New iPhone 16 Pro leak shows how the new gold titanium color might look
Counting down to the launch
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There’s just a week and a bit to go untilAppleunveils theiPhone 16series, and a newly leaked image gives us an idea of the gold titanium color that’s rumored to be coming to the Pro and Pro Max models this year.
The image was shared by9to5Macand created by an inside source who has been accurate with information in the past. The picture shows the back of aniPhone 16 Proin a case, and we can also see a cut out for thenew Capture buttonwe’re expecting to see.
Several previous rumorshave hintedat this new color, though there’s been some debate about exactly what shade of gold it’s going to be, and the official name Apple is going to use for it: gold? Brown? Bronze? Desert?
It will be a single word followed by Titanium to match the other colors, and here 9to5Mac goes with gold. It’s set to replace the Blue Titanium option we saw with the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, which launched in 2023.
Going for gold… again
If this gold shade does show up on the iPhone 16 Pro andiPhone 16 Pro Max, then it would actually be an old color returning – gold has been available each year on at least some iPhone models since theiPhone XSin 2018, with the exception of the iPhone 15 series.
So the four colorswe’re expectingfor the Pro and Pro Max in 2024 are these: Natural (or Gray) Titanium, White Titanium, Black Titanium, and Desert Titanium (remember titanium wasintroduced as a materialon the Pro-level iPhones last year).
However, nothing is certain until Apple CEOTim Cookis telling us what the colors are in another polished video presentation – we’ve also heard rumorsof a rose color, as well asplenty of leaksaround the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus shades.
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All will be revealed on Monday, September 9, and of course we’ll be covering the whole event live – you can alsowatch along online. As well as the iPhone 16 models, we should also see theApple Watch 10, theApple Watch Ultra 3, and theAirPods 4.
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