iPhone 16 Still Coming in September Despite Delayed Apple Intelligence Rollout

[MacRumors]

Apple will launch the iPhone 16 series within its traditional September timeframe this year, despite Apple Intelligence set to be absent in the first public release of iOS 18.

Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says his sources tell him that the iPhone launch will occur around the same time as last year, with Tuesday, September 10 suggested as a possible launch day candidate.

Apple will ship the new iPhone lineup with its latest iOS 18 operating system, but users will not get Apple's initial set of AI features, collectively dubbed Apple Intelligence, until the release of iOS 18.1 a few weeks later in October.

Apple and its investors are counting on Apple Intelligence to be a major draw that will attract new and upgrading iPhone customers, particularly since only the Pro models in the current iPhone 15 lineup are capable of powering the new features. But the company is not about to delay the launch of the iPhone 16 series just to coincide with the availability of Apple Intelligence.

Gurman notes that ahead of the 2011 launch of the iPhone, Apple did choose to postpone the device's release from its then-usual June timing to October, in order to align it with the availability of iCloud and Siri, which were new online services at the time. This year, however, Gurman does not see the delayed arrival of Apple Intelligence as being a big enough issue to change Apple's hardware launch plans, especially given that the tools that will be rolled out first aren't particularly game-chaining on their own.

Apple Intelligence features in the iOS 18.1 beta include Writing Tools for proofreading, rewriting, and summarizing text, a new Siri interface with Type to Siri, Mail and Messages app improvements like summarizing emails and Smart Reply, phone call recording, and audio transcription in Notes and other apps, and more.

Some of the more significant and compelling Apple Intelligence features that Apple plans to introduce at a later date include Image Playground, Genmoji, ChatGPT integration with Siri, priority notifications, and several other additions.

Article Link: iPhone 16 Still Coming in September Despite Delayed Apple Intelligence Rollout

 

[Pakaku]

Sounds like a good opportunity to buy sooner, for those of us who haven't been caught up in the whole AI trend as of late

 

[everybodylovesramen]

AI is already being exposed as a plagiarism machine that’s bad at math

it’s tanking - and just gobbles up energy/power off grids

totally unnecessary software

just a VC fundie fever dream

it’s a pizza tower of ********

 

[NapZzz]

Staggering the time is really a big decision-making mistake for .

 

[xpxp2002]

September 10 launch? That’s early. Usually iPhone launch is near the end of September.

 

[cbaca51]

Let’s get past this dud of a 16. iPhone 17 can’t come soon enough.

 

[Rogifan]

This story doesn’t make any sense. The phones will have the hardware necessary for Apple Intelligence. Why would they delay the phone’s release because the software isn’t ready? Gurman should stick to just reporting rumors. He’s no good at analyzing/interpreting things.

 

[foobarbaz]

Gurman notes that ahead of the 2011 launch of the iPhone, Apple did choose to postpone the device's release from its then-usual June timing to October, in order to align it with the availability of iCloud and Siri, which were new online services at the time.

I don’t believe that. If it was for iCloud they would have moved it back to June the next year. They just wanted their fresh lineup closer to the holiday season.

 

[wanha]

AI is already being exposed as a plagiarism machine that’s bad at math

it’s tanking - and just gobbles up energy/power off grids

totally unnecessary software

just a VC fundie fever dream

it’s a pizza tower of ********

Just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it's unnecessary or totally useless, although I understand how the average human mind gets so focused on the extremes (if it's not amazing, it must be crap) that it cannot understand that any tool is good at some tasks but not so good at others - be it a hammer, spreadsheet, encryption, or AI.

 

[gstevie]

September 10 launch? That’s early. Usually iPhone launch is near the end of September.

It’s usually announced around that time and then physically released and in hands on the Friday a week or 2 later. It will still almost certainly be physically released on a Friday.

 

[JohnRckr]

But of course, can't disappoint the investors despite having nothing to show. It's iPhone 12 all over again.

 

[coffeemilktea]

I imagine anyone who really wants AI on their phone already has ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity/HuggingFace/etc. installed on their iPhones (and none of those apps require new hardware to work). People who don't really care about AI won't care about the delay.

The investors might be a little upset though. 😝

 

[wbeasley]

those of us with three year old phones cant wait.
no matter what is does, it's going to feel better for us.
And AI is a lot of hype because it's new and other companies are trying to push it too.

there's plenty of AI already happening. just not the glitzy stuff of pipe dreams.

when I get in the car and it knows where i'm headed because it's roughly the same time and day of the week, that's an AI assist. a lot of the graphic design and video upscaling is very clever AI. the surrounding traffic in our Tesla scans and updates faster than I could look around and make an image. Speech to text has come a long way changing words already listed as context happens...

a smarter Siri (long overdue) is something to look forward to.

we are going to rely more on AI to keep us informed without remembering.
now is that good, bad or feeding the lazy? I guess we find out in a few years...

 

[hans1972]

AI is already being exposed as a plagiarism machine that’s bad at math

Me: If you draw a graph of f(x) = x, how would it look?
ChatGPT:

The graph of f(x) = x is a straight line that passes through the origin (0,0) with a slope of 1. This means that for every unit increase in x , f(x) increases by the same amount. The line extends infinitely in both positive and negative directions.

Here is a brief description of its characteristics:

• The y-intercept is at (0,0).
• The slope is 1, indicating a 45-degree angle with the x-axis.

Would you like a visual representation?

This answer probably beats 80-90% of what people in the Western world would answer.

 

[mthomas184]

Let’s get past this dud of a 16. iPhone 17 can’t come soon enough.

You already have the 16 to know its a dud!? Dude thats amazing!

 

[UliBaer]

(...)
This answer probably beats 80-90% of what people in the Western world would answer.

To the same 80-90% this answer is completely useless, cause they are clueless about the context.
For the other 10-20% the answer is also useless, cause they already know.

 

[ianrip]

The majority of AI users (Apple Int) users wont really notice if anything is missing, unless they run the same request in another app?

but if it has a new Colour then WOW

 

[Octavius8]

Do we need AI to proof read our iMessages?.
I guess a better text editor/corrector for the keyboard was too much to ask. Or a way to wake up to Spotify…. Quality of life features or fancy useless AI gimmicks?. And that’s why Apple I can say Apple cares more about investors than its users.

 

[CarpalMac]

I saw an interesting comment on "AI" the other day.

Lots of wesbites now have their content generated by this, they are easy to spot as they are usually a car crash/pile up of contrasting sources, such as articles with nonsensical content, quoting for example, values in euros then suddenly US dollars.

The take though was that these sites are generated from what is presumably manually created content, at present. What happens in the future if you have AI content derived from other AI content?

Makes you think:

 

[ghostface147]

After being on iOS 18 for a couple of weeks now, I just don't see anything software that compels me to upgrade from my iPhone 14 PM. Camera works fine for photos and videos, it opens my apps fast enough, but of course the photo library sucks.

 

[Pakaku]

Just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it's unnecessary or totally useless, although I understand how the average human mind gets so focused on the extremes (it's great or it's crap) that it cannot understand that like any tool, AI is good at some tasks and not so good at others

There are uses for it, but most of what is being sold is useless and overshadow the real uses for it

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

This story doesn’t make any sense. The phones will have the hardware necessary for Apple Intelligence. Why would they delay the phone’s release because the software isn’t ready? Gurman should stick to just reporting rumors. He’s no good at analyzing/interpreting things.

Where did you read they are delaying the phone's release? The article says the exact opposite!

 

[DC Wallaby]

Where did you read they are delaying the phone's release? The article says the exact opposite!

I think you’re missing Rogifan’s point: Apple would not delay a hardware release for something like this, so the entire story is a waste of time about a complete and total non-issue.

 

[bradman83]

September 10 launch? That’s early. Usually iPhone launch is near the end of September.

Every iPhone generation going back to at least the 7 was announced in the second week of September and released a week or two later. The sole exception was the iPhone 12 series which wasn't announced until October because of covid-related supply chain issues.

 

[Rogifan]

Where did you read they are delaying the phone's release? The article says the exact opposite!

But why is the fact they’re not delaying it even a story? Who was thinking they might delay the release of new iPhones?