Apple's iPhone 16 Launch Event Is Set For September

Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 16 lineup on September 9th, 2024, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. The tech giant sent out invitations to the event today with the tagline: "It's Glowtime" -- a reference to the redesigned Siri with Apple Intelligence. The Verge reports: The big change to the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus is expected to be a switch to a vertically aligned camera system on the back. (If the final phones look like what we've seen on iPhone 16 dummy units, I'm already a big fan of this change.) The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max phones might get bigger screens but are rumored to keep Apple's familiar three-camera layout. Those phones could also come in a new bronze color.

All four iPhone 16 models are expected to have the Action Button, which was exclusive to the Pro line with the iPhone 15. Apple's new iPhones may also have a new button dedicated to capturing photos and videos, but it's unclear if that will be a Pro-exclusive feature or will be available on the regular iPhone 16 models as well. AI and the company's Apple Intelligence features will likely be a big part of Apple's event, too.

Apple will make announcement

[Big Hairy Gorilla]

Is not news.

Ooooh... an Action Button!!

Innovative beyond belief.
Apple fan boys discuss.

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[Powercntrl]

Ooooh... an Action Button!!

This is the part where I bitch about Apple changing something that was just fine the way it was. I flip the silence switch before bed and back when I'm ready to start my day. My schedule varies a bit, so it's not something I could just automate on the phone itself. It's something I've considered to be a dealbreaker on the pro series, because it'd be a hassle to have to deal with the UI to accomplish something that on my present phone is literally is just the flip of a switch.

I've previously joked that I'

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[thegarbz]

Apple fan boys discuss.

I can't right now. I just jizzed myself reading TFS and now I'm tired.

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[Big Hairy Gorilla]

+1 Funny

Re: Apple will make announcement

[muffen]

If(fanboyaccountbalance > $1000) ++Iphonemodel;

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[Malay2bowman]

Being able to start up the camera and take pictures immediately without clicking through apps would be nice. But I want this to be a redefinable button, including being redefined to "disabled". I might want a camera button, but someone else might just want it to activate a voice recorder and use it to start and pause the recording. Or maybe use it as another way to activate Siri. It's 2024, so how come it's so damn hard to have good and universal macro functionality in a smartphone?

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[broude]

This is a bit awkward. Everything you are complaining about, you have been able to do on an iphone for a while ....

There have been a camera and flashlight button on the lock screen for years now. So you have never had to click through apps to get to it.
The action button is also redefinable. You can pick if it mutes the phone, starts a recording, opens the camera, etc.
One of the options is to use an iOS shortcut, which is the macro you want...

On a side note, I haven't used the action button once in the year

Being slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Cue up the bitching about a $1500 phone while being silent on flagship android phones costing just as much.

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[thegarbz]

Cue up the bitching about a $1500 phone while being silent on flagship android phones costing just as much.

People don't bitch about the cost of flagship phones. They bitch about the lack of alternatives. You can buy two perfectly functional Android smartphones for the cost of the cheapest phone in the Apple ecosystem.

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[fropenn]

So don't buy one.

Competition is healthy for both Apple and Android and is really good for the consumer. Imagine how much Apple (or Android for that matter) would charge if there were no competitors. Having recently visited a theme park, I can tell you the prices would be at least 8x's higher.

Hearing/reading about Apple events

[RitchCraft]

Hearing and reading about Apple events is just as stupid and boring as watching grown men run around chasing a ball. Both are inevitable and once you've watched one you've pretty much watched them all.

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[Powercntrl]

The first iPhone announcement was innovative. The second (added 3G support), third (finally not slow as snot), fourth (higher res display), and fifth (added 4G support) releases addressed some of the major deficiencies present in each prior generation. Everything since then has just been playing catch-up with Android, up until the point the displays went OLED and gained a notch. Since then, they've just basically been releasing the same damn phone every year with an incremented number.

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[bleedingobvious]

The first iPhone announcement was innovative.

What, pray tell, was so innovative about announcing features already present in other phones at the time?

Re: Hearing/reading about Apple events

[zawarski]

Not being able to enjoy watching sports is a bug, not a feature.

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[RitchCraft]

It's a huge waste of time.

Please bring back mini!

[antdude]

I don't like big and heavy iPhones. Or last least make SE4 with newer hardware parts.

Apple slashdot?

[Vranitzky]

Can you please make a slashdot site for Apple fanboys? They think Apple is a big deal, but nobody else cares. Granted, Apple is big in the US, but over there they seem to be happy paying triple for everything... Weird country