2024 is shaping as much as be a busy 12 months for Apple with numerous necessary new releases due throughout the corporate’s product traces, however there are some noticeable absences from its rumored plans.
Utilizing data from numerous analysts and dependable sources, this is every little thing we’re not anticipating Apple to launch this 12 months.
iPhone SE 4
Whereas Apple was beforehand rumored to be planning the launch of the fourth-generation iPhone SE for 2024, the corporate is now extensively anticipated to launch the machine in 2025.
The present iPhone SE launched in March 2022, which means that it is going to be not less than 33 months outdated by the point its successor arrives. The following-generation iPhone SE is predicted to function a design based mostly on the iPhone 14, an OLED show, a bigger battery, an Motion Button, USB-C port, Face ID, and doubtlessly Apple’s first customized 5G mobile modem.
AirTag 2
Manufacturing of the second-generation AirTag tracker was apparently resulting from kick off within the fourth quarter of 2024, however the newest forecast from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that the accent is not going to attain mass manufacturing and be launched till 2025.
Based on Kuo, the second-generation AirTag will likely be a part of a brand new spatial computing ecosystem that Apple is constructing, with the Imaginative and prescient Professional serving because the core to combine different units. A brand new AirTag would doubtless incorporate Apple’s second-generation Extremely Wideband chip that debuted within the iPhone 15 fashions, permitting for much more exact monitoring at longer distances.
MicroLED Apple Watch Extremely
The primary Apple machine to supply a microLED show will apparently be an upcoming Apple Watch Extremely mannequin launched in late 2025 or 2026. The truth is, Apple could not replace the Apple Watch Extremely in 2024 and maintain off for the numerous show improve the next 12 months.
Apple’s plan to deliver a microLED show to the Apple Watch Extremely could be very extensively corroborated, beginning with a report from show analyst Ross Younger in January 2023. The microLED show is predicted to be 2.12-inches in measurement, a ten% enhance over the show of the present Apple Watch Extremely.
The superior show expertise provides improved brightness, shade replica, dynamic vary, viewing angles, and effectivity, making photographs look extra like they’re “painted” atop the show glass. The mission is a part of Apple’s plan to cut back its reliance on Samsung as a provider whereas yielding advantages from engineering its personal shows in-house, identical to its chip expertise.
Whereas preliminary experiences distinctively positioned the launch of the microLED Apple Watch Extremely in 2024, the most recent experiences level to late 2025 or doubtlessly even 2026.
iMac Professional
Apple continues to be rumored to be engaged on a high-end “iMac Professional” mannequin with a 32-inch mini-LED show and a bigger choice of ports.
Regardless of the discontinuation of the iMac Professional and any iMac fashions bigger than 24-inches in 2021, Apple continues to be mentioned to have plans to launch a considerably larger and extra highly effective iMac mannequin.
Whereas Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman floated the chance of the machine launching in late 2024, 2025 could also be a extra doubtless timeframe. Ming-Chi Kuo has equally mentioned that the brand new iMac Professional will launch in 2025, so the 24-inch iMac could properly proceed to be the one Apple all-in-one desktop accessible this 12 months.
Foldable iPhone and iPad
Apple has been recognized to be engaged on foldable show expertise for a few years, submitting a number of patents associated to the expertise, however a foldable iPhone or iPad nonetheless appears to be fairly a while away.
Rumors in September 2020 indicated that Samsung was offering foldable show samples to Apple for a future foldable iPhone, however there had been no robust indication that Apple was planning to make use of Samsung’s expertise till lately.
In 2021, Bloomberg claimed that Apple had began “early work” on an iPhone with a foldable show, however that it had not dedicated to releasing a foldable machine at the moment. Growth in 2021 had not expanded past a show, and Apple didn’t have full foldable iPhone prototypes.
Ming-Chi Kuo initially mentioned that Apple would introduce a foldable iPhone in 2024, however in 2022, he revised his prediction and mentioned that Apple is unlikely to unveil a foldable iPhone till 2025 or later. Show analyst Ross Younger has additionally prompt 2025 is the earliest that we’d see a foldable iPhone.
Apple is predicted to deliver a foldable iPad to market earlier than a foldable iPhone, however in the interim, the corporate is claimed to be centered on increasing OLED shows all through the iPad and Mac lineups and contemplating the potential of providing a foldable iPad even additional sooner or later.
