They will still have to go through just over seven months until we know everything about the future iPhone 16. At the moment, there is no reason to think that this year will be different in terms of the calendar that Cupertino has chosen, so we can assume that once again the presentation of Apple back to school, that is, at the beginning of September, will be the moment chosen to reveal to us , what this new generation of your smartphone will mean.

Apple always reserves the right to surprise us (sometimes for the better and sometimes not so good), so advances in the form of rumors and leaks can never be taken as completely reliable information. However, when the most reputable sources begin to observe a consensus on the matter, we can begin to give it more credence and therefore assume that what they have advanced is more likely to eventually be confirmed when the time comes. And in this, of course, the history of the person who predicted and/or published the leak also adds or subtracts points.

So, if we talk about Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo is one of those voices that is usually taken into account as a result of his high success rate. Of course, it is not an oracle, but in the past it gave us a lot of information, later confirmed. And now, as he’s published on Medium, he’s telling us The iPhone 16 generation will be a minor update and it will be clearly visible in the sales numbers of these terminals, predicting a drop of up to 15% compared to the current generation.

In practice, this decrease would be reflected in Apple would lose the number one position in the smartphone market, after he managed to wrest it from Samsung (which would get it back) in March of last year. However, there are still many months in which there could be leaks that cause interest in the iPhone 16 to increase, so it is still quite early to take this estimate as something truly reliable.

However, it appears to be This year, Apple will focus on the operating system, with the arrival of iOS 18, which aims to be the real star of this year. After a rather late response to the boom in artificial intelligence combined with a certain inactivity in the modernization of Siri since the beginning of last year, Apple stepped on the accelerator, and according to many analyzes and leaks, we will see the fruits of this acceleration in the future version of the operating system that will reach users together with the iPhone 16. And this is not trivial, since it is possible that we will see very interesting news in this regard, but it is also possible that Apple reserves it exclusively for the future generation of smartphones.