Along with improved cameras, a brand new motion button, and a titanium body, this Yr’s iPhone 15 Professional fashions could herald one other small however important change: the elimination of the gold colour possibility.
To accompany the rumored change from chrome steel to titanium, a number of experiences have advised that Apple gained’t offer the iPhone 15 Professional or iPhone 15 Professional Max in gold this 12 months. As an alternative, the choices will restricted to principally neutrals, with a shade of blue offering the one splash of colour.
If true, this might be the primary time because the 2017 iPhone X that Apple hasn’t provided a gold model of its higher-end iPhone. Whereas the iPhone X successfully ushered within the “Professional” lineup that we all know as we speak, it provided solely Silver and Area Grey — essentially the most restricted collection of colours we’d seen since 2012 when the iPhone 5 arrived in solely Black and White.
Apple launched a white gold colour scheme with the iPhone 5s the next 12 months, and annually’s iPhone lineup has provided at the very least some fashions with a variant of both Gold or Rose Gold. The 12 months the iPhone X was launched, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus carried that torch, however by 2018, it was handed to the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max when the iPhone XR adopted an entire rainbow of recent finishes. These have been additionally the primary gold-colored chrome steel fashions.
Now, ten years after Apple first debuted the gold iPhone, this could possibly be the primary 12 months we don’t have gold within the lineup.
With the iPhone 15 lineup anticipated to be unveiled in lower than three weeks, it’s a protected wager that every one of those particulars have been finalized. Now, the oldsters at 9toMac have spoken with a few of their sources and found that because the iPhone 15 Professional will “usher within the period of titanium,” it’s time to retire an outdated colour and make room for some new ones which are better-suited to the titanium therapy.
From what’s going round, meaning the usual Silver and Area Grey (which could possibly be “Area Black” this 12 months) might be joined by a Blue and “Titanium Grey” model that could possibly be dubbed “Titan Grey” from what 9to5Mac has heard. On the very least, that’s mentioned to be the working title.
These colours are additionally being corroborated by a number of different sources, with the suggestion that the darkish blue end will substitute the Deep Purple iPhone 14 Professional. The so-called “Titan Grey” would turn into the brand new gold to herald the transition from chrome steel to titanium.
What’s conspicuously lacking from these experiences is the “Crimson Red” we heard rumored last month. That appears to be off the desk now, though we’d advocate leaving some room for Apple to shock us. In any case, it wouldn’t be the first time the rumor mill got it wrong; two years in the past, a number of experiences advised we’d see the iPhone 13 Professional in orange, however what we bought as an alternative was Sierra Blue — a a lot lighter colour that no person noticed coming.
Plus, darkish blue has already been finished with the Pacific Blue iPhone 12. That doesn’t imply that Apple can’t do it once more, however it’s sufficient to throw a little bit of uncertainty into the combination. There’s additionally the likelihood that Apple is perhaps saving Crimson Purple for a spring shock prefer it did with the Alpine Green iPhone 13 Pro in early 2022.
In the meantime, don’t count on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus to select up the gold banner, though we’ll doubtless get a yellow model. Whereas several colors are being tossed around, the front-runners amongst 9to5Mac’s sources appear to be black, inexperienced, blue, yellow, and pink. There’s no point out of “Starlight” or (PRODUCT)RED version this 12 months, though that latter one could merely be a given.
[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]