iPhone 16 Pro (2024) + 3 new LEAKS, new CAMERA, Touch ID, and more!

### Article Based on Video Transcription: iPhone 16 Rumors - The Latest Updates You Need to Know

#### Introduction

Another day, another iPhone 16 rumor, and this one is spicy. Get your lotion and candles ready—though I’m not entirely sure why those two things came to mind. Anyway, let’s dive into the latest news about Apple’s upcoming iPhone lineup.

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#### New Telephoto Zoom Lens on Both iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max

In a recent report from the Korean news outlet **the elect**, which has a pretty solid track record, we’ve learned that both the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will be getting the fancy new telephoto zoom lens. This upgrade is set to make zoom photography even more impressive than before.

The new lens, which was introduced with the Pro Max this year, is now trickling down to the regular Pro model—good news for those of us who don’t have hands as large as Tim Cook’s (though I’m not sure about that). The Alex Report goes into detail about how Apple is bringing in LG to manufacture these lenses. While Tim Cook probably has better things to do than manage lens production, this bit of technical jargon isn’t what we’re focusing on here.

The real question is: How nice and lovely is this development? Well, let’s talk about it.

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#### Why iPhone 15 Pro Didn’t Get the New Zoom Lens

If you were bummed that the iPhone 15 Pro didn’t get the new five times zoom lens, rest assured—it makes sense. Tim Hardwick over at Mac Rumors has his take on why it makes sense for the iPhone 16 Pro to get this upgrade instead. He points out that since the 16 Pro and Pro Max are expected to have larger displays (6.3 inches for the Pro and 6.9 inches for the Pro Max), there’s more room in the phone body to accommodate a bigger zoom lens.

At first glance, Tim’s reasoning seems solid, and other news sites agree with him. But here’s where things get interesting—because I *disagree*. Let me lay it out for you.

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#### Why It’s Not All About Size

Going back to the Alex Report, they mention that LG’s production volume is ramping up significantly. This leads me to believe that the main reason Apple is bringing this new five times zoom lens to the iPhone 16 Pro is scale-related, not size-related.

Let me be honest: It doesn’t feel like a size issue at all. The excuse that the Pro Max got the lens because it’s the bigger phone with more room for the zoom lens? I don’t buy it. If Apple had truly believed this was a size issue, they wouldn’t have waited to bring the upgrade to the regular Pro model.

Here’s my take: It wasn’t about size at all. It was—and still is—a scale issue. Apple has always been a victim of its own success when it comes to producing cutting-edge features quickly. They’re slower than competitors like Samsung because they have to produce and sell *a lot* of phones, and sometimes that means delaying features until production can catch up.

So, for example, the five times zoom lens was only available on the Pro Max last year because Apple couldn’t produce enough lenses fast enough for both models. It’s a matter of supply and demand—and scale.

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#### The Real Question: Will iPhone 16 Pro Keep the Same Price?

Now that we know the regular Pro is getting this fancy new lens, will Apple keep the price point the same when moving from the iPhone 15 Pro to the 16 Pro? That’s the real question. While the 16 Pro might be getting the telephoto zoom lens, it won’t be getting Touch ID—something we’ll talk about next.

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#### Touch ID Is Officially Dead (For iPhone 16)

Alright, back to the main event: Apple’s latest rumors. If you thought we were done talking about Touch ID, think again. According to a report from this *webo* account (which my browser translated into something I could barely understand), Touch ID is officially not coming back for the iPhone 16.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this kind of rumor—it’s been floating around for years—but this seems like confirmation that it’s truly dead. The report claims that most of the equipment used to manufacture the necessary chips for Touch ID has been shut down and presumably launched into the sun (I made up that last part, but hey, you can’t blame me for trying to add some flair).

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#### Why Apple Won’t Bring Back Touch ID

Now, let’s talk about why Apple is pulling the plug on Touch ID. When they introduced Face ID with the iPhone 10 in 2017, they were all in—claiming it was more secure and better than Touch ID in every way. And honestly, they weren’t wrong. For Apple to bring back Touch ID now would require them to backtrack on all those claims about how superior Face ID is.

It’s not happening. That ship has sailed—and it ain’t coming back. Instead, we’re getting the *action button*, which brings us to our next topic.

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#### The Action Button Is Coming to iPhone 16

If you’ve been following along with our rumors, you know we’ve talked about the action button before. But this time, Mac Rumors has some serious confidence in its claims thanks to “extensive evidence” from Marco over at *their* lovely write-up.

So, what’s new? Well, besides bringing the action button to the full iPhone 16 lineup, Apple is making a couple of changes:

1. The action button is becoming a **capacitive button** instead of a mechanical one.

2. They’re planning to expand its functionality by leveraging the pressure sensitivity of these new capacitive buttons.

While we don’t know exactly how Apple intends to use this feature, it’s probably something along the lines of pressing lightly for silent mode and pressing harder to launch TikTok (or some other app). Who knows? The possibilities are endless—though I suspect it’ll be more useful than that.

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#### Is This the Death of Real Buttons?

The action button brings us full circle. It feels almost like when 3D Touch was introduced back in 2015—a feature Apple claimed was revolutionary but ended up being one of their most useless innovations. I miss it every day.

But here we are again, bringing something similar back—this time as an action nipple button on a thousand smartphones. While it might not be the same as 3D Touch, it’s clear that Apple is obsessed with making buttons that do more than just press.

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#### Conclusion

So there you have it—the latest rumors about the iPhone 16 lineup. Whether you’re excited about the new telephoto zoom lens, mourning the death of real buttons, or just trying to figure out why Apple can’t bring back Touch ID (spoiler: they won’t), one thing is for sure: the iPhone 16 is shaping up to be a big year for Apple.

As always, stay tuned for more updates—and don’t forget to stock up on bath bombs and candles. You never know when Apple will drop another spicy rumor!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enah another day another iPhone 16 rumor and this one is spicy so get your lotion and your candles ready don't know why I picked those two things in particular all right in a report from the Korean news Outlet the elect who has a pretty good track record we have word that both iPhone 16 pro and pro Max devices will be getting the fancy schmancy new tele prism zoom lens which will make zoomy photos even Zoomer yeah the new lens that came out with the pro Max this year is is now going to be trickling down to the regular Pro siiz phone for people that have normalized human hands the Alex report goes into detail about how apple is bringing in LG to manufacture these lenses so Tim Cook can get back to playing quiddit or whatever he does in his free time but you know that's all a bunch of technical jargon not what we do here on the show so let's talk about how actually nice and lovely this development is iPhone 15 Pro not getting the new five times zoom lens was definitely a bummer but it makes sense let's talk about for why Tim Hardwick over at Mac Rumors gives his take on why it makes sense for iPhone 16 Pro to get the upgraded zoomi lens and other new sites seem to feel the same that since the 16 pro and pro Max are expected to get a display size increase to 6.3 in and 6.9 in respectively that makes more room in the phone body to smoosh a bigger zoom lens in there and though Tim's reasoning at first glance does make sense and makes enough sense for other news sites to agree to him in typical me Jour fashion I disagree all right boys and girls class is in session have a seat crisscross applesauce like okay follow my logic here if we go back to the Alex report they talk a lot about how LG's production volume is going way up and I think that is the main reason apple is being able to pull the trigger on 16 Pro getting the five times lens and not just Pro Max to me if I'm being honest with you it doesn't really seem it doesn't really feel like a size issue like we can go ahead and make the excuse oh it only came on the 15 Pro Max and not the pro because the pro Max is the bigger phone more room into phone for Zumi lens I don't think that's the case at all I don't think this was ever a size issue and the fact that it's coming on the 16 Pro regular size next year is telling my real reason for this the reason I think it came on Pro Max first and not on both of these models is actually a scale issue a lot of the reason Apple produces or brings featur is a little bit later than other counterparts like Android manufacturers and whatnot a lot of people complain about how late they are to the game but in reality a lot of the reasoning for why they are a bit slower is because they have to produce more phones at scale and just as apple is a victim of their own success when it comes to not being able to get competitive features out faster than say Samsung or somebody else I think the same can be said about their own feature here this five time zoom on the pro Max I think they had to opt to use this on just one model this last year because they couldn't produce enough of them at scale fast enough for both models not only do these other manufacturers have to produce at scale but they also have to match what Apple wants these things to cost and sometimes those two things just don't line up with that in mind yeah unfortunately it does make sense as to why this the normal people with normal hands model did not get the tele prism lens whereas the pro Max did so for those of you that usually get the pro model but you got the pro Max this year just because of that new lens you're suffering through the size of that phone for that new lens maybe you should have waited till next year now the real question is do we think apple is going to keep the price point the same going from 15 Pro to 16 Pro next year 16 Pro might be getting that tele prism lens but you know what it's not getting Touch ID we'll talk about that after today's sponsor ah you know what I left off my holiday wish list this year bath bombs my baths just aren't the same without them you might not know this but this is a stamps.com ad you should not leave them out of your holiday wish list stamps.com has been helping businesses like yours and Lake mine save time and money for 25 years no more trips to the post office no more spending all the money after waiting in long lines well stamps.com all you need is a computer and a printer no extra supplies or equipment are needed but here's the best part cuz they really buried the lead here stamps.com will give you carrier discounts up to 84% off that is insane that's so close to 100% off dude check out the link below or go to stamps.com slfp for an entire 4-we free trial plus free postage and a free digital scale with no long-term commitments or contracts and of course a huge thanks to stamps.com for sponsoring this episode of Pap welcome back I will now give you a piece of news that no one asked for and no one wanted so our favorite kind drum roll please touch ID will not be coming back to iPhone for iPhone 16 Yep this is my shocked face can you see how shocked I am okay for real though this is basically just one of those we didn't think so but this pretty much confirms it situations the info comes to us from a report from this webo account that my web browser translated into a whole mess of words that I can make out to say it no come back no now this is not the first thing that this waybo account has shared uh it has shared other stuff before to a mixed level of accuracy but hey we are we're having fun here any that account basically says that most pieces of equipment used to manufacture touch IDs necessary chips for iPhone have been shut down and uh launched into the sun yeah nope that last part I made that up you know in a way this waybo accounts report also lends us that just extra bit of credibility to the reports of the iPhone se4 making the jump to face ID getting rid of the home button in turn getting rid of touch idea but getting back to the iPhone 16 because that's what this episode is about it seems that every year we have sort of Rumblings reports going around that this year's the year for sure Touch ID is coming back the claim is that touch ID is going to be placed underneath the display so every year we kind of think that is a possibility of happening and then every year they go actually it's not happening this year no touch ID this year I I just have a question why the hell would you ever think Touch ID is coming back to iPhone it's not here's my reasoning for that when Apple announced face ID all the way back in 2017 for iPhone 10 they were full send dude completely on the train of face ID being more secure and better in every way that was what they were claiming and eventually yeah it really is better than Touch ID in basically every way so for them to bring Touch ID back to the iPhone would have to require them backtracking on all of that on how great and secure and more secure face ID is over Touch ID it ain't happening that ship has sailed honey then it ain't coming back but something that absolutely is making its way to iPhone 16 next year the action button we talked about the action button coming to the full iPhone 16 lineup a few times now most notably in our list about the best things to be excited about for iPhone 16 and now Mac Rumors has some serious confidence thanks to seeing what they say or what they call is extensive evidence in a lovely write up by Marco we get some zesty new information about the action button on iPhone 16 and some changes coming to the newest kit on the block of buttons the button block apparently other than just the action button coming down to the Basse models for iPhone 16 they're also making changes to the action button even though it even though it just became a thing for one apple is making the move to a capacitive button instead of mechanical this would fall in line with the inevitable debut of fake buttons all over the iPhone completely remov moving real buttons once and for all and secondly apple is planning expanding the functionality of the action button on iPhone 16 by taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of their capacitive buttons though we don't know exactly how Apple intends on using that functionality it's probably going to be something like press little bit for toggling silent or ringer mode and press lot of bit to launch Tik Tok or something like that who knows I don't so it seems to me that Apple's latest obsession is putting the action button on every iPhone can hold it because the se4 is also supposed to be getting the action button does this spell out the total death of real buttons maybe but I do know what it really feels like listen guys this is feeling really familiar almost like when we had 3D mothering touch 3D touch was the coolest and according to Apple most useless feature iPhone has ever had and I miss it every day how cool was it that you could press into your phone and make it do stuff this is the perfect time to bring something like that back after all you can't really know if you love something until it's gone and then it comes back as some weird action nipple button thing on a thousand smartphone or somethingah another day another iPhone 16 rumor and this one is spicy so get your lotion and your candles ready don't know why I picked those two things in particular all right in a report from the Korean news Outlet the elect who has a pretty good track record we have word that both iPhone 16 pro and pro Max devices will be getting the fancy schmancy new tele prism zoom lens which will make zoomy photos even Zoomer yeah the new lens that came out with the pro Max this year is is now going to be trickling down to the regular Pro siiz phone for people that have normalized human hands the Alex report goes into detail about how apple is bringing in LG to manufacture these lenses so Tim Cook can get back to playing quiddit or whatever he does in his free time but you know that's all a bunch of technical jargon not what we do here on the show so let's talk about how actually nice and lovely this development is iPhone 15 Pro not getting the new five times zoom lens was definitely a bummer but it makes sense let's talk about for why Tim Hardwick over at Mac Rumors gives his take on why it makes sense for iPhone 16 Pro to get the upgraded zoomi lens and other new sites seem to feel the same that since the 16 pro and pro Max are expected to get a display size increase to 6.3 in and 6.9 in respectively that makes more room in the phone body to smoosh a bigger zoom lens in there and though Tim's reasoning at first glance does make sense and makes enough sense for other news sites to agree to him in typical me Jour fashion I disagree all right boys and girls class is in session have a seat crisscross applesauce like okay follow my logic here if we go back to the Alex report they talk a lot about how LG's production volume is going way up and I think that is the main reason apple is being able to pull the trigger on 16 Pro getting the five times lens and not just Pro Max to me if I'm being honest with you it doesn't really seem it doesn't really feel like a size issue like we can go ahead and make the excuse oh it only came on the 15 Pro Max and not the pro because the pro Max is the bigger phone more room into phone for Zumi lens I don't think that's the case at all I don't think this was ever a size issue and the fact that it's coming on the 16 Pro regular size next year is telling my real reason for this the reason I think it came on Pro Max first and not on both of these models is actually a scale issue a lot of the reason Apple produces or brings featur is a little bit later than other counterparts like Android manufacturers and whatnot a lot of people complain about how late they are to the game but in reality a lot of the reasoning for why they are a bit slower is because they have to produce more phones at scale and just as apple is a victim of their own success when it comes to not being able to get competitive features out faster than say Samsung or somebody else I think the same can be said about their own feature here this five time zoom on the pro Max I think they had to opt to use this on just one model this last year because they couldn't produce enough of them at scale fast enough for both models not only do these other manufacturers have to produce at scale but they also have to match what Apple wants these things to cost and sometimes those two things just don't line up with that in mind yeah unfortunately it does make sense as to why this the normal people with normal hands model did not get the tele prism lens whereas the pro Max did so for those of you that usually get the pro model but you got the pro Max this year just because of that new lens you're suffering through the size of that phone for that new lens maybe you should have waited till next year now the real question is do we think apple is going to keep the price point the same going from 15 Pro to 16 Pro next year 16 Pro might be getting that tele prism lens but you know what it's not getting Touch ID we'll talk about that after today's sponsor ah you know what I left off my holiday wish list this year bath bombs my baths just aren't the same without them you might not know this but this is a stamps.com ad you should not leave them out of your holiday wish list stamps.com has been helping businesses like yours and Lake mine save time and money for 25 years no more trips to the post office no more spending all the money after waiting in long lines well stamps.com all you need is a computer and a printer no extra supplies or equipment are needed but here's the best part cuz they really buried the lead here stamps.com will give you carrier discounts up to 84% off that is insane that's so close to 100% off dude check out the link below or go to stamps.com slfp for an entire 4-we free trial plus free postage and a free digital scale with no long-term commitments or contracts and of course a huge thanks to stamps.com for sponsoring this episode of Pap welcome back I will now give you a piece of news that no one asked for and no one wanted so our favorite kind drum roll please touch ID will not be coming back to iPhone for iPhone 16 Yep this is my shocked face can you see how shocked I am okay for real though this is basically just one of those we didn't think so but this pretty much confirms it situations the info comes to us from a report from this webo account that my web browser translated into a whole mess of words that I can make out to say it no come back no now this is not the first thing that this waybo account has shared uh it has shared other stuff before to a mixed level of accuracy but hey we are we're having fun here any that account basically says that most pieces of equipment used to manufacture touch IDs necessary chips for iPhone have been shut down and uh launched into the sun yeah nope that last part I made that up you know in a way this waybo accounts report also lends us that just extra bit of credibility to the reports of the iPhone se4 making the jump to face ID getting rid of the home button in turn getting rid of touch idea but getting back to the iPhone 16 because that's what this episode is about it seems that every year we have sort of Rumblings reports going around that this year's the year for sure Touch ID is coming back the claim is that touch ID is going to be placed underneath the display so every year we kind of think that is a possibility of happening and then every year they go actually it's not happening this year no touch ID this year I I just have a question why the hell would you ever think Touch ID is coming back to iPhone it's not here's my reasoning for that when Apple announced face ID all the way back in 2017 for iPhone 10 they were full send dude completely on the train of face ID being more secure and better in every way that was what they were claiming and eventually yeah it really is better than Touch ID in basically every way so for them to bring Touch ID back to the iPhone would have to require them backtracking on all of that on how great and secure and more secure face ID is over Touch ID it ain't happening that ship has sailed honey then it ain't coming back but something that absolutely is making its way to iPhone 16 next year the action button we talked about the action button coming to the full iPhone 16 lineup a few times now most notably in our list about the best things to be excited about for iPhone 16 and now Mac Rumors has some serious confidence thanks to seeing what they say or what they call is extensive evidence in a lovely write up by Marco we get some zesty new information about the action button on iPhone 16 and some changes coming to the newest kit on the block of buttons the button block apparently other than just the action button coming down to the Basse models for iPhone 16 they're also making changes to the action button even though it even though it just became a thing for one apple is making the move to a capacitive button instead of mechanical this would fall in line with the inevitable debut of fake buttons all over the iPhone completely remov moving real buttons once and for all and secondly apple is planning expanding the functionality of the action button on iPhone 16 by taking advantage of the pressure sensitivity of their capacitive buttons though we don't know exactly how Apple intends on using that functionality it's probably going to be something like press little bit for toggling silent or ringer mode and press lot of bit to launch Tik Tok or something like that who knows I don't so it seems to me that Apple's latest obsession is putting the action button on every iPhone can hold it because the se4 is also supposed to be getting the action button does this spell out the total death of real buttons maybe but I do know what it really feels like listen guys this is feeling really familiar almost like when we had 3D mothering touch 3D touch was the coolest and according to Apple most useless feature iPhone has ever had and I miss it every day how cool was it that you could press into your phone and make it do stuff this is the perfect time to bring something like that back after all you can't really know if you love something until it's gone and then it comes back as some weird action nipple button thing on a thousand smartphone or something\n"