The recently inaugurated spring and much of the summer still separates us from the presentation and launch of the iPhone 16, which surprisingly, It will see the light with the return to school in September 2024. A generation that, as its number suggests, is… the eighteenth. Yes, indeed, maybe the youngest people don’t remember, but until the arrival of the iPhone 4, then the 4S and so on, until the 6S, 7 and 8 had an S revision and from the 8 we jumped to the 10 (X) .

Be that as it may, we could finally get used to it the number of each generation is easily deduced, well, we’ll have to add 1 to the previous one. Thanks, the decimal system, thanks to Simon Stevin, thanks to Gabriel Mouton, thanks to Napoleon (although he later lost credit for obvious reasons). Just because a number and its corresponding generations have remained in the past does not mean that they have disappeared forever.

And no, don’t worry, I won’t get all “they will live as long as we remember them etc”, no, I mean as you well know, Apple specialized in restoring old designs (ie from past generations) for reuse in future generations. Sometimes this relates to the design of the phone itself, while on other occasions, like the one we’re dealing with now, it’s limited to a specific element of it.

The first cases for the iPhone 16 pic.twitter.com/xCUOldA8I2

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We find ourselves facing escape and therefore we must take it with a grain of salt (with a grain of salt, as the Anglo-Saxons say), but it seems The iPhone 16 will refresh the design of the iPhone X camera modulean arrangement that had not happened until then and which was exclusive to it, because although the iPhone 11 also contained two cameras arranged vertically (one above the other), Apple adopted the characteristic square design of the module, which has survived to this day.

In this way, it looks like Apple is considering giving this more subtle design another shot, which is also aesthetically pleasing. It would serve to better differentiate the standard iPhone 16 models from the Proin which we can bet that the angular design that so many people already associate with an Apple smartphone will remain.

However, there is another possibility, that in fact the case that this leaker had access to is not the case of the iPhone 16, but the future generation of the iPhone SE, which according to (unofficial) data is more We expect the latest cases until 2025. If however, this deadline will be kept, it seems a little early for the covers to be made, which detracts from this possibility somewhat.