Here’s our first look at the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus

The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are official, pinch Action Buttons inherited from the 15 Pro and a caller look for nan camera bump. We’ve conscionable gotten immoderate hands-on clip pinch them successful Cupertino, California, pursuing nan announcement, and nan awesome news is that colour is back, baby: they look great.

The rear cameras are now stacked vertically connected a smaller pill-shaped camera bump. This statement is amended suited for capturing spatial video, lest we each hide astir the Vision Pro. It’s besides conscionable a caller look for nan regular iPhone, and Apple likes to propulsion 1 successful each fewer years to shingle things up.

They travel pinch nan aforesaid size screens arsenic their predecessors: a 6.1-inch show connected nan iPhone 16 and a 6.7-inch show connected nan 16 Plus. Other than nan once-again vertical lenses, nan creation hasn’t changed overmuch — but nan 16s do travel successful a fewer caller and much vivid colors. They’re overmuch much saturated than nan washed-out colors of nan 15 series, pinch vibrant caller ultramarine, teal, and pinkish options joining achromatic and black.

But these non-Pro iPhone 16 models besides get an all-new feature: nan “camera control” that acts arsenic a dedicated shutter fastener and a measurement to alteration various settings some successful nan Camera app and elsewhere. The caller fastener comes alongside immoderate different camera upgrades to nan 16, which now has nan “equivalent” of 4 lenses contempt only having 2 lenses.

There are different updates that are little evidently visual, too. The iPhone 16 besides comes pinch nan caller A18 chip, which is supposedly 30 percent faster than past year’s model, and is supposedly much rugged and little prone to scratching aliases shattering. That’s each bully news, though nan caller spot will matter astir erstwhile Apple Intelligence arrives, which whitethorn not beryllium until 2025. A caller “glowed-up” Siri is simply a centerpiece of Apple’s suite of AI features, but it’s 1 that astir group will person to hold a small spot longer for.

The 16 and 16 Plus will beryllium disposable adjacent week starting astatine $799. Will nan caller buttons make them worthy nan upgrade? That’s what I’m going to find retired arsenic soon arsenic I tin get my hands connected them for longer than an afternoon.