Apple iPhone 16: Price, release date, specs and how to pre-order

The wait is lastly over. After greater than a yr of frantic ideas and rumours, Apple has lastly unveiled the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max to the world at its “Glowtime” occasion.

One of the crucial thrilling upgrades to the line-up in years, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional are full of the corporate’s new Apple Intelligence smarts by way of iOS 18, making Siri extra helpful and your iPhone apps extra linked than ever earlier than. However as leaked forward of time, the AI options have been delayed, with Apple confirming they received’t come to the UK till December.

Design-wise, the newest handsets boast a brand new DSLR-like digital camera management button on the aspect for taking footage and movies. A single click on launches the digital camera, one other click on takes an image, whereas a click on and maintain data a video. You may slide your finger throughout the button to zoom out and in and swipe by way of options. Each boast higher digital camera arrays for the right shot.

The iPhone 16 Professional line-up additionally options bigger 6.3in and 6.9in shows and the tiniest bezels. They’ve greater batteries, even slimmer bezels and an excellent new desert titanium colourway, in addition to a brand new A18 Professional Bionic chip that makes Apple’s new iPhone quicker and extra highly effective than ever earlier than, able to tackle any AI-based on-device process.

On prime of the brand new iPhone 16, Apple additionally unveiled two new AirPods fashions and a brand new Apple Watch Sequence 10. The smartphones will formally launch on Friday 20 September, however you’ll be capable of pre-order all 4 handsets beginning this Friday 13 September. You may even pre-configure your chosen iPhone 16 now in order that when the time comes, you may rapidly skip to the entrance and place your pre-order.

When are you able to pre-order the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional within the UK?

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The iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max will likely be out there to pre-order within the UK from 1pm BST on Friday 13 September (spooky!). You’ll be capable of pre-order instantly from Apple, however different retailers, together with Amazon, Currys and cell carriers must also leap in with their very own pre-orders and contract offers on the identical day.

As talked about above, you may already pre-configure your chosen iPhone 16, together with the mannequin, color, storage dimension, trade-in and Apple Care choices. Plus, you may even add your fee particulars on Apple’s web site. Apple will save all of your preferences, so all you have to do is verify that all the things’s right and click on the pre-order button, skipping the entire hubbub you used to slog by way of on iPhone pre-order day.

Apple iPhone 16 value: How a lot does the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional value within the UK?

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Whereas rumours forward of the iPhone launch recommended that elements of successive iPhones had been getting more and more costly and tougher for Apple to soak up, the whole iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max stay the very same value because the iPhone 15 line-up.

The bottom iPhone 16, which encompasses a new 48MP digital camera system, a much bigger battery and the brand new digital camera management button begins from £799 for the 128GB mannequin, whereas the bigger iPhone 16 Plus begins from £899.

The iPhone 16 Professional begins from £999 for the 128GB mannequin, which is identical value because the iPhone 15 Professional at launch, whereas the iPhone 16 Professional Max begins from £1,199 for the 256GB fashions.

What iPhone 16 pre-order offers may we see this yr?

Carriers received’t be revealing their pre-order offers till Friday, however turning again the clock to the iPhone 15 launch may present some clues as to what iPhone 16 offers we may see. With the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional costing the identical because the iPhone 15, we don’t count on provider offers to vary too closely.

The perfect iPhone 15 Professional Max deal we noticed final yr was from Sky Cell. The cellphone provider was providing up the handset for £39 per thirty days on a 36-month contract with no up-front value. You had so as to add on an information plan, with an 8GB plan costing £8. Altogether, you would need to pay £47 over 36 months. We’re anticipating to see offers across the identical value this yr for the iPhone 16 Professional Max.

In the event you didn’t thoughts paying an up-front value, Mobiles.co.uk had the perfect iPhone 15 Professional deal at launch. The web retailer, owned by Currys, was providing up a 24-month contract for £39.99 per thirty days with 100GB of knowledge. The one catch was you needed to pay £149 up-front. Hopefully, Mobiles.co.uk will scale back this up-front value, whereas conserving the identical month-to-month cost for the iPhone 16 Professional.

In the event you had been in search of a deal on the bottom iPhone 16, Sky had the most cost effective month-to-month deal on the handset. You paid simply £26 per thirty days over 36 months, and there was no up-front value. Once more, you had so as to add on an £8 information plan, bringing the worth as much as £34 per thirty days, but it surely was nonetheless a greater deal than different carriers. We must always hopefully see related this yr for the bottom mannequin iPhone 16.  

And if you happen to’re trying to purchase the iPhone 16 outright, it’s price profiting from trade-in offers from the likes of Apple and Amazon. Final yr, Apple was providing as much as £715 of credit score if you happen to traded in your outdated gadget for the brand new mannequin, and Amazon was providing as much as £484 in credit score. All of that goes a great distance in paying for the shiny new mannequin.

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