iPhone 16 lineup is anticipated to launch in September with just a few upgrades over final yr’s iPhone household. Early rumours prompt that the top-end iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions will usher in a brand new A-series processor. On the identical time, the common iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have been believed to pack the A17 Professional Bionic chip discovered on this yr’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 the complete 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 yr and they’re going to 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 may very well be used for one more machine, probably a future iPhone SE variant.

Apple often hyperlinks the identifier to the chip getting used. Final yr’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 yr, we are able to count on all 4 iPhone 16 fashions to ship with the identical A18 chip. The corporate may convey 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. Subsequently, all these particulars must be thought of with a pinch of salt.