Frequently collaborating with EverythingApplePro to share leaks on the most-subscribed Apple YouTube channel, Max Weinbach x Pine are making a name for themselves with a myriad of solid intel.
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Rumor list
- Green = True
- Red = False
- Yellow = Pending
2020
October 11
- Smaller notch on iPhone 12 mini, link
- Digital and optical zoom getting significant upgrade, link
- New ultra wide camera getting larger aperture for better low light performance, link
- At least one hour of extra battery life on iPhone 12 Pro models, link
September 26
- 6.7-inch iPhone 12 Pro Max will have most significant upgrades, link
July 25
- End of life for 2019 iPhone series is September 30, link
July 9
- No EarPods in box of iPhone 12, link
- No power brick in box of iPhone 12
- A14 processor will have performance increase comparable to A10 to A11 chip
- Trashy wireless AirPods will replace wired EarPods in the future
June 28
iPhone 12:
- 4K 120/240p video coming, link
- Apple’s marketing for the new phones will be “unusually aggressive”
June 21
- No new hardware at WWDC 2020, link
May 22
- Apple Glass coming in light aluminum finish, link
- No speaker on Apple Glass
May 15
- Standardized Color Picker API coming to iOS 14, link
- Improved annotations coming to Pencil in iOS 14
May 9
- iPhone 12:
120Hz display,link60/120Hz dynamic switching,link
- Navy blue colorway coming
- Same frosted glass as iPhone 11 Pro series
- Flat sides are stronger than recent angled models, link
- Face ID is shrinking, link
- Increase in detection angle
- “Dynamic zoning algorithm” for speed increase
- Cameras:
- Larger pixels, link
- LiDAR sensor, link
- Used for Portrait Mode, link
- Subject detection in low light improving
- EIS in Night Mode improving
- Slow-mo in low light improving, link
- Night Mode improving for longer exposures, link
- Improved white balance, link
- Portrait video mode in development
- Updated Smart HDR:
- Coming to all 4 new models, link
- Better noise reduction in low light
- 3x optical zoom coming to telephoto lens, link
- 25-30x digital zoom in the works
- Ultra-wide lens field of view remaining the same, link
- Microphones getting “more precise” beam forming, link
- Improved Audio Zoom
- AirPods Studio:
Releasing at WWDC,link- $349
April 16
- iPhone 12 (lower-end) new colors, 2 to be chosen:
- Light blue, link
- Light orange
- Updated violet
April 12
- Underwater display coming to Apple Watch in the future, link
- Future Apple Watch versions to help with mental health:
- Detect panic attacks
- Detect when the user is under stress
- Learn about when an user could have an panic attack
- Offer assistance during and, potentially, before a panic attack
- View history of monitored panic attacks and similar
- Manually specify symptoms
March 31
- iMessage will support /me commands, link
March 20
- Sleep mode toggle coming in iOS 14, link
- Night Shift for light bulbs
- Face recognition for HomeKit secure video
March 4
- No March event, link
- Press releases for new products
- iPhone 12:
- AirTags:
- Lost mode
- Ability to scan lost tags to return them to owner
- iOS 14:
- “Mainly a stability update,” link
- “New designs and graphics”
- Updated phone call interface
2019
August 13
- 2019 iPhone 11 models:
- Pro models will have base storage of 128GB, link
- 256GB
- 512 GB
- Subtle, rainbow Apple logo coating coming
- Matte finish
- 6.1-inch model getting better display
- No mute switch
- Improved microphones
- Upgraded Face ID will be as fast as 2nd-generation Touch ID
- Ultra wide-angle camera can’t film video above 4K30p
- “Siri intelligence” coming to Camera app
- Pro models will have base storage of 128GB, link
- Apple working on iPad IP67 water resistance
- 2020 iPhone 12 Pro will have 1TB capacity
June 23
- 2019 iPhones getting some kind of fast charging included, link
June 20
- 2019 iPhones getting “insane speed improvements” to Face ID, link
June 12
- Night mode coming to 2019 iPhone models, link
- Will be enabled automatically
May 25
- iPad getting calculator app in iOS 13, link
- Widget-like functionality enabled in CC
- May not make it to final release
May 22
- 2019 iPhones:
- Speakers getting louder, link
- Ultra-wide lens not getting optical image stabilization
- Notch staying roughly the same size
- Face ID getting wider scanning
- Camera flash getting larger and brighter
- iOS 13:
- Siri getting multi-command support
- Smarter in general
- Siri getting multi-command support
- Apple developing smarter RAM management to “pre-load apps,” link
- iOS 13 dark mode won’t be pure black
May 10
- iPhone XR successor will come in new “light green” colorway, link
- Replacing yellow
May 9
- HomePod coming to more countries over the next year, link
- Austria
- Italy
- Language support will expand
March 16
- iOS 13 dark mode coming in beta 1, link
March 2
- AirPods Pro:
- Wireless charging, link
- 0-100 in 15 minutes for AirPods and charging case
- “Case will be bigger in one direction and heavier”
- Matte finish similar to Apple Pencil
- Wireless charging, link
- 2019 iPhones
- Display that works underwater
- Upgraded Taptic Engine coming to a future product
iOS 13 dark mode coming in iOS 13.1
February 19
- Volume HUD going away in iOS 13, link