iPhone 16 lineup is anticipated to launch in September with a couple of upgrades over final 12 months’s iPhone household. Early rumours advised that the top-end iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions will usher in a brand new A-series processor. On the similar time, the common iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have been believed to pack the A17 Professional Bionic chip discovered on this 12 months’s iPhone 15 Pro fashions. Now, a leaked code from Apple’s backend signifies that Apple is planning to arm the identical A18 SoC throughout all the iPhone 16 lineup.

iPhone 16 identifiers leaked

Again-end code found by Nicolas Alvarez (@nicolas09F9) and reported by MacRumors revealed that Apple will launch 4 iPhone fashions this 12 months and they’ll run on the identical A18 chip. The found identifiers are — iPhone 17,1, iPhone 17,2, iPhone 17,3, iPhone 17,4, and iPhone 17,5. All 5 begin with the identical quantity, which reportedly signifies that Apple plans to make use of the identical chip for them. The fifth recognized could possibly be used for an additional system, presumably a future iPhone SE variant.

Apple normally hyperlinks the identifier to the chip getting used. Final 12 months’s iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, which use the A16 Bionic SoC, got here with identifiers iPhone 15,4 and iPhone 15,5. Each the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Pro Max fueled by the A17 Professional Bionic chipset, have identifiers iPhone 16,1 and iPhone 16,2. 

If Apple follows this acquainted identifier numbering scheme this 12 months, we are able to count on all 4 iPhone 16 fashions to ship with the identical A18 chip. The corporate may deliver a two-tier system by packing an A18 on the usual fashions and an A18 Professional chip with completely different GPU and CPU scores on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. We have heard a number of rumours corroborating these claims. 

Apple has not revealed any particulars concerning the forthcoming iPhone fashions but. Due to this fact, all these particulars must be thought of with a pinch of salt.