Apple final up to date its entry-level iPhone in March 2022, including a number of nips and tucks right here and there together with a quiet worth enhance. It stored the “iPhone 8” design with its Residence button and small kind issue that appeals to some, however the getting older design and minimal upgrades meant the brand new iPhone SE was coolly acquired by the plenty.
The iPhone SE is in determined want of an enormous improve, and in case you are questioning whether or not there be a brand new iPhone SE, it appears to be like like a brand new mannequin—possibly with a model new identify—might arrive very quickly.
Tim Cook dinner has teased that “the most recent member of the household” is approaching Wednesday, February 19. That is extensively anticipated to be a alternative for the iPhone SE. Right here’s what to anticipate from an enormous resign to AI succesful specs and worth hikes.
New iPhone SE launch date: When is the brand new iPhone SE popping out?
- An X publish from Apple’s CEO Tim Cook dinner hints that the iPhone SE 4 will launch on February 19.
- In any other case, a launch at a Spring Apple Occasion is anticipated.
Apple’s Tim Cook dinner has ‘tweeted‘ on X: “Prepare to satisfy the most recent member of the household” on February 19. Which means a launch of one thing is imminent, which is probably going the iPhone SE.
Days earlier, rumor-monger extraordinaire, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who initially mentioned the iPhone SE 4 would launch within the week of February 10, claimed we are able to anticipate the brand new iPhone SE to launch within the week of February 17, 2025. Gurman is saying that the iPhone SE shall be included in product briefings being organized by Apple that week.
If an iPhone SE isn’t the thriller new member of the family approaching February 19, an replace is anticipated quickly, and there’s priority for Apple to launch the iPhone SE in March or April.
Apple’s iPhone SE doesn’t observe the identical predictable annual launch schedule as the usual iPhone line, and it doesn’t are inclined to have its launch social gathering in September like that handset. There are typically for much longer intervals between updates too. However one factor appears certain: The iPhone SE tends to be up to date in March or April. Right here’s when the three fashions launched thus far made their debut:
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What’s going to the brand new iPhone SE be known as? SE 4 or iPhone 16E?
Whereas we assumed Apple would proceed the iPhone SE for one more technology, a rumor in January 2025 claims that Apple will introduce a brand new identify: iPhone 16E. That identify would align it with the present technology and in addition might point out an annual improve cycle. It could additionally imply that the iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 are faraway from the lineup, or that the worth of the iPhone 16E is greater than the iPhone 15.
New iPhone SE worth: How a lot will the iPhone SE 4 value?
- iPhone SE at present from: $429/£429. New worth may very well be $499 or extra.
Whereas the iPhone SE is Apple’s least expensive iPhone, it’s doable we might see pricing enhance with the arrival of the brand new mannequin.
Larger part pricing and the impact of upper import duties is prone to result in greater costs for customers wishing to buy the brand new iPhone SE. Moreover, the 2025 iPhone SE might also not be positioned because the ‘price range’ possibility, relying on how Apple locations it within the line up associated to the iPhone 15.
Some rumors declare the 4th-gen iPhone SE might begin at $499, which whereas greater than the present worth, would nonetheless be inexpensive than another new iPhone Apple sells.
Nevertheless, Apple tends to have a $100 leap between handsets, with the iPhone 16 beginning at $799 and the iPhone 15 at $699. If the iPhone SE replaces the iPhone 14 within the lineup, it might imply a $599 beginning worth. That’s assuming that the brand new iPhone SE doesn’t change the iPhone 15 at a $699 beginning worth.
Hopefully, Apple gained’t push up the worth that a lot. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims the subsequent mannequin is meant to assist Apple compete with low-end Android telephones in China, so a low worth can be crucial to attain this plan.
Will Apple alter pricing as a consequence of alternate charges?
When the iPhone SE (third technology) was launched in 2022, Apple added a piece onto the associated fee, making the present mannequin considerably much less fascinating than earlier iterations, particularly whenever you issue within the measly quantity of storage that comes with the baseline mannequin.
At the moment costs have been even greater within the U.Ok. however, in September 2023, after adjusting for inflation, Apple dropped the U.Ok. worth again to match the U.S. worth. Apple did the identical factor for costs in euros in September 2024.
The corporate could also be about to undo this optimistic worth change. It appears seemingly that even when costs don’t probability within the U.S. worth hikes will occur within the U.Ok. The pound has fallen in opposition to the greenback in latest months, and it’s due to this fact seemingly that we are going to see some pricing changes correlating with Apple’s worth hikes within the U.Ok. in January 2017. So the present like-for-like pricing is unlikely to proceed.
How a lot did earlier generations of iPhone SE value?
| 32GB | 64GB | 128GB | 256GB | |
| iPhone SE (third gen, 2022) | $429/£429 (was £449 at launch) | $479/£479 (was £499 at launch) | $579/£579 (was £609 at launch) | |
| iPhone SE (2nd gen, 2020) | $399/£419 | $449/£469 | $549/£569 | |
| iPhone SE (1st gen, 2016) | $399/£379 | $499/£449 |
New iPhone SE design: What’s going to the brand new iPhone SE appear to be?
Will the iPhone SE get a long-overdue design revamp? Rumors recommend that we might see a transfer away from the iPhone 8 chassis to one thing extra like trendy iPhones, with Face ID and a full-screen show.
That may very well be good or unhealthy information, relying in your viewpoint. Some individuals want the Residence button as a way to work together with their iPhone, for some older individuals and people who are much less dexterous it’s useful to have a bodily button.
Rumors have lengthy claimed the iPhone SE 4 shall be primarily based on the iPhone 14, the final iPhone to have a notch. Nevertheless, there are strategies that the brand new iPhone SE might take it’s design lead from the iPhone 15 and have a Dynamic Island.
Contact ID or Face ID?
It appears to be like very seemingly that the brand new iPhone SE will use Face ID. Which means Contact ID, which has been a staple of the SE line since its debut, will go away.
A notch or not?
No Residence button is prone to imply a notch (the place the Face ID sensors reside), nevertheless it might additionally imply a Dynamic Island.
A report on January 21, 2025, by leaker Evan Blass states that the brand new iPhone SE may have a Dynamic Island and never a notch. Apple first launched the notch with the iPhone 14 Professional adopted by the iPhone 15 a 12 months later.
However, a later X publish on January 29, 2025, this time from Ross Younger, a shows analyst, said “Notch like iPhone 14 is appropriate.” Younger has a really sturdy observe file for show rumors as he depends on provide chain reviews reasonably than leaks. Learn: The brand new iPhone SE may have a notch in any case.
A rumor again in July 2024 steered Apple would change course with the iPhone SE 4 and as an alternative use the identical physique because the iPhone 16, making it a real price range model of the most recent iPhone lineup.
New iPhone SE digital camera: One in every of two?
One of many defining options of the iPhone SE is a single digital camera on the again. That is most likely not going to alter, though if the brand new iPhone SE does undertake the chassis of an iPhone 14 or 16 it’s doable. Rumors recommend a single 48MP digital camera, which might not less than give the iPhone SE 4 a great 2x “optical zoom” mode utilizing the middle 12MP of the sensor, because the iPhone 16 does.
If Apple chooses to make use of the chassis of the iPhone 16 reasonably than the iPhone 14 that would permit the most effective alignment of two digital camera lenses for speaking movies for the Imaginative and prescient Professional. However that may imply that the iPhone SE would have two cameras on the again, reasonably than only one, because it does at present. It might additionally make it laborious to distinguish between fashions, pushing some customers who would possibly in any other case contemplate the iPhone 16 to purchase the iPhone SE 4 at a cheaper price.
We bought our first take a look at a “dummy mannequin” for the brand new iPhone SE in January from leaker Sonny Dickson, and it positively appears to be like like an iPhone 14 with a single rear digital camera.
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iPhone SE 4 specs: Will Apple Intelligence be supported?
The iPhones launched in 2024 have been all about Apple Intelligence AI options, which first arrived with iOS 18.1 and can proceed to get new options in iOS 18 updates. It’s due to this fact seemingly that when the brand new iPhone SE (or iPhone 16E) launches, it’ll assist Apple Intelligence.
The truth is, one of many greatest new options, an enormous enlargement of Siri capabilities, is due for launch in iOS 18.4 across the similar time the iPhone SE 4 is anticipated to be launched.
Processor & RAM
To run Apple Intelligence an iPhone requires an A17 Professional or A18 chip and 8GB of RAM. There’s some expectation that the iPhone SE 4 might meet these necessities. It’s common for the iPhone SE to have the identical processor as the most recent non-Professional iPhone however skimp on different options to distinguish itself, so we anticipate the iPhone SE 4 to have the A18 processor.
5G modem
The iPhone SE 4 could be the primary iPhone to characteristic Apple’s personal 5G modems (codenamed Sinope). It would supply sub-6 assist however no mmWave, and decrease efficiency than Qualcomm’s finest 5G modems however higher energy effectivity.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Apple can be about to change over to its personal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, codenamed Proxima. The rumors say this chip will really seem first in a refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV, however there’s an opportunity it may very well be used within the iPhone SE 4.
Storage
With the iPhone 13 vary transferring to a baseline of 128GB (and the 14-series handsets following swimsuit), it’s hoped that the brand new iPhone SE would possibly do likewise, as 64GB isn’t sufficient for many customers anymore, particularly since system information take up greater than 10GB (and you’ll add a multi-gigabyte Apple Intelligence mannequin to that).
Nevertheless, there have been reviews that iPhone customers are opting to make use of iCloud, reasonably than spending extra on an iPhone with extra storage. So it could nonetheless be the case that 64GB is satisfactory. And by protecting the 64GB model Apple should still be capable to supply an iPhone SE for $499. See: Research: Fewer iPhone customers are springing for storage upgrades.
There aren’t any good rumors someway concerning the minimal storage for the iPhone SE 4. Nevertheless, since Apple has upped the entry-level storage within the iPad mini from 64GB to 128GB it could observe swimsuit with the iPhone SE 4 (we hope so).
USB-C
We anticipate the iPhone SE 4 to characteristic a USB-C port for charging, as all new iPhones do, and IP68 water resistance. The present SE is likely one of the final remaining Apple gadgets to nonetheless have a Lightning port. Apple has been pressured to cease promoting the iPhone SE and 14 and 14 Plus within the EU due to the usage of the Lightning port, so it will be illogical if it had something apart from USB-C.
Motion Button
An alleged leak of an iPhone SE 4 case exhibits a cutout for the mute change reasonably than an Motion Button, and naturally, there shall be no Digicam Management button—if the iPhone SE 4 had these options there can be little motive for anybody to purchase an iPhone 16!
iPhone historical past
The iPhone 16 vary and the iPhone SE 3 are the current-generation fashions obtainable from Apple. Along with this SE 4 mannequin, we’re additionally anticipating iPhone 17 to launch in 2025. Under you’ll find hyperlinks to our opinions of all iPhone fashions, together with the most recent technology. Study extra about all of the new Apple merchandise coming this 12 months and when is the subsequent Apple occasion. You may additionally need to try our recommendation on when is the most effective time to purchase a brand new iPhone, our iPhone shopping for information, and our comparability of each iPhone that’s that can be purchased right this moment.
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