We’re still several months away from a formal announcement, but that doesn’t stop leaks and rumors. Here’s what we know.
Look, I get it. It’s way too early to start talking about Apple’s next iPhone. Heck, the iPhone 12 hasn’t even been out for a full six months, and yet, here we are, talking about what Apple may be working on for its next phone. But rumors are already starting to circulate. While the rumors don’t give us a ton of information right now, we can make some educated guesses about details, while the rest will have to wait to be filled in as we get closer to the fall timeframe when Apple usually announces new phone hardware. Apple has traditionally used a tick-tock approach to updating iPhone design, hardware, and names. For example, the iPhone 6 was followed by the iPhone 6S. However, recently, we’ve seen the company ditch the S-series in favor of increasing the name by one like it did with the release of the iPhone 12 only a year after the iPhone 11. Either name could be in our future, but for ease of identifying a new iPhone, we’re going to go with iPhone 13 until Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out on stage and calls it something else. Typically, Apple announces new iPhone models sometime in September and then releases them a few weeks later. That timing was pushed back a bit in 2020 due to the pandemic, with the iPhone 12 lineup launch split between Oct.
