus (2015) evaluation
13. iPhone SE (1st era; 2016) evaluation
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