Apple’s purported iPhone 16 collection of smartphones may characteristic a brand new exterior design, based on a report. Mockups of the rear and aspect of the successor to the iPhone 15 created by MacRumors present completely different design choices reportedly thought of by Apple for the handset that’s anticipated to debut subsequent 12 months. The iPhone 16 might characteristic a redesigned digicam module with a capacitive seize button, together with an Action button — the latter changed the mute swap for the primary time on the iPhone 15 Pro fashions.
MacRumors’ mockups of the iPhone 16, created from ‘early pre-production’ inner design particulars from Apple, present three completely different designs for the upcoming handset. The first one reveals the handset with a vertically aligned rear digicam format, much like the iPhone X. Apple hasn’t used a vertical digicam format for the reason that iPhone 12, so altering the format on the iPhone 16 will assist the handset stand out from its predecessors.
MacRumors’ mockups of the three iPhone 16 prototypes
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The first mannequin in yellow additionally reveals the iPhone 16 outfitted with a unified quantity rocker, and an Action button. A second mockup displaying the cellphone in pink reveals the cellphone outfitted with mechanical quantity buttons and a digicam module that resembles the iPhone 12.
A 3rd mannequin reveals the purported cellphone in a black colourway that features the identical digicam format and quantity because the pink mannequin, however with a bigger Action button, and a seize button — each of those may very well be capacitive as a substitute of mechanical, based on the report.
Apple is reportedly planning to incorporate the Action button on all its iPhone 16 fashions subsequent 12 months, based on latest reviews. This 12 months, solely the (*16*)iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max featured the programmable button, however all 4 fashions featured the Dynamic Island that arrived on the iPhone 14 Pro fashions final 12 months.
It stays to be seen whether or not Apple will launch the iPhone 16 with capacitive buttons for the Action button and the devoted digicam button. Apple was beforehand anticipated to equip the iPhone 15 collection with capacitive buttons, however shelved its plans as a consequence of improvement challenges, based on reviews. As it’s significantly early within the improvement cycle, it’s possible that Apple’s purported plans for the iPhone 16 might additionally change or evolve earlier than the designs are finalised.
