The likely technical reason for this is the iPhone 15 Pro's A17 Pro chip, which isn't in the base iPhone 15 and offers some major performance boosts, including being able to execute twice as many operations per second as the A16 Bionic. The iPhone 16 is also rumored to be packing an A18 Pro chipset with an upgraded neural processing unit (NPU).

It’s just days until Apple’s much-anticipated special event. It looks like one of the key elements of the iPhone is to see a game-changing update.

iOS 18 is set to be a very big deal, and could finally see some serious AI features make their way to iPhone users. Unfortunately it sounds like some people won’t be able to take full advantage of those features. Because they may be limited to iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max.

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New iOS 18 rumors suggest that only the iPhone 15 Pro and onwards will get all of Apple's AI features, but that's no disaster for now.

We’ve been hearing a lot about iOS 18 ahead of WWDC 2024, which is scheduled to begin on June 10. New features, AI rumors and all sorts of changes to expect from the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system.

We've now heard more about what AI tools are coming to your iPhone this year. A few sound promising while others are going to require an explanation from Apple.