Monday November 7, 2022 12:55 p.m. PST by Juli Clover
There's astir a twelvemonth to spell until we get caller iPhone 15 models successful September 2023, but we've been proceeding rumors for months now. It's looking similar the iPhone 15 models could get much notable updates than we saw for the iPhone 14, including features galore iPhone users person wanted for years.
We've rounded up immoderate of the champion features coming to the iPhone 15 that we've heard truthful acold truthful MacRumors readers cognize what to look guardant to.
USB-C Port
2023 is expected to people the extremity of the Lightning larboard for the iPhone, with Apple transitioning to USB-C. That means you'll beryllium capable to complaint your modern Mac, iPad, and iPhone each with the aforesaid connector.
Apple isn't precisely swapping to USB-C successful bid to marque your beingness much convenient, it's making the alteration due to the fact that the European Union is demanding it. iPhones sold successful Europe request to person USB-C ports by 2024, truthful Apple either needs to marque a worldwide plan alteration oregon make peculiar iPhones for Europe.
Apple has confirmed it will comply with section regulations, and rumors bespeak that Apple volition marque the alteration successful 2023.
Solid State Volume and Power Buttons
Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo precocious said that Apple mightiness adhd coagulated authorities measurement and powerfulness buttons to the iPhone 15 alternatively than carnal buttons, which would beryllium akin to the trackpad connected Macs and the iPhone 7's Home button. The haptic feedback would mimic the consciousness of a fastener property connected the coagulated button, replacing the mechanical fastener press.
Using coagulated authorities buttons would apt support against h2o ingress and could let Apple to supply amended h2o resistance. Using haptic feedback for buttons would necessitate Apple to adhd caller Taptic Engines.
Dynamic Island for All Models
Apple introduced the Dynamic Island for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, portion the cheaper iPhone 14 models proceed to usage a notch. With the iPhone 15, the full lineup is expected to get the Dynamic Island, truthful if you privation entree to the Dynamic Island but don't privation to ammunition retired for a Pro iPhone, hold for the iPhone 15.
Same Sizes
We haven't heard rumors astir notable plan changes for the iPhone 15 lineup arsenic of yet, truthful it's looking similar we're going to get the aforesaid sizes. The iPhone 15 and 15 Pro volition measurement successful astatine 6.1 inches, and the iPhone 15 Plus and Pro Max volition beryllium 6.7 inches.
Periscope Lens Technology
We've been proceeding astir Apple's enactment connected periscope lens technology for years now, and 2023 mightiness beryllium the twelvemonth that it's introduced. Periscope lenses, which are already utilized by immoderate Android smartphone manufacturers, person optical zoom capabilities that transcend the zoom scope disposable with a modular telephoto lens.
With a periscope lens, Apple could connection 5x oregon adjacent 10x optical zoom, up from 3x successful the existent iPhone 14 Pro models.
A Name Change?
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has said that Apple might replace the "Pro Max" mentation of the iPhone 15 with a caller high-end "Ultra" model. That would beryllium successful enactment with the Apple Watch Ultra, and it could springiness Apple an excuse to bounds definite features to the highest-end iPhone, similar periscope lens technology.
Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo has already said that the periscope lens could beryllium limited to the largest iPhone.
3-Nanometer A17 Chip
The iPhone 15 Pro models mightiness beryllium the archetypal to diagnostic a 3-nanometer spot from Apple supplier TSMC. 3nm spot exertion is expected to summation processing show by 10 to 15 percent, portion besides reducing powerfulness depletion by up to 30 percent.
If Apple does usage a 3nm A17 chip, it would beryllium a notable betterment implicit the A16. Only the Pro models got the A16, which is built connected a 4nm process, and the A17 is likewise expected to beryllium constricted to the iPhone 15 Pro. Standard iPhone 15 models whitethorn spot an upgrade to the prior-generation A16.
More RAM
The iPhone 15 Pro models could get 8GB RAM, up from 6GB, possibly to enactment caller capabilities similar periscope lens technology.
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For much connected the iPhone 15, marque definite to bookmark and travel our iPhone 15 roundup, which is updated connected a regular ground with each of the rumors that we hear.
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