Apple iPhone 14: All the Release Date, Price and Other Rumors

Apple launched the iPhone 13 lineup in 2021, and this 12 months we’re anticipating a model new iPhone collection, the iPhone 14. It is going to seemingly make an look in the subsequent a number of weeks– probably on Sept. 7, if rumors are to be believed. However in the meantime, followers nonetheless have loads of questions. Will Apple elevate costs for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional? When’s the new iPhone’s launch date? And, what is going to it even appear to be? 

Apple’s newest iPhone replace, iOS 16, offers us just a few clues. However in an effort to piece collectively what’s in retailer for Apple’s 2022 flagship, we’re amassing all the rumors about the iPhone 14, from potential design modifications to worth. We even have a want record of options we wish to see on the upcoming iPhone.


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Early renders of the iPhone 14 from Jon Prosser recommend a notchless design and flush digital camera setup.


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iPhone 14 lineup rumors: Will there nonetheless be 4 telephones?

We nonetheless do not know a lot about the iPhone 14, however we have heard that Apple’s subsequent lineup will nix the Mini and concentrate on bigger telephones as an alternative. A 2021 report from Nikkei Asian Evaluate predicted the dying of the iPhone 14 Mini, and a analysis word from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by MacRumors additionally steered that the Mini was not lengthy for this world. Nevertheless, Kuo reported, the iPhone 14 lineup will nonetheless comprise 4 fashions, a “high-end” and a “lower-end,” with two dimension choices for every.

Whereas identify hypothesis is not as germane to the dialogue of Apple’s 2022 lineup because it was for unfortunate 13, rumors recommend a small shift in naming conventions, with an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Professional, iPhone 14 Max and iPhone 14 Professional Max, with “Professional” designating higher-end specs and “Max” referring to the bigger display dimension.

Learn extra: iPhone 13 vs. 13 Mini vs. Professional vs. Professional Max

iPhone 14 dimension rumors: How massive will screens be?

Apple’s final two iPhone lineups have featured the identical 6.1-inch dimension for the base mannequin, going as much as 6.7 inches for the Professional Max. In keeping with the identical Nikkei Asian Evaluate report, Apple will follow these sizes for the iPhone 14, however delete the 5.4-inch Mini. This rumor is corroborated by a March report from 9to5Mac. Experiences confirmed sluggish gross sales of the iPhone 12 Mini, so it will be no shock ought to Apple retire the small telephone in 2022.

Though the dimension of the subsequent iPhone is anticipated to remain the identical, the show bezels for the Professional Max are rumored to be 20 % smaller in comparison with earlier iPhone generations, in line with CAD renders shared by Twitter leaker ShrimpApplePro. This implies the display can be barely bigger. Nevertheless, it is essential to notice that this rumor ought to be taken with a grain of salt since ShrimpApplePro does not have an intensive observe report to help their speculations.

Rumored iPhone 14 display sizes

iPhone 14 6.1 inches
iPhone 14 Professional 6.1 inches
iPhone 14 Max 6.7 inches
iPhone 14 Professional Max 6.7 inches
An iPhone sits on a wood table next to a coffee cup

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Release date: Will the iPhone 14 arrive in the fall?

There have not but been many respected launch date rumors for the iPhone 14, however a current Bloomberg report suggests the new iPhone will make its debut at a launch occasion on Sept. 7 and go on sale Sept. 16. 

Apple holds its annual fall iPhone occasion in September virtually yearly, with the telephones being launched shortly thereafter, often the Friday of the following week. Generally Apple will stagger launch dates for particular fashions, particularly when introducing a brand new design or dimension. So it is potential that the iPhone 14 lineup may have a couple of launch date.

Here is what we all know: 

  • Apple likes to carry its occasions on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Apple’s iPhone 13 occasion was held on Tuesday, Sept. 14.
  • iPhone launch dates are usually per week and a half after Apple’s bulletins. 
  • On the whole, new iPhones are launched on a Friday, round the third week of September. For the iPhone 13, preorders started Sept. 17 and the telephones went on sale Sept. 24.

A number of years in the past, CNET took a deep dive into the Apple occasion timeline and emerged with a compelling Labor Day speculation, which you’ll be able to examine right here. Based mostly on the 2022 calendar, the Labor Day rule would put the September Apple occasion (and unveiling of the iPhone 14) on the identical dates steered in Bloomberg’s report. Nevertheless, our Labor Day speculation was per week off for 2021 — and, due to coronavirus delays, a few month off in 2020

Learn extra: iPhone 13 vs. iPhone 12

iPhone 14 worth: How a lot will Apple’s 2022 iPhone price?

Apple did not make any main worth modifications between 2020’s iPhone 12 and 2021’s iPhone 13. However with greater modifications anticipated to be on the manner for the iPhone 14, it is cheap to imagine that Apple could elevate costs in 2022. 

The brand new iPhone may even see a $100 worth enhance, in line with Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives. “Costs have been rising throughout the complete provide chain, and Cupertino must move these prices to the client on this launch,” Ives informed The Solar. Kuo additionally estimates that Apple could enhance the worth for its new iPhone.

Nevertheless, different rumors recommend that the iPhone 14 will share the identical worth as final 12 months’s mannequin, or might be even cheaper. A Korean leaker who goes by the deal with yeux1122 suggests Apple plans to “freeze” the worth of the base mannequin of the iPhone 14. 

For reference, here is how a lot every model of the iPhone 13 lineup price at launch.

iPhone 13 pricing

128GB 256GB 512GB 1TB
iPhone 13 Mini $699 $799 $999 N/A
iPhone 13 $799 $899 $1,099 N/A
iPhone 13 Professional $999 $1,099 $1,299 $1,499
iPhone 13 Professional Max $1,099 $1,199 $1,399 $1,599

Digital camera rumors: A greater front-facing digital camera and extra for the iPhone 14?

Apple could have just a few digital camera upgrades in retailer for the upcoming iPhone 14. Rumors say the tech big has chosen a brand new provider for its front-facing digital camera to make a higher-end lens. In keeping with a report from Korean tech website ET Information, citing unnamed business sources, South Korean provider LG Innotek will present the new selfie digital camera for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional. 

Kuo additionally shared insights about the iPhone 14’s potential digital camera upgrades in an buyers word reported on by 9to5Mac simply after the iPhone 13 launch. In the word, Kuo predicts a hole-punch entrance digital camera, making the iPhone 14 notchless, in addition to a 48-megapixel large rear digital camera for the Professional and Professional Max fashions, up from 12 megapixels on earlier iPhones.

Show analyst Ross Younger hypothesizes, nevertheless, that the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max may have a hole-and-pill formed design to accommodate for the front-facing digital camera and Face ID. The opening cutout is believed to be for the Face ID dot projector, and the pill-shaped cutout holds the entrance digital camera and Face ID digital camera, in line with a January report from MacRumors. Supposedly leaked CAD renders of the iPhone 14, seen by 91mobiles, corroborate this rumor.

Kuo’s hypothesis concerning the digital camera’s megapixel capability aligns with each a current analysis word from Haitong Worldwide Securities, additionally reported on by MacRumors, and a report from analysis firm TrendForce. Each Jeff Pu and TrendForce hypothesize the two Professional fashions might be outfitted with a 48-megapixel large lens. Pu, nevertheless, provides that the iPhones will sport a triple-lens rear digital camera system with a 12-megapixel ultrawide and telephoto lenses along with the 48-megapixel large lens. The analyst provides that the Professional variations of the iPhone 14 may sport 8GB of RAM, as properly. (As compared, the iPhone 13 Professional and Professional Max have 6GB.) That is corroborated by a report from a Korean weblog that cites home provide chain sources, as MacRumors noticed.

iPhone 13 digital camera upgrades embody a brand new Cinematic modeProRes video and some enhancements in zoom capabilities. We had beforehand reported on rumors that the complete lineup would characteristic lidar, the iPhone 12 Professional’s standout depth-sensing characteristic, however lidar ended up making an look solely on the iPhone 13 Professional and Professional Max in any case. It is potential Apple may develop the characteristic to its full lineup in 2022 as an alternative, however we have not heard something but. 

One other of the digital camera options we’re nonetheless ready on is an improved telephoto lens. Whereas the iPhone 13 Professional’s zoom capabilities got a 3x optical zoom, it nonetheless pales compared to quite a lot of competitor flagships, together with Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Extremely, which boasts a 10x optical zoom.

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iPhone 14 may have a digital camera setup that is flush with the again of the telephone, nixing the chunky digital camera bump.


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Design rumors: iPhone 14 is likely to be notchless… or will it?

YouTuber and iPhone leaker Jon Prosser (whose observe report is admittedly spotty) made waves the week earlier than the iPhone 13 announcement by releasing renders he commissioned of the iPhone 14 Professional Max primarily based on “actual photographs and schematics” leaked to him from purported sources at Apple. 

Prosser’s renders corroborate quite a few beforehand reported rumors, together with the notchless show and hole-punch digital camera beforehand reported by Kuo, and the iPhone 14 Professional’s titanium alloy chassis, which was first referenced in a 2021 report from JPMorgan Chase. We would been anticipating to see the iPhone 13 go notchless, however as an alternative we acquired a slimmed-down, however nonetheless very notchy, notch. Apple launched the world to the notched show in 2017 with the launch of the iPhone X, and as rivals solved the selfie conundrum with hole-punch and under-display cameras, Apple nonetheless hasn’t, er, taken it down a notch. 

Learn extra: iPhone 14 Design Rumors

However Prosser’s renders appear to align with these earlier experiences that Apple would lastly excise the iPhone’s notch in 2022. And Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman additionally hinted at its elimination in a September version of his Energy On e-newsletter, whereby he predicted a “full redesign” for the iPhone 14, whereas Younger says Apple may introduce a hole-and-pill formed design for the new iPhone. This hole-and-pill show emerged in schematics on Chinese language social media website Weibo, and had been later shared by Prosser. 

Those that’ve been crossing their fingers for a notchless iPhone since the iPhone 12 and had their hopes dashed as soon as once more by the iPhone 13 can probably now sit up for a possible realization of their all-screen desires in 2022’s iPhone 14. 

Nevertheless, earlier than you get too excited, there is a risk that not all the iPhone 14 fashions will get a brand new notchless design. MySmartPrice printed supposed CAD renders of the iPhone 14 in March, depicting — you guessed it — a notch. However renders of the 14 Professional mannequin printed the day earlier than on 91Mobiles do present a notchless show. If these rumors show true, it appears such as you’ll must spring for the Professional with a view to do away with the notch.

An iPhone with a green display against a black background

A schematic of the iPhone 14’s show, shared to YouTube by Jon Prosser.


Jon Prosser

iPhone 14 says buh-bye to the digital camera bump however will it hold the Lightning port?

The opposite large design change Prosser’s renders present is a flattened digital camera bump. In keeping with Prosser, the iPhone 14’s physique goes to be a “thick boy,” thick sufficient, it appears, to embody all the digital camera {hardware} with out an annoying, protruding digital camera setup on the again. Why is the iPhone 14 speculated to be so thick? Maybe to deal with a much bigger battery, and even the beforehand rumored periscope digital camera, which Kuo projected in 2020. Nevertheless, Kuo and famed tech leaker Max Weinbach have really pointed to a thicker digital camera bump in the 14 Professional and Professional Max.

Two prior rumors that will not pan out, in line with Prosser no less than, are the dying of the Lightning port and the addition of USB-C (the EU could pressure Apple so as to add USB-C ports to iPhones, nevertheless). Rumors of a utterly portless iPhone have been circulating for some time, nevertheless it seems these will not come true in 2022.

iPhone 14 shade rumors: Pale gold, maybe?

So far as colours go, Prosser’s render colours weren’t primarily based on any precise info from his sources, aside from a pale gold shade, which he claims to have seen proof of himself. Nevertheless, like all different rumored specs, we cannot know the true shade choices for the iPhone 14 till it is launched.

Five iPhones in different colors sit side by side

The iPhone 13 lineup got here in a rainbow of latest hues.


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Rumored iPhone 14 options and specs?

Here is every thing else we all know (and suppose we all know) up to now about the iPhone 14 lineup’s specs and potential new options.

An always-on lock display

Apple’s iOS 16 will embody an always-on mode for the lock display, in line with Bloomberg. This characteristic, nevertheless, could also be unique to the high-end iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max. 

Higher battery life

Apple’s 2022 iPhone may supply higher battery life, in line with a report from Taiwan’s Financial Every day Information (by way of MacRumors). That is stated to be because of a brand new 5G chip that would additionally present the new iPhone with Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. 

A bigger battery capability for every mannequin in the iPhone 14 lineup may additionally contribute to the higher battery life. In keeping with ShrimpApplePro, the commonplace iPhone 14 could have a 3,279-mAh battery, whereas the iPhone 14 Professional Max could sport a 4,323-mAh battery. 

Wi-Fi 6E adoption

The iPhone 14 might be outfitted with Wi-Fi 6E, in line with a November word from Kuo, reported on by 9to5Mac. Nevertheless, the analyst says the parts wanted for Wi-Fi 6E could also be briefly provide. Apple’s rumored VR headset can be stated to have Wi-Fi 6E

A16 chip

Earlier hypothesis was that the complete iPhone 14 collection would improve to an A16 chip, bettering upon the final iPhone‘s A15 chip consistent with Apple’s earlier sample. Nevertheless, Kuo predicted in March that the A16 will solely seem in the iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max, whereas the 14 and 14 Max will hold the A15. 

120Hz ProMotion show

All iPhone 14 fashions may embody Apple’s ProMotion show, which solely the iPhone 13 Professional and Professional Max variants presently have. ProMotion boosts the display’s refresh charge for smoother efficiency, as much as 120Hz. That is extra hypothesis than precise rumor, primarily based on modifications in Apple’s provide chain that will make it simpler for the firm to supply the characteristic throughout its subsequent lineup.

Younger, nevertheless, speculates that Apple will proceed to supply ProMotion shows completely to its Professional fashions. The analyst means that Chinese language producer BOE can be considered one of Apple’s LTPO OLED show suppliers, however the firm does not have a big manufacturing capability proper now. 

5G connectivity 

Apple launched 5G connectivity to its iPhone 12 lineup and, unsurprisingly, included it in the iPhone 13 as properly. There is no motive to imagine we cannot see 5G-compatible iPhone 14s, too. A 2021 report from Nikkei Asian Evaluate additionally predicts Apple will “go all in on 5G” in 2022.

MagSafe equipment

Like 5G, MagSafe was launched to the iPhone in 2020’s iPhone 12 lineup. The snap-on, magnetic equipment embody wallets, battery packs and chargers, and it was considered one of our favourite iPhone 12 options. The iPhone 13 can be suitable with MagSafe, and we count on the identical for Apple’s subsequent era of telephones.

Satellite tv for pc connectivity

An Eleventh-hour iPhone 13 rumor by way of Kuo that did not come to fruition was the addition of satellite tv for pc connectivity, which might permit customers to ship textual content messages by way of satellite tv for pc in areas with out mobile protection, no less than in emergency conditions, as reported by Bloomberg. Alas, satellite tv for pc connectivity is nowhere to be present in the iPhone 13 lineup, however maybe meaning it is coming in the iPhone 14 as an alternative.

Apple MagSafe battery pack on a purple iPhone 12

The Apple MagSafe Battery Pack on the iPhone 12.


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Keep tuned for extra iPhone 14 information because it comes out, and in the meantime, take a look at CNET’s critiques of the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini, and the iPhone 13 Professional and 13 Professional Max. Plus, here is how all 4 iPhone 13 fashions evaluate, how the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 differ, whether or not it is sensible to purchase an iPhone 12 or iPhone 11, and how all of Apple’s iPhones from the previous 5 years stack up. And here is every thing to find out about the iPhone SE 2022.