Apple Event 2023: Expectations for iPhone 15 and beyond

Apple’s Wonderlust event is coming soon. It will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater on Tuesday, September 12 and streaming. We hope to see the next iPhone and Apple Watch announced. The annual fall iPhone event has become a cultural highlight heralding the end of summer, right up there with pumpkin spice.

For months, a seemingly endless flow rumors about iPhone 15 has spread online. Some hint at a fairly straightforward annual upgrade round, while others point to the possibility of a rebranded larger Pro model called the iPhone 15 super. As anticipation grows, here’s everything you can expect from Apple’s fall event.

Wanderlust or pleasure?

The event invitation has a mysterious feature, displaying the Apple logo made up of small dust particles. The logo has grooves carved into it, somewhat similar to the shapes you see on windswept sand dunes.

The slogan “Wonderlust” is of course a play on the word wanderlust, which means an intense desire or urge to wander. Does magical longing mean intense longing or the urge to wonder? Like everyone else, we’re trying to read something in the invite and wondering what it has to do with Apple’s upcoming announcements. Could the fluted cutouts in the logo hint at a less boxy iPhone design? Could these particles be related to improved cameras that are able to capture more detail? Could the colors – metallic shades like grey, blue and even gold – be related to the colors of the new iPhone or Apple Watch?

Or is it all just Apple acknowledging the fleeting nature of existence? No idea. But I expect the iPhone 15 Pro to be the leader.

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iPhone 15 and 15 Plus

Like the iPhone 14 series, there will likely be four models in the new iPhone line: iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a solid track record when it comes to reporting on Apple leaks, the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus will essentially be a repackaged iPhone 14 Pro without the telephoto camera or glass body. Stainless Steel.

The new phones will inherit the 48-megapixel main camera and A16 chip from 14 Pros. On the outside, the two phones will trade the display notches for the Dynamic Island notch cutout that also debuted on the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.

Despite the addition of Dynamic Flip, don’t expect any other changes to the display. Display analyst Ross Young speak in a September 2022 post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he did not expect the base iPhone 15 models to have a high refresh rate like Apple’s iPhone Pro.

And according to a May report by ChargerLab, a battery and charging website with a steady rumor file, all four iPhone 15 models will support 15-watt wireless charging using the Qi2 open standard announced at the beginning of the year. now. If this turns out to be true, it means the iPhone 15 will open up a whole new world of wireless charging devices that don’t necessarily require a licensed Apple MagSafe accessory.

But the biggest change expected for all four iPhones will be the removal of the Lightning connector. Possibly due to pressure from the European Union, which has passed a law adopting USB-C as a common charging standard, the iPhone 15 series will have a USB-C port instead of a Lighting port. The last time Apple switched up the iPhone’s power port was in 2012, when it introduced the Lightning port on the iPhone 5, marking the end of the wide 30-pin iPod connector previously used.

There’s a bit of ambiguity about how exactly Apple will handle this, such as whether USB-C will be on all new iPhones globally or just in the EU. But it’s likely that all new iPhone models will be sold with USB-C ports in the near future.

iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max

Out of everything Apple is expected to announce, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max may have the biggest changes. According to Bloomberg’s Gurman, stainless steel is no longer available, with the Pro model’s frame instead being made from titanium. The change in materials could help reduce the overall weight of each phone, which is heavy even without a case.

The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max will likely feature a new chip called the A17, which has a tiny 3-nanometer processor, Apple’s smallest silicon to date. On the front, the two phones will likely have thinner screen bezels.

The biggest change for the Pro models will be the USB-C port, which unlike the regular 15 and 15 Plus can support faster data speeds for things like file transfers and ProRes video files.

The iPhone 15 Pro Max may have a new 6x optical telephoto camera. Ming-Chi Kuo, a famous Apple analyst at TF International Securities, predicts that the iPhone 15 Pro Max will have a horizontal periscope lens and camera set inside the phone body, similar to the Pixel 7 Pro, Galaxy S23 Ultra and Sony Xperia 1 V.

Doubling the native optical zoom from 3x to 6x will let you take magnified photos with better detail, resolution, and dynamic range than the 6x digital zoom on iPhone 14 Pro currently. in.

Kuo’s report also suggests that both Pro models have solid-state power and volume buttons, which would further differentiate them from the regular 15 and 15 Plus. These buttons won’t be mechanical but will be more similar to the touch area that debuted on the iPhone 7 and act like a “home button” thanks to some clever haptic feedback. Back in 2018, the HTC U12 had fixed buttons instead of mechanical ones; however, the experience of using them is not good.

There are some rumors that have been circulating that are a bit old or unlikely. First, the iPhone 15 Pro Max can be renamed iPhone 15 Ultra. Bloomberg’s Gurman mentioned this possibility nearly a year ago, but that shouldn’t be taken seriously because Gurman hasn’t mentioned it recently.

Another latest rumor comes from MacRumors, which found code in the beta version of iOS 17 that describes the functionality of an action button similar to the one on the Apple Watch Ultra. Adding such hardware would be a first for Apple, and the iPhone’s action button would be for more phone-oriented tasks like keyboard shortcuts or activating the camera shutter. We’ll have to wait until the 12th to find out.

Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2

In a less ambitious update, it looks like the next regular Apple Watch will likely be a relatively modest annual iteration of the Apple Watch Series 8. The Series 9 could come in new colors. As reported by MacRumors, based on a parcel by X/Twitter user ShrimpApplePro, the Apple Watch Series 9 may come in a new pink color.

The Series 9 will likely be powered by the new S9 chip, which Bloomberg’s Gurman, posting on his Power On Discord channel in May, described as bringing improvements in performance and efficiency. That’s another way of saying battery life could be better.

Apple Watch Ultra could have a second-generation version. According to X/Twitter, this rugged watch debuted last year and a new version may carry a faster chip and have a black titanium finish. parcel by ShrimpApplePro. The black version of the Ultra could look amazing!

Okay, let’s talk about everything else.

Potpourri and wrap

The AirPods case will likely have a new version with a USB-C connector. iOS 17 and WatchOS 10 will likely have an official release date. And I can’t imagine that Apple would pass up the opportunity to update everyone with the Vision Pro headset that was announced back in June at WWDC.

Obviously, until Tim Cook and crew take the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater and make an announcement, we won’t know anything for sure.

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