iPhone 16: all the leaks and rumors about Apple’s next smartphone

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Apple should beryllium spinning up the iPhone 16 enactment soon, and portion rumors astir its phones don’t thin to leak similar certain other phones I know, immoderate details person trickled retired of the halls of Cupertino and its proviso chain. Physically, we mostly expect them to look, well, similar iPhones, but arsenic the archetypal caller Apple smartphones aft the WWDC debut of Apple Intelligence, the changes could beryllium much than meets the eye.

On the outside, rumors suggest Apple has redesigned the camera bump connected the vanilla iPhone and that it’s adding a caller DSLR-like, pressure-sensitive camera fastener to astatine slightest the iPhone 16 Pro. It’s besides expected that the 16 Pro models volition get somewhat larger screens than their counterparts successful the iPhone 15 lineup.

All iPhone 16s are expected to support the on-device AI features of Apple Intelligence. That means they’ll need immoderate boosted specs to alteration things similar section AI summaries and penning tools, arsenic good arsenic apt much demanding capabilities similar those offered by Apple’s Image Playground.

The iPhone 16, dummy.
In what’s go an yearly tradition, we present person the non-working iPhone 16 “dummy units” — created for lawsuit and accessory makers — from perennial leaker Sonny Dickson. In summation to showing the caller colors, we tin besides spot the camera bump aligned vertically successful what should beryllium the last size and signifier of the instrumentality Apple announces this fall.
The iPhone 16 lineup could get much artillery life.
Apple is bumping up the vigor density of the artillery successful its adjacent iPhones, letting them past longer betwixt charges, claims proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo.
Kuo notes that much density means much heat, truthful Apple is encasing them successful stainless steel, which helium says volition besides mean they’re easier to regenerate — something the EU present requires.
Apple mightiness effort “electrically induced adhesive debonding” connected iPhone batteries.
The Information reports the reversible adhesive could beryllium tried connected 1 iPhone 16 and perchance each iPhone 17, replacing the stretchy propulsion tabs seen successful each teardown.
iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens called it a “cool idea,” adjacent if we’ll request to spot however it works successful practice. Here’s a demo from adhesives elephantine Tesa, which is besides processing approaches utilizing lasers, heat, solvents, and magnets.

“Debonding connected Demand”
Image: tesa
A roseate (iPhone) by immoderate different name.
Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo posted that the institution plans to merchandise the iPhone 16 Pro successful “black, achromatic (or silver), grey (I deliberation it’s earthy titanium), rose.”
The non-Pro models, helium predicts, volition travel successful the aforesaid hues arsenic the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, though helium notes the colors could “look different,” contempt having the aforesaid name.
Just however redesigned are we talking, here?
Majin Bu, who had early pictures purported to beryllium of the iPhone 15’s USB-C larboard and, much recently, evident images of vertical camera modules for the iPhone 16, posted these mock-ups that whitethorn amusement the adjacent models’ updated design.
Rumors that Apple would power to a vertical layout for the cameras spell backmost at slightest a year.
Is the iPhone 16 getting a redesigned camera module?
Leaker Majin Bu has shared an representation of what they assertion is the caller camera module connected the iPhone 16. This plan appears to stack the camera sensors vertically, akin to the module connected the iPhone 12. The leak lines up with some different caller rumors, too, which besides bespeak a displacement distant from the diagonal camera placement we’ve seen connected the past fewer iPhones.
MacRumors made mockups of the iPhone 16 Pro.
It seems Apple’s adjacent Pro phones volition look a batch similar the iPhone 15 Pro, but they’ll seemingly person bigger screens and a caller capacitive fastener for capturing video.
Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max volition person adjacent larger displays.
Next year’s iPhone 16 Pro show volition leap from 6.1 inches (iPhone 15 Pro) to 6.3 inches, portion the Pro Max volition leap from 6.7 (iPhone 15 Pro Max) to 6.9 inches, accidental analysts Kuo and Young.
Kuo says the other abstraction volition marque country for periscope lenses with amended zoom performance, besides expected connected this year’s iPhone 15 Pro Max.