Major change to next iPhone

The next iteration of the Apple iPhone is set to feature at least one major change to its design, an Aussie tech guru has confirmed after early models leaked.

Despite there still being months until Apple announces its announcing its newest iPhone model, “dummy models” of the upcoming iPhone 15 – and accompanying Plus, Pro, and Pro Max models – have emerged and seem to confirm a long-anticipated change to its features.

It seems Apple is phasing out its Lightning Connector on the new phone, which will instead feature a USB-C port.

If the dummies come to life, this will be the first change to the Apple charging cable since 2012, when the company introduced the iPhone 5 and changed the original 30-pin connector to the 8-pin Lightning port.

And tech reporter Trevor Long, who leaked the dummy models to his YouTube channel, said there was no reason to believe they would not be accurate, given their “history”.

“For many years I’ve been getting these dummies. I can’t even remember when the first one was,” he said.

He then held up two stacks of models for the camera, saying they were “all from the last six years, and they’ve all been absolutely spot on”.

Long said a factory in China had contacted him, like it had for years before, claiming to know what the iPhone 15 would look like and had produced a dummy version.

These dummies, he said, were not official Apple products, but were instead sent to case manufacturers in order to mass-produce iPhone 15 cases “ready for when the iPhone is announced in September”.

Long received four dummies, a standard iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max and compared them to the iPhone 14 to notice differences.