Rumors about the next iPhone start nearly immediately after the latest iPhone gets released — and sometimes even earlier than that. So it's safe to say that as a writer who's livelihood depends a great deal on Apple's various comings and goings, I've had the iPhone 16 on the brain about the same time Tim Cook was triumphantly holding up the iPhone 15 at last year's launch event.
That's a lot of time for rumors to circulate with some reported features sticking around while others quickly fade from view. Remember how we were supposed to get an iPhone 16 Ultra this year? Well, that's unlikely to happen now, but maybe stick it on the rapidly growing pile of iPhone 17 rumors for us to kick around later this fall.
