Entire iPhone 16 lineup again said to feature A18 chips

All four iPhone 16 models are expected to use the A18 chip, according to code changes discovered by Nicolás Alvarez in Apple's backend code4. This suggests a departure from the recent practice of reserving newer chipsets for Pro models while using last year's system-on-chip for standard iPhones2.

Five new iPhone models have surfaced in Apple's backend code, each powered by the A18 chip. These include identifiers iPhone17,1 through iPhone17,5. This suggests that all four expected iPhone 16 models will use the A18 chip, with the possibility of an additional iPhone SE model.