The forthcoming iPhone 16 just isn’t anticipated to have main {hardware} modifications from the earlier mannequin.
Though the much-touted Apple Intelligence options will solely start exhibiting up weeks after the preliminary launch of iOS 18, Apple reportedly has no plans to delay releasing its annual replace of the iPhone 16.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes that the primary of the Apple Intelligence options solely appeared within the first developer beta of iOS 18.1, slightly than being included within the authentic betas. The corporate, in its authentic presentation on iOS 18, separated the bottom options most fashions of iPhone would get from the Apple Intelligence options, the latter of which solely work with the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max at current.
It is anticipated that each one fashions of the iPhone 16 will be capable to reap the benefits of at the least some options of Apple Intelligence when it arrives, however Apple has been cagey about when customers can count on the total rollout to be full.
Gurman, in his Energy On publication, famous that Apple did as soon as delay the discharge of an iPhone till October — for the iPhone 4S, 13 years in the past — as a result of main iCloud and Siri options weren’t prepared. This time, nevertheless, the iPhone 16 lineup is anticipated to launch in mid-September, as ordinary.
AppleInsider has printed a hands-on with the primary iOS 18.1 beta, which incorporates a number of the new writing instruments, summarization options, recording and transcription choices, and the primary effort at enhancing the Siri expertise. Different options, such because the touted Genmoji and ChatGPT integration are anticipated to reach in later betas.