7 iPhone 15 Rumors That Were Dead Wrong
Apple announced its iPhone 15 lineup this week with some significant upgrades, the biggest and most obvious of which is the long-rumored switch from a Lightning connector to USB-C. But that doesn't mean every prediction panned out. Here are some of the iPhone 15 rumors and guesses from the tech community that didn't come true.
In July, Barclays analyst Tim Long predicted that the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max would possibly cost $100 to $200 more than the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. When the dust settled on Apple's "Wonderlust" event, however, only the iPhone 15 Pro Max got a price hike over its predecessor, coming in at $100 more to start at $1,199. Long also predicted that the iPhone 15 would cost the same as the iPhone 14, and that turned out to be true.
The iPhone is moving to USB-C, but that doesn't mean it's getting the fastest connections available. ChargerLab last month reported on a rumor that said the newest iPhones would have Thunderbolt/USB4 chips like on the iPad Pro. Alas, even the Pro models of the iPhone 15 have mere USB 3 USB-C ports with maximum speeds of 10Gbps, a quarter of Thunderbolt 4. And even for that, you'll need to buy a USB 3 cable, since the phones only come with USB 2 cables.
A long-shot speculation from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last year said the 2023 iPhone lineup would replace the Pro Max with an Ultra model to match the Apple Watch Ultra. He followed that up in February to debunk his own rumor and say Ultra models probably wouldn't make an appearance until 2024, and that proved to be the case. For now, the Pro Max lives on.
The iPhone 15 cameras got big upgrades in resolution and—for the Pro models—lenses, but not in size. 9to5Mac's Ian Zelbo wrote in April that the iPhone 15 Pro would
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