This 12 months’s Apple iPhone 14 will hit sooner than final 12 months, in line with Mark Gurman, essentially the most correct Apple data leaker on the planet, and picked up by pals at The Verge (opens in new tab). Whereas the iPhone 13 made a late-September look, the brand new Apple iPhone 14 will present up simply after the U.S. Labor Day vacation at a September seventh occasion. The cellphone will go on sale every week from the next Friday, on September 16th. 

Apple is anticipated to go giant at this 12 months’s iPhone launch, by which we imply the brand new mannequin might be a large-screen cellphone and never an replace to the Apple iPhone 13 mini. Rumors counsel Apple will launch an Apple iPhone 14 and a large-screen iPhone 14 Max.

A separate “Professional” class will see additional upgrades to processing, digicam, and different options: The Apple iPhone 14 Professional and the iPhone 14 Professional Max. The telephones with out the “Professional” designation are anticipated to stay on final 12 months’s Apple A15 Bionic chip. If an upgraded A16 chip is introduced, it could solely be used on these “Professional” units.

Evaluation: signal of excellent provide

Final 12 months’s cellphone launch got here only a bit later in September, however might have slipped even additional as a result of provide chain points. We have now seen a lot of cellphone launches late this summer time and have heard little grievance about provide issues. Regardless that the Apple iPhone 14 is launching solely every week or so sooner than final 12 months, we nonetheless take this as a great signal that the trade is discovering a stability to provide customers with out climbing costs or inflicting enormous delays.

Fairly a little bit of details about the brand new Apple iPhone 14 has leaked out already, and you’ll take a deep dive into each tidbit at our explainer. Apple can also be anticipated to announce a brand new Apple Watch eight on the September occasion. You possibly can learn our opinions of one of the best Apple Watches presently out there.