Reports about what will be in the 2020 iPhones are hitting the wire. We’ve compiled the most notable ones here, but take these with a big grain of salt. Even if these reports are accurate representations of what suppliers are saying, or come from moles within Apple itself, the company’s plans can and do change. There’s still plenty of time before the design and features have to be totally set in stone.
Update 3/20/20: Bloomberg throws cold water on the reports of shipping delays and says the iPhone 12 is on track for its usual September arrival.
Production on track for September
Despite earlier reports that the iPhone 12 could see delays that push the release into October or even 2021, a new Bloomberg report says that the struggles Apple and the rest of the world is facing due to the coronavirus "have yet to severely derail the 5G iPhone launch in the fall." As Mark Gurman and Debby Wu explain, Apple generally shores up its next iPhone design shortly after the release of the current model and eyes April as a start date for mass production of the new cases. The report notes that Apple has already built "a limited number of test versions of the new models." However, with so much uncertainly, it's still possible that the timeline "could slip," Bloomberg cautions.
