It’s iPhone 16 pre-orders day and that normally means one factor – overthinking which shade you are going to go for this 12 months. With Apple introducing deeper tones on the iPhone 16 base fashions and a brand new Desert Titanium shade for the Pro, it is a tough determination – so we have carried out a ballot that can assist you determine.
Over on the TechRadar WhatsApp channel (which we might suggest following should you aren’t already), tons of of you could have revealed which shade you are planning to purchase right this moment when pre-orders begin at 5am PDT / 8am ET / 1pm GMT on the Apple Store (in different phrases, proper now).
As you’ll be able to see beneath, there is a clear winner for the iPhone 16, however the iPhone 16 Pro vote is far more divided. We suppose the outcomes mirror a whole lot of the web chatter we have seen about the preferred shades for Apple’s new telephones, however they might even be a helpful information on what soon-to-be-ubiquitous colours to keep away from.
Naturally, the colour of your iPhone 16 or 16 Pro could also be secondary to which case you are going to get, however should you’re shopping for a clear protector then these are the hues that almost all TechRadar readers might be pre-ordering right this moment…
| Row 0 – Cell 0 | US beginning value | UK beginning value |
| iPhone 16 | $799 | £799 |
| iPhone 16 Plus | $899 | £899 |
| iPhone 16 Pro | $999 | £999 |
| iPhone 16 Pro Max | $1199 | £1199 |
iPhone 16 winner: Ultramarine
There’s a transparent winner in our outcomes (beneath) for the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus – an enormous 49% of you stated you will be pre-ordering Apple’s base telephones in Ultramarine.
That’s comprehensible – it is the one which additionally stood out to us in our hands-on iPhone 16 evaluation. The shade is technically a mixture of blues, simply do not let Apple hear you name it blue.
What’s slightly extra stunning from these outcomes, given how a lot Apple freshened up the iPhone 16’s palette with bolder colours, is that the second hottest shade is Black (with 29% of the vote). Then once more, Black is a basic, understated alternative that is extra consistent with the impartial shades of the Pro and Pro Max.
In third place with a surprisingly low 11% of the vote is the moderately pretty Teal shade, whereas White (6% of the vote) and Pink (4%) battled it out for final place. Pink is an actual opinion-splitter, however those that plump for it can be certain they’re going to be in choose firm.
iPhone 16 Pro winner: Black
This was an in depth one – and given the iPhone 16 Pro’s colours are far more subdued (or some may say, underwhelming), that is not a lot of a shock.
But the general winner was Black Titanium, which garnered precisely 50% of the vote. This is the colour we performed with in our hands-on iPhone 16 Pro evaluation, wherein we famous that “its Black Titanium physique felt simply as strong and easy as earlier than”.
In an in depth second was the brand new Desert Titanium, which received 32% of the vote. That new shade has prompted some dialogue on-line, the place many have debated whether or not it is extra gold or copper – we predict it undoubtedly leans extra in direction of the previous, making it one thing of a Rose Gold successor.
Surprisingly, Natural Titanium (which we now take into account to be a ‘default’ iPhone Pro shade) solely picked up 10% of the vote, whereas White Titanium got here final with 8% of readers saying that they’re going to be pre-ordering it right this moment.
