Subsequent yr’s iPhone SE 4 will virtually actually include 8GB of RAM, up from 4GB within the 2022 mannequin, as a result of {hardware} necessities of Apple Intelligence.
At present in Apple’s smartphone lineup, solely the iPhone 15 Professional fashions help Apple Intelligence, Apple’s suite of AI options coming in iOS 18.1, as a result of the options require a minimal of 8GB of RAM. There’s solely 6GB RAM within the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, so they are going to miss out.
Following the discharge of the iPhone 16 lineup in September, Apple will launch the fourth-generation iPhone SE as early as the start of 2025, in line with Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, and he says “you can bet that it will have Apple Intelligence.”
So until Apple discontinues the iPhone 15 fashions this yr when the iPhone 16 sequence debuts, this may go away Apple’s smartphone lineup in an uncommon place, with a sub-$500 machine within the iPhone SE 4 in a position to run Apple’s newest AI options whereas the usual iPhone 15 fashions can not.
The fourth-generation iPhone SE is rumored to characteristic an iPhone 14-like design, Face ID as a substitute of Contact ID, a USB-C port, an Motion button, an Apple-designed 5G modem, an A18 processor, and an all-screen look that does away with the Residence Button. The machine’s show is anticipated to develop in measurement from 4.7 inches to six.06 inches and use OLED for the primary time.
Apple suppliers are anticipated to start ramping up mass manufacturing of the machine in October of this yr. The machine might be launched forward of the Lunar New 12 months in January 2025. Nevertheless, all three present iPhone SE fashions have been introduced in March through the years, so a March 2025 launch appears fairly doable too.