Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will come with 12GB RAM.
Apple Intelligence, the AI initiative on iPhone models, requires that an iPhone sport a minimum 8GB of RAM to support features such as email and website summarization, Clean Up, Writing Tools, and more. The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus only have 6GB of RAM compared to the 8GB of memory on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. That is why those models cannot run Apple’s AI features.
All four 2024 iPhone 16 models are rumored to come with 8GB of RAM which is why all iPhone 16 models will run Apple Intelligence. It also points to the possibility that record numbers of iPhone owners will be upgrading to a new iPhone 16 model this year. As for next year, the rumors have been all over the place.
There have been rumors about all four iPhone 17 models being equipped with 12GB of RAM so that all of the phones, which would include the new iPhone Air, could support more complex AI features.
