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Revealed: iPhone 16 Colors and Redesigned Camera in Leaked Image

iPhone 16 will be iPhone 12 with less plastic around the camera lenses and slightly rounder corners?

Who messed with the design team’s coffee budget?
 
I'm sorry but those are all very ugly colors. Even the black why is it glossy piano black?

In cars I feel like piano black exists to coerce you pay for an upgraded interior/trim level. Is the iPhone 16 intentionally ugly to encourage you to buy an iPhone 16 Pro?
 
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Why no AI? It should come in bits starting in October. At least the hardware will be able to support it, unlike my iPhone 15. 😋
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Just because Apple told us which features will be "delayed" and now we're being told about shiny new colors - no one cares about and those colors look like ****, at least in my eyes.

It will be interesting to see, how many AI features will make to iP15pro and lower since those features need RAM, if those features should run on the device and not in the cloud.
 
The blue color looks to be a color I’m interested in. Though I’m going to hold off on what the Pro model colors are — unless the regular 16 introduces AOD.
 
I loved the subtle colors on the 15, especially the pink and green looked so good. Wish they stuck with that type of color where the back is lighter.
 
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So the only new color is teal? Got it.

No AI until basically iOS 19? Got it. It was nothing but shareholder talk.

Seems like a good year to skip the iPhone.
 
M67 said:
I do, phone cases are ugly, hide the design of the phone and add weight and bulk.
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Also, the halfway decent cases are expensive! $20 is considered cheap for a case these days, and many of them are over $50 (and even those expensive ones have meh looks and unnecessarily add weight and bulk). By comparison, AC+ costs the equivalent of 3-4 cases, each repair/replacement cost the equivalent of 1-2 cases, and gives you the peace of mind to go with a naked phone.
 
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Not much love for the colors according to most of the comments...but at the September iPhone event, the reality distortion field will take hold and suddenly they might seem more appealing.

(maybe). tbf, need to see them in store.
 
AndiG said:
Just because Apple told us which features will be "delayed" and now we're being told about shiny new colors - no one cares about and those colors look like ****, at least in my eyes.

It will be interesting to see, how many AI features will make to iP15pro and lower since those features need RAM, if those features should run on the device and not in the cloud.
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Well, I would expect iPhones 15 Pro, having 8GB of RAM, to get the same set of AI features as iPhones 16. As AI progresses, so will the hardware running it. So we can treat iPhone 15 Pro and the whole range of iPhones 16 as AI test units. Want to play safe? See how it goes this year and wait for iPhone 17 in 2025.

For lower than 15 Pro, it gets even simpler - they will get nothing, that is no new Siri, nor AI stuff.
 
M67 said:
I do, phone cases are ugly, hide the design of the phone and add weight and bulk.
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Not the thin transparent ones. 😉 The cases also give us a camera border, so the iPhone does not lie on the camera(s) every time we put the phone on a flat surface screen up.
 
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I like the green one, but I'll wait to see it in person. People keep calling it "teal", it just looks like a forest green color to me. Maybe it's just my monitor, or maybe the blue phone right next to it is making it seem more teal than green to some people.
 
Und Eser said:
iPhone 16 will be iPhone 12 with less plastic around the camera lenses and slightly rounder corners?

Who messed with the design team’s coffee budget?
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More of a crossover between 12 and X-XS by the looks of it - flat sides and a pill-shaped vertical camera bumps.
 
xmarcuswildx said:
So the only new color is teal? Got it.

No AI until basically iOS 19? Got it. It was nothing but shareholder talk.

Seems like a good year to skip the iPhone.
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AI will be coming in “portions”, starting with iOS 18.1 this October. We can treat it as a work in progress, like Apple Maps.
 
Reminiscent of X but not as nice… but it’s cheaper to manufacture without the chrome trim around the cameras and we all know Timmy loves that.
 
Most people here will immediately put the new phone in a case, which all but hides the color outside of cleaning.

I think the actual colors will look much better with the finished product. I am more concerned about usage and ability than I am what color the phone is.
 
Interesting selection, but honestly moat people use cases so think about coordinating the color of the phone you select with the case you choose. You on see the color of phone through the camera cut out of the case.
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Not the thin transparent ones. 😉 The cases also give us a camera border, so the iPhone does not lie on the camera(s) every time we put the phone on a flat surface screen up.
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They also add a lip to the screen. I lay my phone face-down 99% of the time and don't want to lay it directly on the screen.

The biggest bit is I don't have treat my phone like a newborn.

Apple_Robert said:
I think the actual colors will look much better with the finished product.
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The 15 line sure didn't.
 
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