- iPhone SE 4 now not tipped to get a Dynamic Island
- Instead it’s going to extra carefully match the iPhone 14’s design
- It will, nevertheless, get an Action button per current leaks
A brand new mannequin in Apple’s budget-friendly iPhone SE line, the iPhone SE 4, is anticipated to land later this 12 months, and leaks are already teasing key design particulars – and the most recent stories recommend that the SE 4 will miss out on the Dynamic Island, however might get the Action Button.
Starting with the dangerous information, rumors had instructed that the iPhone SE 4 would characteristic the Dynamic Island, which customers of all iPhone 15 and 16 handsets, and the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, have been having fun with (or not, because the case is for our editor-at-large Lance Ulanoff).
However, that now doesn’t appear set to be the case. We reported a few days in the past {that a} new leaked video had teased the return of the notch on the upcoming SE, and now show analyst Ross Young has claimed on social media that the notch is certainly returning.
The Dynamic Island stories got here from one other normally dependable leaker in Evan Blass, and these extra reliable tipsters sometimes don’t contradict one another – particularly not within the run-up to an anticipated product launch. However a 3rd leaker – who goes by Majin Bu on-line – has defined that the confusion comes from Apple testing an SE 4 with a Dynamic Island throughout growth earlier than finally selecting the notch.
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Bu has additionally been sharing photos and video stated to indicate the iPhone SE 4, and in his most up-to-date submit on X he claims the telephone will get an improve from a 4.7-inch display screen to a 6.06-inch 60Hz OLED show (so with the notch it ought to look loads just like the iPhone 14), and the Action Button.
Having debuted on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max earlier than making its option to all of the iPhone 16 fashions, the Action Button is a programmable button which replaces the silence mode change the featured on older fashions.
You can nonetheless use it to silence your telephone in a rush, however if you happen to go away your iPhone’s ringer off anyway you possibly can change the button to as a substitute allow you to entry different instruments like your digital camera or torch – and utilizing shortcuts you possibly can even make the button do a number of various things based mostly on how and while you use it.
As with all leaks we should always take these notch and Action Button stories with a pinch of salt. We’ve already seen the leaked design of the iPhone SE 4 change, so there’s at all times an opportunity that it’ll change once more earlier than Apple makes the gadget official.
That stated, based mostly on all the things we have seen and heard, the iPhone SE 4 is shaping as much as be a strong smartphone with the identical A18 chip discovered within the iPhone 16 and 8GB of RAM – each of which recommend Apple Intelligence assist.
