Apple is anticipated to debut its iPhone 15 line in September, however that hasn’t stopped leakers from speculating about subsequent yr’s iPhone 16 collection.

We’ve already reported on rumors hinting that the iPhone 16 Professional and 16 Professional Max could possibly be the largest iPhones but, and new CAD photographs obtained by 9to5Mac corroborate that suggestion. Now, although, we’re additionally listening to that the bottom iPhone 16 might borrow a key design function from the iPhone 12 line.

In keeping with Twitter leaker @URedditor, the iPhone 16 will sport a vertical digital camera structure, moderately than the diagonal setup used on each iPhone for the reason that iPhone 13. “It will make the gadget immediately recognizable as the newest mannequin” in 2024, @URedditor writes.

The bottom mannequin iPhone 16 may have a vertical digital camera structure, versus diagonal on iPhone 15. It will make the gadget immediately recognizable as the newest mannequin.At the moment, an iPhone 12-style design is in testing, although there may be one other design as nicely, similar structure.Could 22, 2023

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Regardless of the rumored addition of a 48MP predominant lens on the bottom iPhone 15, Apple’s subsequent vanilla flagship will reportedly keep on with the identical digital camera association because the iPhone 14, so it figures that the corporate might shake-up the looks of the iPhone 16 by, nicely, going again to what it is aware of.

In fact, this wouldn’t be the primary time Apple has seemed to its personal product historical past for design inspiration. The corporate had seemingly deserted the iPhone 4’s straight-sided aesthetic with the iPhone 6, earlier than returning to it with the iPhone 12. The iPhone 15, in the meantime, will reportedly be harking back to the iPhone 11 by having barely curved edges (see the photographs beneath). 

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It also needs to go with out saying that the iPhone 16 received’t use the identical cameras because the iPhone 12. The latter makes use of two 12MP predominant shooters, and though the iPhone 14 likewise employs that now-outdated setup, the aforementioned 48MP predominant lens anticipated to reach on the iPhone 15 will certainly make its method to the iPhone 16, too.

As for what different options the iPhone 16 might introduce, we’re anticipating the telephone – or its Professional-level siblings, not less than – to sport solid-state (i.e. haptic) quantity and energy buttons. The iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Extremely had been broadly rumored to get solid-state buttons, however Apple analysts lately poured water on these claims, including that the function is extra more likely to arrive with the iPhone 16 line owing to its technological complexity.

Along with solid-state energy buttons, the iPhone 16 Professional will reportedly get a periscope lens and a bigger show, too, which has just about killed our pleasure for the iPhone 15 Professional.

In different phrases, the iPhone 16 Professional could possibly be a smaller (and probably cheaper) model of the much-rumored iPhone 15 Extremely, which is anticipated to reach this yr rather than an iPhone 15 Professional Max. We’ll have to attend till September for affirmation of that telephone’s existence, although, so keep tuned to TechRadar for the newest information on what’s more likely to be this yr’s hottest smartphone launch.