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 characteristic Digital camera Management, highly effective upgrades to the superior digicam system, the Motion button to rapidly entry helpful options, and an enormous enhance 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 Digital camera Management, which brings new methods to seize reminiscences, and can assist customers rapidly entry visible intelligence to study objects or locations round them sooner than ever earlier than. The highly effective digicam system encompasses a 48MP Fusion digicam with a 2x Telephoto choice, giving customers two cameras in a single, whereas a brand new Extremely Broad digicam permits macro images. Subsequent-generation Photographic Kinds assist customers personalize their pictures, and spatial picture and video seize permits customers to relive life’s valuable reminiscences with outstanding 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 enhance in battery life.
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus shall be accessible 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,” mentioned Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vp of Worldwide iPhone Product Advertising. “With new methods to find the world round you and seize reminiscences utilizing Digital camera Management; a 48MP Fusion digicam that provides you two optical-quality cameras in a single; an enormous enhance in battery life; and highly effective, environment friendly efficiency because of the A18 chip, that is the proper time for patrons to improve or make the swap to iPhone.”
Constructed for Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16 lineup harnesses the ability of Apple silicon and Apple-built generative fashions to grasp 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 information with Non-public Cloud Compute. This groundbreaking strategy offers the power 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 shall be accessible as a free software program replace, with the primary set of options rolling out subsequent month in U.S. English for many areas all over the world.
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 in all places they write, together with Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps. Within the Notes and Telephone apps, customers can even file, transcribe, and summarize audio. When a recording is initiated whereas on a name within the Telephone app, contributors are robotically 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 characteristic that understands the content material of emails and surfaces time-sensitive messages. Throughout a person’s inbox, summaries convey crucial info of every e mail as a substitute of previewing the primary few strains.
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 screen when lively. 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 following. Customers can sort to Siri at any time, and swap fluidly between textual content and voice as they speed up on a regular basis duties. Siri additionally now has in depth product information to reply hundreds of questions on options on iPhone and different Apple gadgets.
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 shall be taken to a completely new degree with the power to create authentic Genmoji by merely typing an outline, or by deciding on a photograph of a good friend or member of the family. Siri will have the ability to draw on a person’s private context to ship intelligence that’s tailor-made to them. It’s going to additionally acquire onscreen consciousness to grasp and take motion with customers’ content material, in addition to take a whole lot of recent actions in and throughout Apple and third-party apps. And whereas utilizing iOS 18 options like Siri and Writing Instruments, customers may also have the ability to 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 another 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 p.c more durable than the primary era and 2x more durable than glass on another smartphone.1 The interior design of iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus has been reengineered to permit for a good bigger battery and to higher dissipate warmth, whereas making battery service simpler. With the brand new inside design and superior energy administration of iOS 18, the batteries are optimized to supply an enormous enhance in battery life. Obtainable in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch show sizes, the Tremendous Retina XDR show with OLED know-how and the Dynamic Island affords an distinctive viewing expertise.2
The Motion button involves iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, permitting customers to simply entry a wide range of features with only a press. Customers can rapidly open the digicam, flashlight, or controls; swap 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 can even entry in-app performance, like serving to a person unlock and lock their automobile with FordPass.3
Introducing Digital camera Management
Digital camera Management — a results of considerate {hardware} and software program integration — elevates the digicam expertise on the iPhone 16 lineup. It’s full of innovation, together with a tactile swap that powers the press expertise, a high-precision power sensor that permits the sunshine press gesture, and a capacitive sensor that permits for contact interactions. Digital camera Management can rapidly launch the digicam, take a photograph, and begin video recording so customers don’t miss the second. A brand new digicam preview helps customers body the shot and modify different management choices — akin to zoom, publicity, or depth of subject — to compose a shocking picture or video by sliding their finger on the Digital camera Management. Moreover, builders will have the ability to convey Digital camera Management to third-party apps akin to Snapchat.
Later this yr, Digital camera Management will unlock visible intelligence to assist customers study objects and locations sooner than ever earlier than. Customers can click on and maintain Digital camera Management to tug up the hours or scores for a restaurant they cross, add an occasion from a flyer to their calendar, rapidly determine a canine by breed, and extra. Digital camera Management may also 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’ll purchase an merchandise, or to profit from ChatGPT’s problem-solving expertise. Customers are in command of when third-party instruments are used and what info is shared.
New Digital camera Experiences
The highly effective new digicam system helps customers seize each on a regular basis moments and cherished reminiscences like by no means earlier than. The 48MP Fusion digicam permits 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 Broad digicam with autofocus permits macro images. The Extremely Broad digicam additionally gathers as much as 2.6x extra gentle for larger picture high quality. Moreover, iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus now take spatial images and movies to assist customers relive reminiscences with outstanding depth on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Subsequent-generation Photographic Kinds assist customers specific their creativity and customise their images by domestically adjusting coloration, highlights, and shadows in actual time. Kinds even have a deeper understanding of pores and skin undertones, so customers can personalize how they seem in images. In contrast to filters, which frequently use a one-size-fits-all strategy by including a coloration to a whole scene, changes are utilized to particular colours of a specific type. A wider set of types affords extra inventive choices for modifying a photograph’s aesthetic, and types will be rendered throughout stay 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 inventive new methods to edit video sound with Audio Combine — permitting customers to regulate their sound after seize to deal with the voice of the individual on digicam, 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 scale back undesirable noise for higher audio high quality.
Powered by Apple Intelligence, customers can seek for particular images within the Pictures app utilizing pure language, and seek for particular moments in video clips. Moreover, the brand new Clear Up device can determine and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph with out altering the topic.
A18: Subsequent-Stage Efficiency and Cell 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 big generative fashions and runs ML fashions as much as 2x sooner than the A16 Bionic chip.
The 6-core CPU is 30 p.c sooner than the A16 Bionic chip and sooner than all of the competitors. It is usually extra energy environment friendly and may run the identical workload with 30 p.c much less energy than A16 Bionic. The 5-core GPU is as much as 40 p.c sooner and 35 p.c 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 signify the habits of sunshine with as much as 5x larger body charges than with software-based ray tracing. Each fashions help the AAA video games beforehand solely accessible 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. Recreation 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 inside design ship as much as 30 p.c larger sustained efficiency for gaming whereas guaranteeing Apple Intelligence runs effectively on iPhone.
Expanded Communication and Security Capabilities
The iPhone 16 lineup options revolutionary methods to remain related and offers enhanced security capabilities for peace of thoughts. Powered by the identical groundbreaking know-how as Emergency SOS through 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 through satellite tv for pc in iOS 18 are end-to-end encrypted. Additionally new with iOS 18, Emergency SOS Dwell Video permits customers to share a stay video feed or images with taking part emergency dispatchers throughout an emergency name.5 Later this fall, Roadside Help through satellite tv for pc — which connects customers to a roadside help supplier if they’ve automobile hassle whereas off the grid — expands past the U.S. to the U.Ok.
Higher for the Setting
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are designed with the setting in thoughts. As a part of Apple 2030, the corporate’s bold objective to be carbon impartial throughout its complete carbon footprint by the top of this decade, Apple is prioritizing renewable electrical energy in manufacturing, and investing in wind and photo voltaic initiatives all over the world to deal with the electrical energy used to cost all Apple merchandise, together with the iPhone 16 lineup. Right this moment, all Apple amenities run on 100% renewable electrical energy — together with the info facilities that energy Apple Intelligence.
To attain Apple 2030, the corporate can also be designing merchandise with recycled and renewable supplies. iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus characteristic greater than 30 p.c recycled content material general, together with 85 p.c recycled aluminum within the enclosure and 80 p.c or extra recycled metal throughout a number of elements. The battery is made with 100% recycled cobalt and — in a primary for iPhone — over 95 p.c recycled lithium.6 The iPhone 16 lineup meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity, and is freed from mercury and PVC. The packaging is totally fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of eradicating plastic from its packaging by subsequent yr.
Pricing and Availability
- iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus shall be accessible 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.) monthly, and iPhone 16 Plus begins at $899 (U.S.) or $37.45 (U.S.) monthly.
- Apple affords nice methods to save lots of and improve to the newest iPhone. Clients can get $180 (U.S.) to $650 (U.S.) in credit score once they commerce in iPhone 12 or larger, or as much as $1,000 (U.S.) in credit to place towards an iPhone 16 Professional with a provider supply. Clients can benefit from these affords by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line or an Apple Retailer location. For provider supply 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 situations, clients can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Clients 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.Ok., and the U.S., will have the ability to 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 shall be accessible in Macao, Vietnam, and 19 different nations and areas starting Friday, September 27.
- iOS 18 shall be accessible as a free software program replace on Monday, September 16.
- Apple Intelligence shall be accessible as a free software program replace. The primary set of Apple Intelligence options shall be accessible 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 come back. Will probably be accessible 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.Ok. Over the course of the following yr, Apple Intelligence will develop 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, accessible for $49 (U.S.), a Silicone Case with MagSafe shall be accessible 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 Digital camera Management, that includes a sapphire crystal coupled to a conductive layer that communicates finger actions to the Digital camera Management. FineWoven Pockets with MagSafe shall be accessible for $59 (U.S.) in black, blackberry, darkish inexperienced, and deep blue.
- A brand new MagSafe Charger permits sooner wi-fi charging as much as 25W, is Qi2 licensed, and is obtainable 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 harm, battery service protection, and 24/7 help from the individuals who know iPhone finest.
- iCloud+ plans begin at 50GB for $0.99 (U.S.) monthly and supply as much as 12TB for $59.99 (U.S.) monthly, offering further storage to maintain recordsdata, images, movies, and extra protected within the cloud, accessible throughout gadgets, and straightforward to share with others. iCloud+ additionally provides entry to premium options, together with Non-public Relay, Conceal My E mail, Customized E mail Domains, and HomeKit Safe Video help.
- Clients 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. Right this moment, 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 gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the very 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 underneath managed laboratory situations and have a ranking of IP68 underneath IEC commonplace 60529 (most depth of 6 meters for as much as half-hour). Splash, water, and mud resistance aren’t everlasting situations. Resistance may lower on account of regular put on. Don’t try and cost a moist iPhone; check with the person information for cleansing and drying directions. Liquid harm just isn’t lined underneath guarantee.
- The show has rounded corners that comply with a fantastic curved design, and these corners are inside a normal rectangle. When measured as a normal rectangular form, the display screen 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 shall be accessible this fall in 56 nations and areas, together with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Thailand, the U.Ok., the U.S., and Vietnam. Some options is probably not accessible for all nations and areas, or all areas.
- Apple’s satellite tv for pc options are included free of charge for 2 years beginning on the time of activation of a brand new iPhone 14 or later. For Emergency SOS through satellite tv for pc availability, go to help.apple.com/en-us/HT213426. Messages through satellite tv for pc shall be accessible within the U.S. and Canada in iOS 18. SMS availability will rely upon provider. Provider charges might apply. Customers ought to test with their provider for particulars. Roadside Help through satellite tv for pc is at the moment accessible within the U.S. with AAA and Verizon Roadside Help, and is launching within the U.Ok. with Inexperienced Flag this fall. Taking part roadside help suppliers might cost for providers, and iPhone customers who aren’t members can benefit from their roadside help providers on a pay-per-use foundation. Apple’s satellite tv for pc providers 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 timber or surrounding buildings.
- Emergency SOS Dwell Video shall be accessible within the U.S. in iOS 18.
- All cobalt and lithium references are on a mass stability allocation.
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