The iPhone is about to make one of the biggest changes in years, a new leak insists. Next year, for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, Apple is going to change the display sizes. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter,in the “post-game Q&A section”.
This means that, for the first time since the introduction of the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max in the fall of 2020, the screens are going to get bigger.
Currently, on the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max—and almost certainly the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max—the displays measure 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches respectively.
But next year, it seems, the design of the iPhone will change, by “a couple tenths of an inch diagonally”, so the screen sizes would increase by 0.2 inches, that is, to 6.3 inches for the iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches on the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
That may not sound like a big change but, as Gurman says, it would mean the phones would have the largest displays ever seen on the iPhone and make them more on point with phones from companies like Samsung. The Samsung S23 Ultra, for instance, has a 6.8-inch display.
This exactly fits with the sizes of display from analyst Ross Young, who had the same figures in mind in a report he made earlier this month, something that industry heavyweights like Ming-Chi Kuo from TFI Securities have also corroborated.
Intriguingly, this change would not be size for size’s sake. It would also provide extra room inside the phone, for a bigger battery, say, or space for bigger camera sensors and so on.
In fact, no sooner had Gurman made his claim, but a report on Chinese site Weibo, spotted by MacRumors, backed it up. So, it looks like the periscope camera, expected to arrive this fall, but only on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, could come to the smaller Pro model next year as well.
And the bigger space could mean a larger sensor can fit in, which adds to photographic capabilities, especially in low light.
How much bigger, you ask? As much as almost an eighth bigger (12%) it seems.
All of which is pretty interesting, though it’s worth saying that one thing isn’t changing and that’s the size of our hands—evolution moves more slowly when it’s human rather than electronic. So, a bigger display, though welcome, will still need to fit in a manageable device, and there’s already very little extra screen space to be had on the front of an iPhone. Well, we’ll see.
There’s plenty of time for things to develop before the iPhone 16 Pro is released.
By the way, these changes are destined for the Pro phones only, it seems, not the iPhone 16, for instance. More as we have it.
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