The iPhone 16e joins the iPhone 16 lineup, delivering fast performance with the A18 chip, Apple Intelligence, extraordinary battery life, and a 48MP 2-in-1 camera system—all at an incredible value.
Meet the iPhone 16e, the most budget-friendly option in the iPhone 16 lineup.
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16e, an exciting new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that delivers impressive performance at a more accessible price. Powered by the highly efficient A18 chip and Apple’s first in-house cellular modem, the C1, the iPhone 16e ensures smooth operation and exceptional battery life. Designed to support Apple Intelligence, the device enhances user experience with intuitive, privacy-focused AI capabilities. The 48MP Fusion camera captures stunning photos and videos, while the built-in 2x Telephoto lens provides optical-quality zoom, effectively offering two cameras in one. Additionally, Apple’s cutting-edge satellite features—including Emergency SOS, Roadside Assistance, Messages, and Find My via satellite—keep users connected and provide crucial help even when cellular and Wi-Fi networks are unavailable.
The iPhone 16e will be offered in two sleek matte finishes—black and white—complemented by a range of vibrant case options for customization. Pre-orders open on Friday, February 21, with official availability starting on Friday, February 28.
Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing, stated, “The iPhone 16e brings together the features our users love from the iPhone 16 lineup, including exceptional battery life, lightning-fast performance with the latest A18 chip, an innovative 2-in-1 camera system, and Apple Intelligence. We’re thrilled to introduce iPhone 16e as a powerful yet more affordable option, making the iPhone experience accessible to even more people.”
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The iPhone 16e, featuring a popular 6.1-inch display, offers exceptional battery life, powerful performance, a 48MP 2-in-1 camera system, and a stunning, durable design.
The iPhone 16e is built for durability, featuring an IP68 rating for splash, water, and dust resistance. Its Ceramic Shield front cover, made with an advanced formulation, is tougher than any smartphone glass, while the back glass is the strongest ever on an iPhone. The 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display with OLED technology offers an immersive edge-to-edge design, making it perfect for watching HDR videos, gaming, and reading sharp text.
With the longest battery life ever in a 6.1-inch iPhone, the iPhone 16e lasts up to six hours longer than the iPhone 11 and up to 12 hours longer than any iPhone SE model. Face ID, powered by the TrueDepth camera system, allows users to securely unlock their device, authenticate purchases, and sign in to apps effortlessly. The iPhone 16e also supports both wireless charging and USB-C connectivity, offering seamless compatibility with a wide range of accessories.
The iPhone 16e comes equipped with USB-C, allowing users to charge their iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirPods, and other devices with a single convenient cable.
The iPhone 16e is powered by Apple’s latest-generation A18 chip, delivering lightning-fast performance, exceptional power efficiency, and seamless integration with Apple Intelligence. Its 6-core CPU is up to 80% faster than the A13 Bionic, effortlessly handling everything from everyday tasks to advanced AI-driven actions. The 4-core GPU enhances graphics performance, enabling console-quality gaming with support for AAA titles and hardware-accelerated ray tracing for lifelike lighting and reflections. Additionally, the 16-core Neural Engine is optimized for large generative models, running machine learning (ML) tasks up to six times faster than the A13 Bionic.
Building on the power of Apple silicon, the C1 is Apple’s first in-house modem and the most energy-efficient modem ever in an iPhone, providing fast and reliable 5G connectivity. Combined with the all-new internal design and advanced power management of iOS 18, Apple silicon—including the C1—helps deliver exceptional battery life.
Designed for Apple Intelligence, the iPhone 16e unlocks powerful new features that enhance usability and efficiency. The Clean Up tool makes it effortless to remove distracting elements from images, while natural language search in the Photos app allows users to find any photo or video simply by describing it.
The iPhone 16e offers exciting new ways for users to express themselves and enhance their productivity with Apple Intelligence. Image Playground allows for creative visual exploration, while Genmoji lets users craft the perfect emoji. Writing Tools make text more dynamic and engaging.
Siri is now more intuitive than ever, with the ability to follow conversations even if users stumble over their words. Users can also type to Siri for greater convenience, and the assistant can maintain context between requests. With extensive product knowledge, Siri can answer thousands of questions about Apple features and settings, helping users with tasks like taking a screen recording or scheduling a text message.
Users can personalize their conversations by creating unique Genmoji, adding a fun and playful touch to chats with family and friends.
With seamless ChatGPT integration into Writing Tools and Siri, users can tap into ChatGPT’s expertise without switching between apps, making tasks faster and more convenient than ever. Additionally, users can access ChatGPT for free without needing an account, with built-in privacy protections—IP addresses are obscured, and OpenAI does not store requests. Users have full control over when to enable ChatGPT integration and what information is shared, ensuring a secure and personalized experience.
Apple Intelligence represents a major leap forward in AI privacy, ensuring user data remains secure at every stage. Many of its models run entirely on-device, minimizing data exposure. For more complex tasks requiring larger models, Apple’s innovative Private Cloud Compute extends iPhone’s privacy and security into the cloud. With Private Cloud Compute, user data is never stored or shared with Apple—it is used solely to process requests, maintaining the highest level of privacy.
The iPhone 16e introduces the Action button, offering quick and customizable access to essential functions with a single press. Users can personalize it in Settings to instantly open the camera or flashlight, toggle between Ring and Silent modes, recognize music with Shazam, activate Voice Memos, Focus, Translate, and accessibility tools like Magnifier. It also supports Shortcuts for even more flexibility. Additionally, the Action button enables in-app functionality, such as launching the camera in Snapchat, unlocking a car with FordPass, tracking a child’s sleep schedule with Napper, and more.
The Action button on iPhone 16e enhances the Apple Intelligence experience by unlocking powerful visual intelligence capabilities. Users can learn more about objects and places, summarize and copy text, translate between languages, detect phone numbers or email addresses for easy contact saving, and even identify animals and plants. Additionally, visual intelligence allows users to search Google to find where to buy an item or leverage ChatGPT’s problem-solving abilities. Users have full control over when third-party tools are accessed and what information is shared, ensuring a secure and personalized experience.
With the Action button on the iPhone 16e, users can utilize visual intelligence to identify and learn about objects and locations around them.
A Powerful Camera System to Capture Any Moment
The iPhone 16e’s powerful 2-in-1 camera system is designed to capture everything from everyday moments to treasured memories, whether in Night mode or Portrait mode. Leveraging advanced computational photography, its 48MP Fusion camera delivers ultra-high-resolution images with perfectly balanced light and detail. The integrated 2x Telephoto lens effectively offers two cameras in one, enabling optical-quality zoom to get closer to your subject and frame shots effortlessly. Additionally, the front-facing TrueDepth camera with autofocus produces sharper close-ups and stunning group selfies. Enhanced HDR technology ensures that both subjects and backgrounds are rendered with lifelike skin tones, bright highlights, rich mid-tones, and deep shadows.
With its integrated 2x Telephoto lens, the 48MP Fusion camera offers the functionality of two cameras in one, allowing users to zoom in while maintaining stunning optical quality.
iPhone 16e captures stunning videos in 4K with Dolby Vision at up to 60 fps, allowing users to stop and restart recordings for greater flexibility. It also records video in Spatial Audio, delivering an immersive listening experience with AirPods, Apple Vision Pro, or a surround sound system. With Audio Mix, users can refine their video’s sound by enhancing voices, simulating studio-quality audio, or positioning vocal tracks at the forefront while ambient sounds surround the listener. Advanced wind noise reduction, powered by machine learning, automatically minimizes unwanted background noise for clearer audio quality.
iPhone 16e keeps users connected and provides critical assistance when it matters most. With Apple’s satellite features, users can send texts via satellite when outside cellular and Wi-Fi coverage, including Messages via satellite for staying in touch with loved ones, Emergency SOS via satellite for reaching emergency services, and Roadside Assistance via satellite for help with car troubles. The Find My app also allows users to share their location via satellite, offering peace of mind while traveling off the grid. Additionally, Crash Detection can recognize severe car accidents and automatically contact emergency services if the user is unresponsive.
Emergency SOS via satellite allows users to communicate with emergency services even when they are beyond cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.
iOS 18 enhances iPhone 16e with greater personalization, intelligence, and usability. Users can customize apps and widgets with dark or tinted themes, freely arrange them on the Home Screen, and personalize Lock Screen controls. The redesigned Control Center offers easier access to everyday features, including third-party apps. Enhanced privacy protections allow users to lock and hide apps for added security. iOS 18 also brings major improvements to Messages, including text effects, expanded Tapbacks with emoji and stickers, and scheduled message sending. Additionally, support for RCS improves messaging with non-Apple devices, providing richer media sharing and more reliable group chats.
The Home Screen on iPhone 16e can be customized by arranging apps and widgets in any open space, allowing users to create a layout that best suits their preferences and workflow.
Apple has designed the iPhone 16e with the environment in mind. As part of its Apple 2030 initiative, the company is working toward becoming carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of the decade. This includes transitioning to renewable electricity for manufacturing and investing in wind and solar projects to offset the energy used to charge Apple products. Additionally, all Apple facilities, including the data centers powering Apple Intelligence, already run on 100% renewable electricity.
To achieve Apple 2030, the company is designing products with more recycled and renewable materials to further reduce its carbon footprint. The iPhone 16e contains over 30% recycled content, including 100% recycled cobalt and 95% recycled lithium in the battery, as well as 85% recycled aluminum in the enclosure. The main logic board and back glass are designed for more efficient manufacturing, minimizing raw material usage. Additionally, iPhone 16e packaging is now entirely fiber-based, bringing Apple closer to its goal of eliminating plastic from packaging by the end of the year.
iPhone 16e will be available in white and black with 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB storage options, starting at $599 (U.S.) or $24.95 (U.S.) per month for 24 months.
For more details, visit apple.com.
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