Apple iPhone SE 4 leaks: March 2025 release, iPhone 16 chip, larger screen, and higher price

Rumor mill: Apple's adjacent iPhone, nan iPhone SE 4, is group to motorboat successful nan first half of adjacent year. We antecedently heard that nan handset will person a slew of features that person trickled down from Cupertino's newer phones, including Apple Intelligence support and Face ID. Now, caller leaks person revealed much specifications astir nan fourth-generation iPhone SE.

The latest info connected nan iPhone SE 4 comes from renowned Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo. He writes successful a Medium station that wide accumulation of nan company's cheapest handset will statesman this December, pinch projected accumulation numbers of astir 8.6 cardinal units from December 2024 to nan first 4th of 2025. It's seems likey that nan telephone will motorboat successful either March aliases April, which lines up pinch reports from past July.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg's Apple master Mark Gurman wrote that nan updated iPhone SE, codenamed V59, will beryllium nan company's caller entry-level model, but it will characteristic a number of upgrades complete nan past update: nan 2022 iPhone SE (third generation), which offered 5G connectivity arsenic nan astir notable betterment complete nan 2nd-gen handset.

Probably nan biggest upgrade successful nan iPhone SE 4 will beryllium nan removal of nan location button, meaning nan handset will subordinate nan different Apple devices that usage Face ID. It's said to intimately lucifer nan iPhone 14, including nan notch cutout, and usage an OLED alternatively of LCD display.

Gurman besides said that nan iPhone SE 4 will apt beryllium powered by nan aforesaid A18 spot recovered successful nan iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, thereby enabling support for Apple Intelligence.

Now, tipster @Jukanlosreve has posted what's claimed to beryllium nan iPhone SE 4's spec expanse connected X. The database backs up Gurman's declare that nan handset will usage nan A18 SoC and Face ID, adding that nan telephone will characteristic 8GB of LPDDR5X memory, 128GB of storage, a 12MP selfie cam, and a azygous 48MP camera that uses a Sony IMX904 sensor.

According to nan alleged specs, nan iPhone SE 4 will besides battalion Wi-Fi 6, a USB-C port, Bluetooth 5.3, and person a 6.06-inch surface pinch a 2532 x 1170 resolution. That's a ample summation successful surface size complete nan 4.7-inch iPhone SE from 2022, though it does statement up pinch nan rumor that Apple is taking creation cues from nan iPhone 14 for nan adjacent SE model.

Other specs see IP68-rated h2o and particulate protection and a 3,279mAh battery, a large jump complete nan 3rd-gen iPhone SE's 2,018mAh.

As for nan price, Jukanlosreve's station has nan iPhone SE 4 trading for $499 aliases $549 successful March 2025. A hefty hike complete its predecessor's $429 motorboat MSRP, but Apple will astir apt warrant this by pointing astatine its precocious features.