From the sound of it, we could be getting an iPhone 16e follow-up next year. But the biggest question around this rumored iPhone 17e is not what it will deliver, but whether we even need it.
Reports of an update to Apple's midrange phone can be traced to one source — a leaker posting on Weibo that an iPhone 17e is entering trial production. That would put the device on track to arrive next May, a little more than a year after Apple launched the iPhone 16e.
