Every fall, the lineup of best iPhones gets reshuffled, as Apple introduces new models, marks down some existing phones and discontinues others. Look for that to happen again this year when the new iPhone 16 models arrive, and Apple decides which current devices will stay and which it will drop.
But things are a little bit different this year, thanks to the upcoming iOS 18 update. We're all well aware of the likelihood that Apple's software update is going to lean in heavily on adding new features powered by artificial intelligence. More recently, it's become clear that some current iPhones won't be able to run those features unless they can offload them to cloud. Or that's what the rumors are suggesting, at any rate.
