Apple has turned the leafage connected the Apple calendar to present the next iPhone. To nary one's surprise, the iPhone 16 is adjacent model, coming aft the iPhone 15. The lineup includes the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. The handsets made their debut astatine the company's yearly September hardware lawsuit successful Cupertino, California. (New Apple Watches were announced too.)
The latest iPhones person a fewer caller tricks to differentiate them from their predecessors—the Action Button is present disposable connected each iPhones successful this lineup, and there's a caller Camera Control fastener dedicated to snapping photos. On the whole, galore of the improvements are successful the software—iOS 18—which is also disposable to download adjacent week if you person a compatible device. The iPhone 16 models are designed to instrumentality vantage of all the Apple Intelligence features announced earlier this year, however, you won't spot galore of these until the iOS 18.1 update arrives successful October.
I've compiled everything you request to cognize astir the iPhone 16 scope below. Preorders for the iPhone 16 commencement September 13, and present are the prices: iPhone 16 is $799, iPhone 16 Plus is $899, iPhone 16 Pro is $999, and iPhone 16 Pro Max is $1,199. They'll beryllium disposable successful stores starting September 20.
The iPhones 16
The iPhone 16 looks antithetic from prior iPhones—the camera statement is vertical alternatively than diagonal—but otherwise, they're identical. The iPhone 16 Pro scope amended resembles their predecessors but is somewhat bigger: the iPhone 16 Pro has a 6.3-inch surface (up from 6.1 inches), and the iPhone 16 Pro Max is 6.9 inches (up from 6.7 inches). The phones aren't dramatically bigger, but Apple has shaved the borders astir the surface to maximize surface space.
Every iPhone successful this lineup has the Action Button, which Apple debuted past year. This replaces the mute switch. you tin customize the Action Button to toggle connected a flashlight, a Shortcut, oregon immoderate different setting. You tin adjacent acceptable to to relation precisely similar the mute power if you miss the mute power (though it's acold little satisfying).
Apple says the ceramic solid successful these models is 50 percent tougher than the archetypal procreation of Ceramic Shield, and there's a caller manufacturing process that makes the assemblage colors richer. The iPhone 16 comes successful pink, teal, ultramarine, white, and black.
But determination is simply a caller fastener gracing the iPhone's hardware: Camera Control. This is similar a carnal shutter fastener connected cameras—a hard property takes a photo, a agelong property takes a video, and you tin present marque a airy property to alteration a cleaner viewfinder without each the idiosyncratic interface elements. Within this airy press, you tin descent your digit connected the Camera Control fastener to swipe done zoom levels; if you bash a treble airy press, you tin determination done different modes. On the Pro models, you tin usage this airy property to support the absorption connected a circumstantial subject.