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Skipping the iPhone 15 Pro? Here's What's Rumored for iPhone 16 Pro

sw1tcher said:
I'm going to add a few more:
  • Ability to charge another iPhone without needing a USB-C cable :rolleyes:
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2 transfer speeds of up to 10Gb/s on 16/16 Plus models (special and still sold separately higher spec USB-C required), not just 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max
  • Capacitive Haptic buttons
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Reverse Wireless Charging introduces a lot of heat, and it's not by any means effective. You lose around 50%, plus it's really slow (4.5W) and you need to have the devices alligned almost perfectly for that to work.

I've tried this with Galaxy S10, Note 10, Note 20 Ultra, and S23 Ultra, it's more a gimmick because the amount of energy it can share its pretty low for any usability.
 
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A 6.3" pro would be perfect for me, along with even more rounded edges, a punch hole camera, the ability to change default sounds, the ability to delete useless apps (for me) like stocks, 1Nm chipset, 20000mah baddery!

Yep, I'll take 5 please, all in different colours.:p
 
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JPack said:
Also A18 Pro based on N3P.

Wonder when or if Apple will have satellite calling and texting like the competition.
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what are you hoping from n3p ? the jump from n3e to p will be minor, especially if they keep increasing the clocks and amount of cores...socs efficicny may get worse
 
h.gilbert said:
I wish I could skip 50 years of my life and go straight to the get the iPhone 65 Pro Pro Ultra Max Ultra
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I wish I have a redo of the past 50 years of my life so I'd have $400k annual $AAPL div from 448,000 shares worth more than $78.3m.

I'd do this by buying 16,000 $AAPL shares when it was $78.20 pre-28-for-1 split for $1.25 million.
 
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I don’t like the gap between 48mm and 120mm (equivalents); I prefer the 77mm on my 14 Pro Max.

What I’d really like is a 48mp, 75mm (or so) telephoto lens, so that they could provide crops into that - 110mm at 24mp or thereabouts, and 150mm at 12mp.
 
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t0pher said:
iPhone X to iphone15 pro max and it’s underwhelming.

I just down £1599 for a better camera & iOS 17.

If apple vision turns out to be good then spatial video may prove to be the defining factor otherwise meh

It does everything the last one did, just a little better.
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I guess it’s time for Apple to give us the next iPhone X moment, an iPhone that truly looks/feels different from the past few generations.
 
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iPhone 18 for me. I make calls and watch YouTube basically. The only reason I upgraded from a X was to save money and get a fresh battery.
 
What I'll be doing is skipping buying new and (maybe) picking up a 15 Pro Max at a discount in a year like I did for the first time with my 12 Pro Max, though the lack of a physical Sim-tray gives me pause as a traveler. Given the ever-increasing file sizes (has anyone mentioned how much extra storage all that portrait photo data saved in the background takes up?) then 512GB will be the minimum. Thankfully USB-C will relieve the headache of backing up many GBs of data through Image Capture on a regular basis.

I like the idea of an even larger iPhone next year but .2" is hardly anything to write home about. Looks like Apple will take their sweet time with a folding iPhone, unfortunately. Apple Vision looks cool but it's an at-home device and prohibitively expensive for what it offers. If I do end up getting it there's no way I would use it in a plane, like others have suggested, unless it was a private jet.

Boring but reliable has been Apple's MO for a long time now. Waiting at least 3 years before upgrading any product has worked best for me to appreciate the hardware advancements. Year-to-year the fireworks are few and far between. Titanium and the shamefully delayed USB-C (still speed limited in the non-Pros) aren't game-changers. Priming the sales pump by limiting features to Pro models is only going to increase as time goes on. iPhones have essentially been S updates for 3 years in a row.
 
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actripxl said:
What else is there? Everything else is already mature technology at this point that really offer negligible talking points.
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That’s a question for Tim Cook, not me. I don’t design phones, I just buy them :)

I want to know what he has in store for iPhone’s next "There is one more thing" moment.
 
Reading this forum from my 15 pro and excited to enjoy this phone but looking forward too. I’m not bend out of shape like most people here saying they don’t need to upgrade yearly which is true, I’m just in a position where I enjoy my device, pay it off early and trade it in before the new one comes out. 😀
 
Rumours have it they might make the iPhone even lighter and 100x their profit by replacing the titanium band with FineWoven material. The first steps towards a cradle to cradle iPhone.
 
sw1tcher said:
I'm going to add a few more:
  • Ability to charge another iPhone without needing a USB-C cable :rolleyes:
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2 transfer speeds of up to 10Gb/s on 16/16 Plus models (special and still sold separately higher spec USB-C required), not just 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max
  • Capacitive Haptic buttons
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yeah it's pretty wild how this hasnt been done yet, we saw this in hidden pieces of code since the iphone 11

I was about to buy a pair of airpods pro 2 since im trying to get back to the apple ecosystem, but realized i couldnt wirelessly charge it with magsafe using an iphone...how ****ing dumb is that
 
@Joe Rossignol Thank you for this article, Joe. I believe there is a number of possible features for the iPhone 16 Pro (& Ultra) - that were rumored for this year's iPhone 15 Pro lineup but never materialized - that you did not mention in this article. This reminds me of when things leaked in 2021 for a fully redesigned Apple Watch that turned out not to be accurate for that year, but instead it was for the 2022 Apple Watch Ultra. There is also a bunch of features that were rumored specifically for next year's Pro/Ultra that you didn't mention.

Here is a list of the aforementioned leaks/rumors, in addition to the ones you mentioned:

1. 2 TB storage option
2. Super Telephoto Periscope Lens for up to 10x to 12x optical zoom (over 300mm focal length)
3. Thunderbolt 3/4 data transfer speeds (40 Gbps)
4. 40W wired charging speed
5. 20W MagSafe charging speed
6. Significantly larger battery capacity due to the new stacked battery technology
7. Stacked camera sensor design that allows larger sensors to be used
 
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tom_uk said:
I don’t like the gap between 48mm and 120mm (equivalents); I prefer the 77mm on my 14 Pro Max.

What I’d really like is a 48mp, 75mm (or so) telephoto lens, so that they could provide crops into that - 110mm at 24mp or thereabouts, and 150mm at 12mp.
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they could have put 4 cameras in there but prolly kept it for the "ultra"
 
MacRumors said:
Larger displays: The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will be equipped with larger 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch displays, respectively, according to Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants. The devices are expected to have taller aspect ratios as part of this change. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch displays, respectively.​
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And what about the non-pro iPhones 16 and 16 Plus?

Are they staying at 6.1/6.7 or also jumping up to 6.3/6.9?
 
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