Apple promised me a new iPhone, but all I got was last year’s iPhone… for now

It's a good phone, but it's hard to call it a new phone.

Apple promised me a new iPhone, but all I got was last year’s iPhone… for now
Opinion post by
Ryan Haines

Someone smarter than me once wrote that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m sure it was conceived with a much deeper context in mind, but it’s become surprisingly applicable to Apple’s annual iPhone launch.

See, I know that the latest iPhone is called the iPhone 16, and it comes with the future promise of Apple Intelligence features, but what’s in a name when those shiny new features haven’t arrived yet? I was promised a new iPhone, but right now, the iPhone 16 mostly feels like the iPhone 15 with its cameras twisted in a new direction.