If you're already decided on the new iPhone 16, one of the choices you now need to make is what color phone to buy. And now, new colors are brightening up the lineup. At the Apple event on Monday, the company announced the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will come in white and black (ho-hum) as well as teal (minty green), pink (and is it ever a bright pink), and ultramarine (an ocean blue color). There's something kind of Miami Vice about the bright new hues.
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The new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will have a redesigned rear camera bump that aligns the sensors vertically, which should make them capable of recording spatial video for viewing on Apple's Vision Pro headset.
They'll also have a dedicated camera shutter button, which Apple calls the camera control. And there's an action button that lets you set shortcuts to open specific apps or tasks.
- Of the new colors, the brilliant deep blue ultramarine earned some early social buzz.
- "The new colours are bangers! Ultramarine is just 💗." wrote one X user.
- But cool colors might not sell everyone on forking out hundreds of dollars for a new phone.
- "Ultramarine is lit🔥 but my 14 pro max still flawless ... so I'll wait till 17gen then lol," wrote another X user.