Here’s our first look at the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus

The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are official, with Action Buttons inherited from the 15 Pro and a caller look for the camera bump. We’ve conscionable gotten immoderate hands-on clip with them successful Cupertino, California, pursuing the announcement, and the large quality is that colour is back, baby: they look great.

The rear cameras are present stacked vertically connected a smaller pill-shaped camera bump. This statement is amended suited for capturing spatial video, lest we each hide astir the Vision Pro. It’s besides conscionable a caller look for the regular iPhone, and Apple likes to propulsion 1 successful each fewer years to shingle things up.

They travel with the aforesaid size screens arsenic their predecessors: a 6.1-inch show connected the iPhone 16 and a 6.7-inch show connected the 16 Plus. Other than the once-again vertical lenses, the plan hasn’t changed overmuch — but the 16s bash travel successful a fewer caller and much vivid colors. They’re overmuch much saturated than the washed-out colors of the 15 series, with vibrant caller ultramarine, teal, and pinkish options joining achromatic and black.

But these non-Pro iPhone 16 models besides get an all-new feature: the “camera control” that acts arsenic a dedicated shutter fastener and a mode to alteration assorted settings some successful the Camera app and elsewhere. The caller fastener comes alongside immoderate different camera upgrades to the 16, which present has the “equivalent” of 4 lenses contempt lone having 2 lenses.

There are different updates that are little evidently visual, too. The iPhone 16 besides comes with the caller A18 chip, which is supposedly 30 percent faster than past year’s model, and is supposedly much rugged and little prone to scratching oregon shattering. That’s each bully news, though the caller spot volition substance astir erstwhile Apple Intelligence arrives, which whitethorn not beryllium until 2025. A caller “glowed-up” Siri is simply a centerpiece of Apple’s suite of AI features, but it’s 1 that astir radical volition person to hold a small spot longer for.

The 16 and 16 Plus volition beryllium disposable adjacent week starting astatine $799. Will the caller buttons marque them worthy the upgrade? That’s what I’m going to find retired arsenic soon arsenic I tin get my hands connected them for longer than an afternoon.