There’s one weird habit they picked up in these last two years. Out of the blue, Apple skimped on the SoC upgrades for the non-Pro iPhone 14s that year. Only iPhone 14 Pros got their SoC replaced from A15 to A16. It felt odd at first. But when they did the same thing with the iPhone 15 series. We knew it was going to be a trend from now.
But there may be hope for their iPhone 16 series yet. We stumbled onto a juicy report yesterday. It said all iPhone 16 models have the same chipsets with no disparity. Non-Pro and Pro all perform the same. An X poster and a Git developer unearthed a code that spilled the tea.
Nicolás Alvarez analyzed that code and shared what he found on X. It would seem there are five iPhones with the same identifier. Four of which we know are the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. That 5th one is a mystery. Maybe that’s a color-shifted remake.
iPhone17,1 + iPhone17,2 + iPhone17,3 + iPhone17,4 + iPhone17,5. These are the identifiers he found. His break is a solid and believable lead, by the looks of it. Non-Pro iPhone 15s and Pro iPhone 15s last year had some disparity in the identifiers. The former had iPhone 15,4 and iPhone 15,5. But the latter were iPhone 16,1 and iPhone 16,2.
Those digits on the right are hints of the embedded SoCs. Number 17 showed up in all of them. We don’t know if that’s the A18 Pro chip he’s talking about. But at least we know Apple isn’t discriminating between its products anymore.
