iPhone 15: All the Biggest Rumors About Apple's Next Phone - CNET

The iPhone 15 lineup apt won't get until the autumn of 2023, but determination are plentifulness of questions astir what to expect from Apple's next-generation phone. Will the iPhone 15 person a USB-C port? Will Apple summation iPhone prices successful 2023? Will it adjacent beryllium called the "iPhone 15"? No 1 extracurricular of Apple knows for sure, but the rumor mill volition surely provender our curiosity until Apple throws the adjacent iPhone event. Here are immoderate of the biggest and astir credible rumors we've seen truthful far, to overgarment a representation of what we whitethorn spot from the iPhone 15. 

iPhone 15 design: Embracing USB-C charging

The buzziest plan rumor truthful acold involves the iPhone's charging port, fixed the European Union's ruling that iPhones sold successful the portion volition request to switch to a USB-C larboard by 2024. The question is whether Apple volition power each iPhone models to USB-C oregon conscionable those sold successful the EU. Apple already modifies iPhone models regionally, arsenic it has done with the iPhone 14: The US mentation has an electronic SIM, portion different variants clasp the SIM slot. 

But Avi Greengart, an expert astatine Techsponential, believes Apple has bully reasons to determination each iPhones to USB-C moving forward. "There are larger ecosystem, security, and accessory considerations with the power/data connector, truthful I deliberation it is much apt that Apple moves each iPhones [globally] to USB-C successful the iPhone 16 timeframe to comply with European regulations," Greengart said. 

iPhones person had Lightning ports since the iPhone 5 successful 2012. Android phones typically person the somewhat larger USB-C.

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iPhone 15 design: Dynamic Island expands to each models

Apple is apt to proceed selling 4 iPhone models with the iPhone 15 lineup. Rumors constituent to a mostly akin plan crossed the board, but that the iPhone 14 Pro's shape-shifting cutout, known arsenic Dynamic Island, is acceptable to marque its mode crossed each models. 

That rumor comes from show expert Ross Young, who besides said successful a September tweet that he's not expecting basal iPhone 15 models to person a higher refresh complaint similar Apple's Pro iPhones due to the fact that the proviso concatenation can't enactment it. 

Read more: iPhone 14 Pro's Most Eye-Catching Feature Feels Like It's Winking astatine Something Else

iPhone 15: Solid-state buttons travel to pro iPhone 15 models

Noted Apple perceiver Ming-Chi Kuo, an expert with TF International Securities, expects Apple to differentiate further betwixt its basal and Pro models successful the coming years. One mode he's expecting that to hap is by giving the iPhone 15 Pro models solid-state measurement and powerfulness buttons alternatively of the modular keys contiguous connected today's devices, helium wrote successful a tweet in October.

The solid-state buttons, which Kuo says volition beryllium akin to the location fastener recovered connected the iPhone SE and iPhone 7, mimic the consciousness of pressing a fastener with the assistance of haptic feedback. The evident vantage of this benignant of fastener is that it besides protects against h2o getting in. 

iPhone 15 Power: Increased RAM for pro models

According to Taiwanese probe steadfast TrendForce, Pro models of the iPhone 15 lineup volition get a bump up successful RAM to 8GB from 6GB to complement the anticipated A17 Bionic chipset. Base models volition proceed to person 6GB RAM, according to TrendForce. This rumor is besides seemingly backed up by a probe study from expert Jeff Pu of Haitong International Securities, according to a MacRumors article, which referenced Pu's report.

iPhone 15 camera: Periscope-style telephoto lens arrives 

Yet different Kuo prediction has been making the rounds, but this clip it's astir the iPhone 15's camera. The analyst forecasts that the iPhone 15 Pro Max volition person a periscope-style telephoto lens. This benignant of telephoto lens allows for higher optical zoom levels, with Kuo forecasting a 6x optical zoom could get successful the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The optical zoom connected the iPhone 14 Pro Max is constricted to 3x, which lags rivals specified arsenic the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's 10x optical zoom. 

Read more: The iPhone 14 Pro's Camera Upgrade is Bigger Than You Think

iPhone 15 price: Up, up and away?

Prices person dramatically accrued since the archetypal iPhone arrived successful 2007. And that whitethorn hap again successful 2023 with the iPhone 15, but not successful the mode you mightiness think. The terms of the regular iPhone 15 is presently expected to stay the same, according to analysts who antecedently spoke with CNET. 

However, the precocious bounds of the terms scope could beryllium pushed higher if rumors astir a luxe iPhone 15 Ultra crook retired to beryllium true. The rumored Ultra exemplary could perchance regenerate the iPhone 15 Pro Max adjacent year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes. This falls successful enactment with predictions from Kuo, who expects Apple to differentiate further betwixt the iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max models. US prices presently scope from $829 for the entry-level iPhone 14 exemplary (128GB) each the mode up to $1,599 for the highest-end iPhone 14 Pro Max with 1TB of storage.

Read more: What Apple Could Do With iPhone 15 Prices successful 2023

iPhone 15: Launch and merchandise timeline

Apple holds its yearly iPhone lawsuit successful September astir each year, truthful we'd expect the timeline to stay the aforesaid for the iPhone 15. New iPhones typically get released soon thereafter, usually the Friday of the pursuing week. Sometimes Apple volition stagger merchandise dates for circumstantial models, particularly erstwhile introducing a caller plan oregon size. So it's imaginable that the iPhone 15 lineup volition person much than 1 merchandise date.

Here's what we know: 

• Apple tends to clasp its events connected Tuesdays oregon Wednesdays. Apple's iPhone 14 lawsuit was held connected Wednesday Sept. 7, portion its iPhone 13 lawsuit was held connected Tuesday, Sept. 14.
• iPhone merchandise dates are typically a week and a fractional aft Apple's announcements. 
• In general, caller iPhones are released connected a Friday, astir the 3rd week of September. For the iPhone 13, preorders began Sept. 17 and the phones went connected merchantability Sept. 24.

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