Apple’s purported iPhone 16 collection of smartphones may function a brand new exterior design, in accordance with 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-about by Apple for the handset that’s anticipated to debut subsequent 12 months. The iPhone 16 may function a redesigned digital camera 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 exhibits the handset with a vertically aligned rear digital camera format, just like the iPhone X. Apple hasn’t used a vertical digital camera format because the 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
Photo Credit: MacRumors
The first mannequin in yellow additionally exhibits the iPhone 16 outfitted with a unified quantity rocker, and an Action button. A second mockup displaying the telephone in pink exhibits the telephone outfitted with mechanical quantity buttons and a digital camera module that resembles the iPhone 12.
A 3rd mannequin exhibits the purported telephone in a black colourway that features the identical digital camera 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 an alternative of mechanical, in accordance with the report.
Apple is reportedly planning to incorporate the Action button on all its iPhone 16 fashions subsequent 12 months, in accordance with current stories. This 12 months, solely the 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 digital camera button. Apple was beforehand anticipated to equip the iPhone 15 collection with capacitive buttons, however shelved its plans attributable to improvement challenges, in accordance with stories. As it’s significantly early within the improvement cycle, it’s probably that Apple’s purported plans for the iPhone 16 may additionally change or evolve earlier than the designs are finalised.
