The next iPhone could come in a record number of colors, a new report suggests. This planned wider lineup keeps all five colors in the current iPhone 15 lineup and adds two more for good measure.
The report comes from a Weibo user called Fixed Focus digital and was spotted by MacRumors. It claims that the iPhone 16 Plus will be available in seven colors.
Yes, you noticed, the report only refers to the larger iPhone, not the regular iPhone 16. However, there has literally never been a time when Apple has reserved a color for just one size of iPhone, so I think it’s pretty certain that the report, if correct, will also apply to the smaller iPhone 16.
Apple has always kept the color ranges distinct between the iPhone and the iPhone Pro for example, but never between two sizes of the same model. It’s more likely that the report comes from someone who has only seen information about one size of device and is limiting their comments to what they can actually confirm.
The leaker has somewhat of a history, including claiming that the foldable iPhone might be paused for now, but we’ll probably find out if that report is correct first.
The current color range is yellow, blue, green, black and pink. Three of them, yellow, blue and green, are very pale tones, almost white in some lights, but the pink is eye-catchingly bright.
The prediction is that Apple will keep all of these colors in the lineup for this fall, but add two more. I want to clarify that even when Apple carries over colors between iPhone generations, it almost always revises the colors slightly, so it’s possible that these shades will continue but be different.
Then there are the two new colors, which the leaker says will be white and purple. Assuming Apple uses the same matte finish as for the iPhone 15, with color-infused glass rather than glass with colors on top, both of these colors could look good. I would expect the white to be bright and the purple toned down.
This way of creating colors in the back glass is expected to come to the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Plus this year, in a rare example of the Pro inheriting something from the classic iPhone rather than the other way around.
We’ll likely see more leaks about the design of the new iPhones, so check back.
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