The first iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro pre-orders have started shipping to buyers. As usual, this doesn’t mean your iPhone 16 will arrive before the September 20 launch date. It does mean, however, that you can easily track your new phone as it travels around the world.
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Apple has officially unveiled the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro. The new phones not only come with a lot of new features, but are also available in new colors. To match these colors, Apple has created new wallpapers. And if you don’t want to buy a new iPhone 16 just to get the new wallpapers, you can download them right here for any device.
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Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal is an expert at coming up with clever and inventive new angles for her Apple product reviews. For this year’s iPhone 16 launch, Joanna tried something entirely new by creating “Joannabot,” which she describes as a “generative-AI buddy who never tires of answering your iPhone 16 questions—especially whether it’s worth an upgrade.”
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Apple’s iPhone 16 launch is just a couple days away. Alongside the first reviews dropping, we have also learned some new details about the device’s repairability. There are several interesting internal changes that make this the most repairable iPhone ever. Here’s how iPhone repairs are improving.
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It’s been a long time since Apple has been working on a system to let users wirelessly recover and restore the firmware of their devices. This was first introduced for Apple Watch with iOS 15.4 and watchOS 8.5, and then expanded to Apple TV with iOS 17 and tvOS 17. Now with iOS 18, Apple is finally bringing this system to the iPhone 16 lineup.
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With the Camera Control button one of the headline features of the iPhone 16 line-up, developer Lux has announced that the Halide app will be able to take advantage of it.
You’ll be able to set the button to open Halide instead of the default camera app, and the company will be bringing additional functionality to the button very soon …
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According to new pre-order analysis from Ming Chi-Kuo, Apple is facing less demand for iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max than expected. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have had more sales compared to last year’s iPhones, though.
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Apple released the iPhone 16 lineup yesterday, with lovely new colors, a new button for capturing photos, bigger batteries, and support for Apple Intelligence. You’ve probably heard all of the headlining features by now, but there are some smaller features introduced this year that might’ve flown under the radar.
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We got our first look at a Geekbench result from the iPhone 16 earlier this week, with somewhat disappointing results. There was a decent improvement in single core performance, but the multi-core score was abnormal. However, newer results paint a much more promising picture.
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On Monday, Apple touted the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro as the first iPhones built from the ground up for Apple Intelligence with the A18 and A18 Pro chips. In a new interview, Apple’s Johny Srouji has offered additional details on the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence, including confirmation that all four iPhone 16 models have 8GB of RAM.
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If you buy an iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro, there’s one thing you won’t find in the box: Apple stickers.
In messaging distributed to Apple Store teams this week and seen by 9to5Mac, Apple confirmed that the iPhone 16 will not come with Apple stickers in the box. Instead, the company says that stickers will only be available to iPhone 16 buyers upon request.
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When we ran a poll before the keynote, more than 9,000 of you voted, and almost exactly half of you said that you didn’t plan to buy an iPhone 16.
Among those who did, the iPhone 16 Pro Max was the clear leader, with the two base models seeing almost no love at all …
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I said before the keynote that I expected to be ordering an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and that was going to be largely down to the functionality of the Camera Control button. This turned out to be an even stronger draw than I’d expected.
Despite the button itself inevitably leaking beforehand, Apple did manage to keep a lot of its functionality secret …
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Apple opened pre-orders for the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro this morning. As usual, if you weren’t among the first batch of buyers, you may want to make that purchase decision soon. September 20 is the official release day, but the most popular models have now slipped to October. Here’s what you should know.
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The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro are here. Pre-orders for Apple’s latest flagship iPhones have officially opened, with the first orders slated to arrive to customers in one week on September 20.
The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro pack many improvements, such as the all-new Camera Control button, the A18 chip, upgraded cameras, and more.
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Pre-orders for the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro open tomorrow. But if you want the fastest pre-ordering experience possible, you can walk through all the necessary shopping steps in advance via the Apple Store app. Here’s the cutoff time to prep your order in advance.
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A new report says that used iPhone sales are up 28% on the same period last year as owners liberate funds for an iPhone 16 purchase, with the peak seen on the day after the keynote.
The data suggests that the iPhone 16 is set to be a more popular upgrade than either the iPhone 14 or iPhone 15 – with one surprising twist …
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If you’re planning on using Apple trade-in to upgrade to an iPhone 16, you’ll want to quickly book it in for repair if it has any damage.
As one of my fellow tech writers discovered, Apple doesn’t just deduct the necessary repair fee from the value of your device (which could cost as little as $29 if you have AppleCare) – the company instead declares your phone worthless in its online estimate …
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According to a new certification from the China Quality Certification Centre, a regulatory body in China, all iPhone 16 models support up to 45W of wired fast charging through the USB-C port.
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The iPhone 16 Pro features an upgraded modem inside courtesy of Qualcomm, bringing several notable improvements. As detailed by SpeedSmart, the new iPhone 16 Pro offers an up to 26% faster boost in 5G download speeds thanks to its new Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 modem.
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When Apple introduced the M4 iPad Pro earlier this year, the company quietly added a new privacy feature to it, which is called “Secure Exclave.” Now the company is bringing the same new privacy technology to the iPhone 16 models, which are powered by the A18 chip.
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Apple this week announced the new iPhone 16, and the new phones will come with iOS 18 installed. The update is also coming to previous iPhone models next week, but this first release doesn’t include Apple Intelligence features. For that, Apple is running tests with iOS 18.1 beta – and iPhone 16 users will be able to update to the beta from day one.
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The iPhone 16 features a new internal design that comes with a big benefit to repairability. Apple says the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have been “reengineered” to make battery service easier and offer improved performance and thermals.
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Apple last year finally ditched its proprietary Lightning connector in favor of the more modern and universal USB-C. However, only the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max benefited from the faster USB 3, while the non-Pro models still have USB 2 speeds. Unfortunately, this remains the case for this year’s models.
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