The iPhone rumors game can often have something of a bait-and-switch character. From afar, product releases are heralded as groundbreaking and radical (the iPhone 13 will be portless! The iPhone 15 will fold! The iPhone 16 Pro will have Face ID under the screen!), but when launch time approaches they are found instead to be iterative and disappointing… while the next model is promptly talked up as everything its predecessor failed to be. You can repeat this pattern pretty much ad infinitum.
For this reason, I will understand, even applaud, the instinct among regular readers to treat the headline of this article with the skepticism I’ve recommended in the past. We’ve all been burned before, and will probably be burned again. Every summer, we are told that the iPhone launching in three months will be dull and the one coming in 15 months will be amazing, and it never seems to actually happen. Why would the 2025/2026 cycle be any different?
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