Apple is announcing the iPhone 16 series on September 9, and a new rumor claims that all four models will get 8GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17 family, coming next year, will jump to 12GB of RAM.
That’s a pretty significant jump, and it clearly has something to do with AI. Apple’s intelligence features will mostly be cloud-based this time around, but as soon as the iPhone 17 models arrive, a lot more AI will be on the device, hence the need for more RAM.
Google has already increased the amount of RAM in its devices with the Pixel 9 family that debuted earlier this month, and some of the RAM is dedicated solely to AI-related apps and nothing else.
So while Apple has traditionally equipped its iPhones with significantly less RAM than its Android competitors, that’s apparently set to change in 2025 thanks to AI. That’s if the rumor turns out to be true, of course.
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