The iPhone 16 Isn’t Out Yet, and There’s Already a Reason to Wait for the iPhone 17

Apple doesn’t usually advertise the magnitude of representation it’s plopping into its caller iPhones. But this latest rumor-mongering suggests skipping the iPhone 16 and waiting a procreation for the iPhone 17 mightiness beryllium worthy it if you’re feeling jealous implicit the Pixel 9/9 Pro‘s representation configuration. This year’s Google Pixel devices travel with 12GB and 16GB betwixt the entry-level and Pro models, respectively. Apple is rumored to travel suit with much RAM in adjacent year’s iPhone release.

The speculation comes from Weibo, the Chinese societal web wherever leaks reign supreme. The station is from the “Mobile telephone spot expert” cited by Apple blogs before. When translated into English, the station reads:

If you privation to alteration AI iPhone, maybe 2025 iPhone 17 is simply a bully choice. This year’s [iPhone 16] has lone 8GB of memory, chiefly AI connected the unreality side. Next year’s [iPhone 17] has 12GB of representation and much borderline AI applications. For those who privation to alteration iPhone with limited budget, of course, section tyrants request not see it.

I’m not definite who the tyrants this station refers to are, though everything other I’m speechmaking present makes sense. Google bumped up this year’s representation offerings successful its Pixel flagships due to the fact that AI is the sanction of the game. And it’s casual to judge that Apple would travel suit successful this mode since it’s astir a twelvemonth down the remainder of the manufacture successful hopping connected the AI bandwagon. 

As I said, the annoying portion is that Apple doesn’t instantly advertise however overmuch representation is wrong its devices the mode the Android satellite does. In fact, I don’t adjacent find retired until an Apple blog helps uncover it. The existent iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max has 8GB of RAM for high-resource processing, which is 4 little than what the base-model Pixel 9 offers. Apple’s hardware runs differently, though, and since it owns everything it programs, it’s tweaked for representation absorption a small otherwise than Android phones. 

Still, with Google bumping up its full lineup by 4GB, Apple mightiness see doing the same, particularly arsenic it moves much of Apple Intelligence onto devices.

Apple Intelligence is inactive a burgeoning conception among users successful the walled garden. None of the features are unrecorded yet, arsenic we expect them to debut formally with the motorboat of the iPhone 16. Apple Intelligence is not adjacent disposable successful the nationalist iOS 18 beta. We cognize that Apple volition instrumentality a hybrid attack to Apple Intelligence, wherever immoderate processing is done on-device, and the remainder pings the cloud. We besides cognize that Apple is heavy touting the privateness and information of its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) servers. 

We’ll find retired much soon. Apple volition denote the iPhone 16 connected Sept. 9 astatine its Glowtime event.