Everything we know about the Apple iPhone 15—features and design
The iPhone 15 line-up reveal is still a few months away, yet it already feels like speculations are at an all-time high. There are a few persistent theories going around this time, ranging from a completely new design to some contentious new charging port technology.
Keep this page bookmarked since we’ve compiled all the important rumours and leaks here and will keep adding to it as we discover more. And if you don’t feel like waiting, look at the top iPhone 14 offers now on the market.
We’re a long way off from the likely release of an iPhone 15, but we’re already certain it will feature one big design change: a move from Lightning to USB-C. That’s because new EU rules announced last autumn will require all phones sold after autumn 2024 to use the USB-C connector for charging.
Apple has agreed to comply, and although technically they could still sneak out a new phone with a Lightning connector between now and the deadline, it wouldn’t make much business sense to do so. And with the iPad, MacBook and most third-party accessories shifting to USB-C, it makes sense from a brand viewpoint anyway.
Every iPhone 15 model, then, is likely to ditch Lightning for USB-C… but that’s not the whole story. As we reported in November, leaks suggest that the capabilities of the ports won’t be the same across all four iPhones. It appears that only the iPhone 15 Pro models will support USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3, while the standard iPhone 15 will just support USB 2.0, offering no speed improvement over Lightning. Bah. And the whole thing is already proving controversial.
We don’t know anything official about the iPhone 15’s cameras yet, and we haven’t even seen many leaks either. The biggest rumour is the prediction that the iPhone 15 Ultra will have a second selfie camera (while the iPhone 14 Pro has three main cameras on the back, the front camera remains a single lens.)
We haven’t heard anything about pricing or a release date for the iPhone 15 range yet. In terms of the latter, though, past practice can point us to a likely release window.
Apple tends to launch new iPhones in the first couple of weeks of September: for example, it launched the iPhone 14 on 7 September 2021, with the 14, Plus and Pro going on sale over a week later (16 September) and the iPhone 14 Plus a little after that (7 October). The company also usually launches new stuff on a Tuesday. Taking all that into account, Tuesday 5 September or Tuesday 12 September 2023 is our educated guess for an iPhone 15 launch. If that’s too far away for you, take a look at today’s best iPhone 14 Pro deals below.