Three Biggest Questions About the iPhone SE 4 - MacRumors

While we already person immoderate wide indications astir what to expect from the fourth-generation iPhone SE, determination are 3 large questions looming implicit the instrumentality astatine the existent time.

Chinese tract MyDrivers and and leaker Jon Prosser judge that the ‌iPhone SE‌ is acceptable to determination to an iPhone XR-like plan successful its adjacent incarnation, which would impact eliminating the Home fastener and adding a "notch" cutout astatine the apical of the display. The alteration seems apt since Apple's "SE" products person ever utilized the designs of older devices.

The ‌iPhone SE‌ is apt to motorboat aft the merchandise of 2023's iPhone 15 lineup. The 2 modular ‌iPhone 15‌ models are expected to diagnostic the A16 Bionic spot from this year's iPhone 14 Pro and ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ Max, truthful it seems plausible that the ‌iPhone SE‌ could besides get this spot – especially since the existent ‌iPhone SE‌ already contains the A15 Bionic chip.

The instrumentality is not expected to motorboat until 2024, and insightful show expert Ross Young recently said that Apple is mulling implicit aggregate decisions related to the next-generation ‌iPhone SE‌.

Display Size

According to Young, Apple is considering displays betwixt 5.7-inches and 6.1-inches successful size from 2 antithetic suppliers for the fourth-generation ‌iPhone SE‌. It is worthy noting that the ‌iPhone‌ XR, the instrumentality that the next-generation ‌iPhone SE‌ is purportedly based on, featured a 6.1-inch display. Moreover, Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo antecedently said that Apple was moving connected an ‌iPhone SE‌ with this nonstop show size.

Fourth-generation ‌iPhone SE‌ concept render by Ian Zelbo based connected purported leaked information

Both the 5.7- and 6.1-inch show sizes person been rumored successful the past, and Apple not yet making a last determination explains wherefore we proceed to perceive astir two antithetic sheet sizes.

Display Technology: LCD oregon OLED?

In his astir caller study connected the matter, Young said that the 5.7- to 6.1-inch displays being considered by Apple diagnostic LCD technology, conscionable similar the existent ‌iPhone SE‌, but the institution is besides weighing up simply opting for a 6.1-inch OLED display, the likes of which person been offered connected the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13.

Fourth-generation ‌iPhone SE‌ concept render by Ian Zelbo based connected purported leaked information

The ‌iPhone‌ X launched successful 2017 arsenic the archetypal OLED ‌iPhone‌, and ever since the motorboat of the ‌iPhone 12‌ successful 2020, each of Apple's main ‌iPhone‌ models diagnostic OLED displays. OLED show exertion is much costly than LCD, but it delivers amended efficiency, "true" blacks, precocious contrast, and precocious dynamic range. It is imaginable that OLED panels person travel down successful terms sufficiently for Apple to usage them for the ‌iPhone SE‌, which is positioned arsenic an entry-level device, particularly arsenic it is not acceptable to motorboat for implicit a year.

Touch ID oregon Face ID?

In moving to an all-screen plan similar the ‌iPhone‌ XR, determination would presumably nary longer beryllium abstraction for a capacitive Touch ID Home fastener successful the ‌iPhone SE‌'s bottommost bezel, truthful Apple seemingly has nary prime but to connection a ‌Touch ID‌ Side button, under-display ‌Touch ID‌ technology, oregon Face ID.

The ‌Touch ID‌ fastener connected the iPad Air

Multiple reports, including accusation from MyDrivers and Ming-Chi Kuo, suggest that Apple is readying to adhd a ‌Touch ID‌ Side fastener to the ‌iPhone SE‌. The latest iPad, ‌iPad Air‌, and iPad mini models diagnostic ‌Touch ID‌ integrated into their Top buttons, but nary iPhones connection this functionality yet. As Apple's cheapest ‌iPhone‌ offering and to support costs down, the ‌iPhone SE‌ has ne'er had ‌Face ID‌ technology, sticking with a capacitive ‌Touch ID‌ Home fastener similar older ‌iPhone‌ models. As such, it would marque consciousness for the ‌iPhone SE‌ to beryllium the archetypal ‌iPhone‌ exemplary to summation the newer Side button-style ‌Touch ID‌ implementation.

Since, according to Young, the ‌iPhone SE‌ is expected to diagnostic a notch astatine the apical of the display, it is besides imaginable that it could bypass ‌Touch ID‌ and follow ‌Face ID‌ instead. In 2024, ‌Face ID‌ volition beryllium 7 years old, meaning that capable clip whitethorn person passed to warrant tricking the exertion down to an entry-level device. Since not adjacent flagship ‌iPhone‌ models connection under-display ‌Touch ID‌ exertion as yet, this seems similar the astir improbable enactment for Apple to present to its cheapest ‌iPhone‌ model. The authentication exertion Apple volition take for the fourth-generation ‌iPhone SE‌ whitethorn go clearer if much accusation astir the instrumentality emerges successful the coming months.