Everything we think we know about the next iPhone SE

Apple is expected to denote a caller iPhone SE as early arsenic adjacent week, and it could people a awesome shakeup to the company’s affordable iPhone, adding successful Face ID and sidesplitting disconnected the classical location button. We person a beautiful bully thought of what’s coming aft months of leaks and rumors, truthful here’s everything we expect to spot adjacent week.

The biggest alteration is that Apple is upending the iPhone SE’s design, aft leaving it broadly unchanged since the series’ inception successful 2016. The 2022 SE is the past iPhone still utilizing a location button, pinch a heavy bezel astir the apical and bottommost of the screen. But rumors opportunity Apple will now ditch the button, slim the bezel, and adhd Face ID.

The consequence will beryllium a telephone that looks for illustration the iPhone 14 from the front. Like that phone, it’s expected to spot its Face ID sensors successful a notch, alternatively than utilizing the little obtrusive Dynamic Island creation that was introduced successful the 14 Pro and has been utilized successful each iPhone since then. Apple can’t defy keeping its SE bid conscionable a small down the times.

We’ve seen the notched creation successful a video shared by the leaker Majin Bu, which shows them handling what is apt a non-functional dummy unit, utilized by lawsuit manufacturers to creation and trial their accessories.

Bu’s video suggests that the SE 4 will see a customizable Action button, but not the Camera Control introduced connected the iPhone 16.

Like different SE models it appears to instrumentality to a azygous rear camera. One leaked spec database suggests that the SE will usage a 48 megapixel sensor connected the rear, pinch a 12 megapixel selfie camera connected the front, but this is an area wherever location person been fewer reports truthful far.

The redesign will let the 2025 SE to person a larger surface than the 4.7-inch sheet utilized by the 2022 model. It’s expected to alternatively usage a 6.1-inch display, the aforesaid size arsenic the modular iPhone 16, and will besides upgrade to OLED.

The bigger surface intends the telephone arsenic a full will beryllium larger than immoderate erstwhile iPhone SE, and location will nary longer beryllium immoderate iPhone smaller than the modular model. If we presume the caller telephone will person akin dimensions to the iPhone 16 past it could beryllium 9mm taller than the 2022 SE, and measurement astir 25g more.

It’s beautiful overmuch definite that the telephone will person a USB-C larboard alternatively than Lightning, allowing it to erstwhile again beryllium sold successful the EU. The erstwhile SE exemplary was discontinued successful EU markets on pinch each different iPhone utilizing a Lightning port.

On the inside, Bloomberg reports that the telephone will usage the aforesaid A18 spot arsenic the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro models. That’s the aforesaid attack Apple has utilized for its past 2 SE phones, which person paired the latest silicon pinch much dated designs. The A18 is expected to beryllium mixed pinch an summation to 8GB of RAM, the minimum required to tally Apple Intelligence, the company’s AI devices that supply notification summaries and different functionality, and are now enabled by default. That would each make it much powerful than 2023’s iPhone 15.

It will moreover hit this year’s iPhone 17 bid to feature Apple’s first in-house 5G modem, replacing the Qualcomm components that iPhones person utilized successful the past. Apple has been processing its ain modems for complete half a decade, but Bloomberg warns that the first loop is simply a “downgrade” from the modem successful the latest flagship iPhones, and won’t support mmWave 5G, only sub-6 — though that was true of the past iPhone SE too.

While erstwhile rumors person pointed to a motorboat successful March aliases April, Bloomberg reports that Apple will denote the telephone adjacent week, though doesn’t expect it to spell connected waste until later successful the month. It predicts a value of “roughly $500,” higher than the 2022 model’s starting value of $429. That whitethorn beryllium offset by a default retention spec of 128GB, meaning location would nary longer beryllium immoderate 64GB iPhone connected the market.

There’s besides a anticipation that it won’t beryllium called the iPhone SE aft all. Two leakers person predicted that it will alternatively beryllium called the iPhone 16E, though since the SE sanction has popped up much often we deliberation that’s still much likely.

If Bloomberg is right, we don’t person agelong to hold to find retired for sure. The SE would beryllium the first of respective large iPhone launches this year, pinch Apple tipped to uncover a slimmer iPhone 17 Air arsenic good arsenic “major updates” to the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro.