September 9, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus
Constructed for Apple Intelligence with the all-new A18 chip, each fashions function Digicam Management, highly effective upgrades to the superior digital camera system, the Motion button to rapidly entry helpful options, and an enormous increase in battery life
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple as we speak introduced iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, constructed for Apple Intelligence, the easy-to-use private intelligence system that understands private context to ship intelligence that’s useful and related whereas defending person privateness. The iPhone 16 lineup additionally introduces Digicam Management, which brings new methods to seize recollections, and can assist customers rapidly entry visible intelligence to study objects or locations round them sooner than ever earlier than. The highly effective digital camera system includes a 48MP Fusion digital camera with a 2x Telephoto choice, giving customers two cameras in a single, whereas a brand new Extremely Extensive digital camera allows macro images. Subsequent-generation Photographic Types assist customers personalize their pictures, and spatial photograph and video seize permits customers to relive life’s valuable recollections with exceptional depth on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. The brand new A18 chip delivers an enormous leap in efficiency and effectivity, enabling demanding AAA video games, in addition to an enormous increase in battery life.
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will likely be obtainable in 5 daring colours: black, white, pink, teal, and ultramarine. Pre-orders start Friday, September 13, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
“iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus mark the start of a brand new period for iPhone with Apple Intelligence delivering highly effective, private, and personal experiences to our customers,” stated Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vp of Worldwide iPhone Product Advertising. “With new methods to find the world round you and seize recollections utilizing Digicam Management; a 48MP Fusion digital camera that provides you two optical-quality cameras in a single; an enormous increase in battery life; and highly effective, environment friendly efficiency because of the A18 chip, that is the right time for purchasers to improve or make the change to iPhone.”
Constructed for Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16 lineup harnesses the facility of Apple silicon and Apple-built generative fashions to know and create language and pictures, take motion throughout apps, and draw from private context to simplify and speed up on a regular basis duties. Apple Intelligence maintains the privateness and safety of person knowledge with Non-public Cloud Compute. This groundbreaking method offers the flexibility to flex and scale computational capability between on-device processing and bigger, server-based fashions that run on devoted Apple silicon servers — a unprecedented step ahead for privateness in synthetic intelligence. Apple Intelligence will likely be obtainable as a free software program replace, with the primary set of options rolling out subsequent month in U.S. English for many areas around the globe.
Apple Intelligence unlocks new methods for customers to reinforce their writing. With systemwide Writing Instruments constructed into iOS 18, customers can rewrite, proofread, and summarize textual content almost all over the place they write, together with Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps. Within the Notes and Telephone apps, customers may report, transcribe, and summarize audio. When a recording is initiated whereas on a name within the Telephone app, members are routinely notified, and as soon as the decision ends, Apple Intelligence generates a abstract to recall key factors.
Apple Intelligence helps customers prioritize with summarized notifications, together with Precedence Messages in Mail, a function that understands the content material of emails and surfaces time-sensitive messages. Throughout a person’s inbox, summaries convey a very powerful data of every e-mail as an alternative of previewing the primary few traces.
Siri turns into extra deeply built-in into the system expertise and will get a brand-new design with a sublime glowing gentle that wraps across the fringe of the display when energetic. With richer language-understanding capabilities, speaking with Siri is extra pure and versatile. Siri follows alongside when customers stumble over their phrases, and maintains context from one request to the subsequent. Customers can kind to Siri at any time, and change fluidly between textual content and voice as they speed up on a regular basis duties. Siri additionally now has intensive product data to reply 1000’s of questions on options on iPhone and different Apple units.
Further Apple Intelligence options will roll out later this yr and within the months following, together with Picture Playground, which permits customers to create playful pictures in moments. Emoji will likely be taken to a completely new degree with the flexibility to create authentic Genmoji by merely typing an outline, or by deciding on a photograph of a pal or member of the family. Siri will be capable of draw on a person’s private context to ship intelligence that’s tailor-made to them. It’ll additionally acquire onscreen consciousness to know and take motion with customers’ content material, in addition to take tons of of recent actions in and throughout Apple and third-party apps. And whereas utilizing iOS 18 options like Siri and Writing Instruments, customers may even be capable of simply entry ChatGPT from OpenAI.
A Stunning New Design with Business-Main Sturdiness
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are stunning and constructed to final. iPhone holds its worth longer than some other smartphone because of its industry-leading sturdiness, together with the sturdy again glass, a water- and dust-resistant design, common software program updates, and the latest-generation Ceramic Defend with a sophisticated formulation that’s 50 % more durable than the primary technology and 2x more durable than glass on some other smartphone.1 The inner design of iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus has been reengineered to permit for a fair bigger battery and to raised dissipate warmth, whereas making battery service simpler. With the brand new inner design and superior energy administration of iOS 18, the batteries are optimized to supply an enormous increase in battery life. Accessible in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch show sizes, the Tremendous Retina XDR show with OLED know-how and the Dynamic Island gives an distinctive viewing expertise.2
The Motion button involves iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, permitting customers to simply entry quite a lot of features with only a press. Customers can rapidly open the digital camera, flashlight, or controls; change between Ring and Silent; acknowledge music with Shazam; activate Voice Memos, Focus, Translate, and accessibility options like Magnifier; or use Shortcuts for extra choices. The Motion button may entry in-app performance, like serving to a person unlock and lock their automotive with FordPass.3
Introducing Digicam Management
Digicam Management — a results of considerate {hardware} and software program integration — elevates the digital camera expertise on the iPhone 16 lineup. It’s filled with innovation, together with a tactile change that powers the press expertise, a high-precision pressure sensor that permits the sunshine press gesture, and a capacitive sensor that enables for contact interactions. Digicam Management can rapidly launch the digital camera, take a photograph, and begin video recording so customers don’t miss the second. A brand new digital camera preview helps customers body the shot and modify different management choices — akin to zoom, publicity, or depth of area — to compose a shocking photograph or video by sliding their finger on the Digicam Management. Moreover, builders will be capable of deliver Digicam Management to third-party apps akin to Snapchat.
Later this yr, Digicam Management will unlock visible intelligence to assist customers study objects and locations sooner than ever earlier than. Customers can click on and maintain Digicam Management to drag up the hours or rankings for a restaurant they go, add an occasion from a flyer to their calendar, rapidly establish a canine by breed, and extra. Digicam Management may even function a gateway into third-party instruments with particular area experience, like when customers wish to search on Google to search out the place they will purchase an merchandise, or to profit from ChatGPT’s problem-solving abilities. Customers are in command of when third-party instruments are used and what data is shared.
New Digicam Experiences
The highly effective new digital camera system helps customers seize each on a regular basis moments and cherished recollections like by no means earlier than. The 48MP Fusion digital camera allows a 2x optical-quality Telephoto choice, which is like having two cameras in a single, so customers can get nearer to the topic to simply body a photograph. Along with wider-angle photographs, the brand new 12MP Extremely Extensive digital camera with autofocus allows macro images. The Extremely Extensive digital camera additionally gathers as much as 2.6x extra gentle for greater picture high quality. Moreover, iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus now take spatial photographs and movies to assist customers relive recollections with exceptional depth on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Subsequent-generation Photographic Types assist customers specific their creativity and customise their photographs by regionally adjusting coloration, highlights, and shadows in actual time. Types even have a deeper understanding of pores and skin undertones, so customers can personalize how they seem in photographs. In contrast to filters, which frequently use a one-size-fits-all method by including a coloration to a whole scene, changes are utilized to particular colours of a particular model. A wider set of types gives extra artistic choices for enhancing a photograph’s aesthetic, and types may be rendered throughout dwell preview, utilized after a photograph is taken, and even reversed later.
Video can now be captured in Spatial Audio for immersive listening with AirPods, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, or a encompass sound system. Each iPhone fashions introduce artistic new methods to edit video sound with Audio Combine — permitting customers to regulate their sound after seize to give attention to the voice of the individual on digital camera, make it sound just like the video was recorded inside an expert studio, or place vocal tracks within the entrance and environmental noises in encompass sound. With wind noise discount, highly effective machine studying (ML) algorithms cut back undesirable noise for higher audio high quality.
Powered by Apple Intelligence, customers can seek for particular photographs within the Images app utilizing pure language, and seek for particular moments in video clips. Moreover, the brand new Clear Up instrument can establish and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph with out altering the topic.
A18: Subsequent-Degree Efficiency and Cellular Gaming
A18 delivers an enormous leap in efficiency and energy effectivity, and is constructed on second-generation 3-nanometer know-how to additional speed up Apple Intelligence. An upgraded 16-core Neural Engine is optimized for giant generative fashions and runs ML fashions as much as 2x sooner than the A16 Bionic chip.
The 6-core CPU is 30 % sooner than the A16 Bionic chip and sooner than all of the competitors. It is usually extra energy environment friendly and might run the identical workload with 30 % much less energy than A16 Bionic. The 5-core GPU is as much as 40 % sooner and 35 % extra environment friendly than A16 Bionic to energy beautiful graphics efficiency for Apple Intelligence, and places a strong gaming machine in customers’ pockets. Now with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, video games on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus extra precisely characterize the habits of sunshine with as much as 5x greater body charges than with software-based ray tracing. Each fashions help the AAA video games beforehand solely obtainable on iPhone 15 Professional, in addition to new titles like Honor of Kings: World with an extremely graphics mode optimized for the iPhone 16 lineup, coming subsequent yr. Sport Mode in iOS 18 delivers extra constant body charges whereas making AirPods, sport controllers, and different wi-fi equipment extremely responsive. The effectivity of A18 and the machine’s rearchitected inner design ship as much as 30 % greater sustained efficiency for gaming whereas guaranteeing Apple Intelligence runs effectively on iPhone.
Expanded Communication and Security Capabilities
The iPhone 16 lineup options progressive methods to remain linked and offers enhanced security capabilities for peace of thoughts. Powered by the identical groundbreaking know-how as Emergency SOS by way of satellite tv for pc, customers are in a position to connect with the closest satellite tv for pc to ship and obtain texts, emoji, and Tapbacks over iMessage and SMS whereas outdoors of mobile and Wi-Fi protection.4 Messages by way of satellite tv for pc in iOS 18 are end-to-end encrypted. Additionally new with iOS 18, Emergency SOS Stay Video permits customers to share a dwell video feed or photographs with collaborating emergency dispatchers throughout an emergency name.5 Later this fall, Roadside Help by way of satellite tv for pc — which connects customers to a roadside help supplier if they’ve automotive hassle whereas off the grid — expands past the U.S. to the U.Okay.
Higher for the Setting
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are designed with the surroundings in thoughts. As a part of Apple 2030, the corporate’s formidable purpose to be carbon impartial throughout its complete carbon footprint by the tip of this decade, Apple is prioritizing renewable electrical energy in manufacturing, and investing in wind and photo voltaic tasks around the globe to deal with the electrical energy used to cost all Apple merchandise, together with the iPhone 16 lineup. As we speak, all Apple amenities run on 100% renewable electrical energy — together with the information facilities that energy Apple Intelligence.
To realize Apple 2030, the corporate can also be designing merchandise with recycled and renewable supplies. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus function greater than 30 % recycled content material total, together with 85 % recycled aluminum within the enclosure and 80 % or extra recycled metal throughout a number of parts. The battery is made with 100% recycled cobalt and — in a primary for iPhone — over 95 % recycled lithium.6 The iPhone 16 lineup meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and is freed from mercury and PVC. The packaging is totally fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its purpose of eradicating plastic from its packaging by subsequent yr.
Pricing and Availability
- iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will likely be obtainable in ultramarine, teal, pink, white, and black in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB storage capacities. iPhone 16 begins at $799 (U.S.) or $33.29 (U.S.) per 30 days, and iPhone 16 Plus begins at $899 (U.S.) or $37.45 (U.S.) per 30 days.
- Apple gives nice methods to save lots of and improve to the most recent iPhone. Prospects can get $180 (U.S.) to $650 (U.S.) in credit score after they commerce in iPhone 12 or greater, or as much as $1,000 (U.S.) in credit to place towards an iPhone 16 Professional with a provider provide. Prospects can make the most of these gives by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line or an Apple Retailer location. For provider provide eligibility necessities and extra particulars, see apple.com/store/buy-iphone/carrier-offers. To see what their machine is value and for trade-in phrases and circumstances, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Prospects in additional than 58 nations and areas, together with Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Türkiye, the UAE, the U.Okay., and the U.S., will be capable of pre-order iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus starting at 5 a.m. PDT this Friday, September 13, with availability starting Friday, September 20.
- iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will likely be obtainable in Macao, Vietnam, and 19 different nations and areas starting Friday, September 27.
- iOS 18 will likely be obtainable as a free software program replace on Monday, September 16.
- Apple Intelligence will likely be obtainable as a free software program replace. The primary set of Apple Intelligence options will likely be obtainable in beta subsequent month as a part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with extra options rolling out within the months to return. Will probably be obtainable on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with machine and Siri language set to U.S. English. Later this yr, Apple Intelligence will add help for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Okay. Over the course of the subsequent yr, Apple Intelligence will increase to extra platforms and languages, like Chinese language, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others.
- Along with an iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus Clear Case, obtainable for $49 (U.S.), a Silicone Case with MagSafe will likely be obtainable for $49 (U.S.) in black, denim, fuchsia, lake inexperienced, plum, star fruit, stone grey, and ultramarine. Apple circumstances for the iPhone 16 lineup work seamlessly with Digicam Management, that includes a sapphire crystal coupled to a conductive layer that communicates finger actions to the Digicam Management. FineWoven Pockets with MagSafe will likely be obtainable for $59 (U.S.) in black, blackberry, darkish inexperienced, and deep blue.
- A brand new MagSafe Charger allows sooner wi-fi charging as much as 25W, is Qi2 licensed, and is offered in a 1-meter size for $39 (U.S.) or a 2-meter size for $49 (U.S.).
- AppleCare+ for iPhone offers unparalleled service and help. This consists of limitless incidents of unintentional injury, battery service protection, and 24/7 help from the individuals who know iPhone finest.
- iCloud+ plans begin at 50GB for $0.99 (U.S.) per 30 days and provide as much as 12TB for $59.99 (U.S.) per 30 days, offering extra storage to maintain information, photographs, movies, and extra secure within the cloud, accessible throughout units, and straightforward to share with others. iCloud+ additionally offers entry to premium options, together with Non-public Relay, Cover My E-mail, Customized E-mail Domains, and HomeKit Safe Video help.
- Prospects who buy iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will obtain three free months of Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and Apple Health+ with a brand new subscription.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are splash-, water-, and dust-resistant. They had been examined beneath managed laboratory circumstances and have a ranking of IP68 beneath IEC customary 60529 (most depth of 6 meters for as much as half-hour). Splash, water, and mud resistance should not everlasting circumstances. Resistance may lower on account of regular put on. Don’t try to cost a moist iPhone; seek advice from the person information for cleansing and drying directions. Liquid injury isn’t coated beneath guarantee.
- The show has rounded corners that comply with an exquisite curved design, and these corners are inside a regular rectangle. When measured as a regular rectangular form, the display is 6.12 inches (iPhone 16) or 6.69 inches (iPhone 16 Plus) diagonally. The precise viewable space is smaller.
- Automobile Management on FordPass with the Motion button and Management Middle will likely be obtainable this fall in 56 nations and areas, together with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Thailand, the U.Okay., the U.S., and Vietnam. Some options might not be obtainable for all nations and areas, or all areas.
- Apple’s satellite tv for pc options are included without cost for 2 years beginning on the time of activation of a brand new iPhone 14 or later. For Emergency SOS by way of satellite tv for pc availability, go to help.apple.com/en-us/HT213426. Messages by way of satellite tv for pc will likely be obtainable within the U.S. and Canada in iOS 18. SMS availability will depend upon provider. Service charges could apply. Customers ought to verify with their provider for particulars. Roadside Help by way of satellite tv for pc is at present obtainable within the U.S. with AAA and Verizon Roadside Help, and is launching within the U.Okay. with Inexperienced Flag this fall. Collaborating roadside help suppliers could cost for companies, and iPhone customers who should not members can make the most of their roadside help companies on a pay-per-use foundation. Apple’s satellite tv for pc companies had been designed to be used in open areas with a transparent line of sight to the sky. Efficiency could also be impacted by obstructions akin to bushes or surrounding buildings.
- Emergency SOS Stay Video will likely be obtainable within the U.S. in iOS 18.
- All cobalt and lithium references are on a mass steadiness allocation.
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