Apple iPhone 14: Every Rumor About Release Date, Price and More

Apple releases a brand new iPhone yearly. In 2021, we received the iPhone 13 lineup, and this 12 months we’re anticipating the iPhone 14. With a number of weeks left till the brand new iPhone’s rumored launch date, followers nonetheless have loads of questions. Will Apple elevate costs for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional? When will the brand new iPhone hit cabinets? And, what is going to it even seem like? 

Apple’s newest iPhone replace, iOS 16, offers us a couple of clues. However in an effort to piece collectively what’s in retailer for Apple’s 2022 flagship, we’re accumulating all of the rumors in regards to the iPhone 14, from attainable design modifications to value. 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 counsel 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 in regards to the iPhone 14, however we have heard that Apple’s subsequent lineup will nix the Mini and give attention to bigger telephones as an alternative. A 2021 report from Nikkei Asian Overview predicted the dying of the iPhone 14 Mini, and a analysis observe from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by MacRumors additionally instructed that the Mini was not lengthy for this world. Nonetheless, Kuo reported, the iPhone 14 lineup will nonetheless comprise 4 fashions, a “high-end” and a “lower-end,” with two measurement 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 counsel 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 measurement.

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

iPhone 14 measurement rumors: How giant will screens be?

Apple’s final two iPhone lineups have featured the identical 6.1-inch measurement for the bottom mannequin, going as much as 6.7 inches for the Professional Max. In keeping with the identical Nikkei Asian Overview report, Apple will keep on with 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 scale of the following iPhone is predicted to remain the identical, the show bezels for the Professional Max are rumored to be 20 % smaller in comparison with earlier iPhone generations, in accordance with CAD renders shared by Twitter leaker ShrimpApplePro. This implies the display could be barely bigger. Nonetheless, it is essential to notice that this rumor must be taken with a grain of salt since ShrimpApplePro would 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
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Release date: Will the iPhone 14 arrive within the fall?

There have not but been many respected launch date rumors for the iPhone 14, however we anticipate Apple to carry its annual fall iPhone occasion in September, because it does virtually yearly, with the telephones being launched shortly thereafter, often the next Friday. Generally Apple will stagger launch dates for particular fashions, particularly when introducing a brand new design or measurement. So it is attainable that the iPhone 14 lineup may have a couple of launch date.

This 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. 
  • Usually, new iPhones are launched on a Friday, across the third week of September. For the iPhone 13, preorders started Sept. 17 and the telephones went on sale Sept. 24.

Just a few 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 examine right here. Primarily based on the 2022 calendar, the Labor Day rule would put the September Apple occasion (and unveiling of the iPhone 14) on Sept. 7, with a Sept. 16 launch date. Nonetheless, our Labor Day speculation was per week off for 2021 — and, due to coronavirus delays, a couple of month off in 2020

Learn extra: iPhone 13 vs. iPhone 12

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

Apple did not make any main value modifications between 2020’s iPhone 12 and 2021’s iPhone 13. However with larger modifications anticipated to be on the way in which for the iPhone 14, it is cheap to consider that Apple might elevate costs in 2022. 

The brand new iPhone may even see a $100 value improve, in accordance with Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives. “Costs have been growing throughout the entire provide chain, and Cupertino must go these prices to the patron on this launch,” Ives instructed The Solar. Kuo additionally estimates that Apple might improve the worth for its new iPhone.

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

For reference, here is how a lot every model of the iPhone 13 lineup value 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 might have a couple of 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 web site ET Information, citing unnamed trade sources, South Korean provider LG Innotek will present the brand new selfie digital camera for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional. 

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

Show analyst Ross Younger hypothesizes, nonetheless, 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 outlet 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 accordance with a January report from MacRumors. Supposedly leaked CAD renders of the iPhone 14, seen by 91mobiles, corroborate this rumor.

Kuo’s hypothesis relating to the digital camera’s megapixel capability aligns with each a latest analysis observe from Haitong Worldwide Securities, additionally reported on by MacRumors, and a report from analysis firm TrendForce. Each Jeff Pu and TrendForce hypothesize the 2 Professional fashions shall be outfitted with a 48-megapixel broad lens. Pu, nonetheless, 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 broad lens. The analyst provides that the Professional variations of the iPhone 14 might sport 8GB of RAM, as nicely. (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 embrace a brand new Cinematic modeProRes video and some enhancements in zoom capabilities. We had beforehand reported on rumors that all the lineup would function lidar, the iPhone 12 Professional’s standout depth-sensing function, however lidar ended up making an look solely on the iPhone 13 Professional and Professional Max in any case. It is attainable Apple would possibly increase the function 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 plenty of competitor flagships, together with Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Extremely, which boasts a 10x optical zoom.

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


Jon Prosser

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Design rumors: iPhone 14 could 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 based mostly on “actual photos and schematics” leaked to him from purported sources at Apple. 

Prosser’s renders corroborate a lot of 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 received a slimmed-down, however nonetheless very notchy, notch. Apple launched the world to the notched show in 2017 with the discharge 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 might introduce a hole-and-pill formed design for the brand new iPhone. This hole-and-pill show emerged in schematics on Chinese language social media web site Weibo, and have been later shared by Prosser. 

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

Nonetheless, earlier than you get too excited, there is a risk that not all of the iPhone 14 fashions will get a brand new notchless design. MySmartPrice revealed supposed CAD renders of the iPhone 14 in March, depicting — you guessed it — a notch. However renders of the 14 Professional mannequin revealed the day earlier than on 91Mobiles do present a notchless show. If these rumors show true, it appears to be like such as you’ll should spring for the Professional with the intention 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 preserve the Lightning port?

The opposite massive 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 of the digital camera {hardware} with out an annoying, protruding digital camera setup on the again. Why is the iPhone 14 alleged 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. Nonetheless, Kuo and famed tech leaker Max Weinbach have really pointed to a thicker digital camera bump within the 14 Professional and Professional Max.

Two prior rumors that will not pan out, in accordance with Prosser no less than, are the dying of the Lightning port and the addition of USB-C (the EU might power Apple so as to add USB-C ports to iPhones, nonetheless). Rumors of a fully portless iPhone have been circulating for some time, but it surely 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 based mostly on any precise info from his sources, apart from a pale gold shade, which he claims to have seen proof of himself. Nonetheless, like all different rumored specs, we can’t 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?

This is every thing else we all know (and assume we all know) to date in regards to the iPhone 14 lineup’s specs and potential new options.

An always-on lock display

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

Higher battery life

Apple’s 2022 iPhone might provide higher battery life, in accordance with a report from Taiwan’s Financial Day by day Information (by way of MacRumors). That is mentioned to be as a consequence of a brand new 5G chip that would additionally present the brand new iPhone with Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. 

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

Wi-Fi 6E adoption

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

A16 chip

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

120Hz ProMotion show

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

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

5G connectivity 

Apple launched 5G connectivity to its iPhone 12 lineup and, unsurprisingly, included it within the iPhone 13 as nicely. There isn’t any purpose to consider we can’t see 5G-compatible iPhone 14s, too. A 2021 report from Nikkei Asian Overview 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 embrace wallets, battery packs and chargers, and it was considered one of our favourite iPhone 12 options. The iPhone 13 can also be appropriate with MagSafe, and we anticipate the identical for Apple’s subsequent technology 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 discovered within the iPhone 13 lineup, however maybe which means it is coming within 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 within the meantime, take a look at CNET’s opinions 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 examine, how the iPhone 13 and iPhone 12 differ, whether or not it is smart 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 know in regards to the iPhone SE 2022.