2024 is shaping as much as be a busy yr for Apple with numerous vital new releases due throughout the corporate’s product traces, however there are some noticeable absences from its rumored plans.
Utilizing info from numerous analysts and dependable sources, here is every part we’re now not anticipating Apple to launch this yr.
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 broadly anticipated to launch the gadget in 2025.
The present iPhone SE launched in March 2022, which means that it is going to be a minimum of 33 months outdated by the point its successor arrives. The subsequent-generation iPhone SE is predicted to characteristic a design primarily based 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 attributable to 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.
In accordance with Kuo, the second-generation AirTag can 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 possible 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 gadget to supply a microLED show will apparently be an upcoming Apple Watch Extremely mannequin launched in late 2025 or 2026. In truth, Apple might not replace the Apple Watch Extremely in 2024 and maintain off for the numerous show improve the next yr.
Apple’s plan to deliver a microLED show to the Apple Watch Extremely may be very broadly corroborated, beginning with a report from show analyst Ross Younger in January 2023. The microLED show is predicted to be 2.12-inches in dimension, a ten% improve over the show of the present Apple Watch Extremely.
The superior show know-how presents improved brightness, coloration copy, dynamic vary, viewing angles, and effectivity, making photos look extra like they’re “painted” atop the show glass. The challenge 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 know-how.
Whereas preliminary studies distinctively positioned the launch of the microLED Apple Watch Extremely in 2024, the newest studies level to late 2025 or doubtlessly even 2026.
iMac Professional
Apple remains to be rumored to be engaged on a high-end “iMac Professional” mannequin with a 32-inch mini-LED show and a bigger number of ports.
Regardless of the discontinuation of the iMac Professional and any iMac fashions bigger than 24-inches in 2021, Apple remains to be mentioned to have plans to launch a considerably larger and extra highly effective iMac mannequin.
Whereas Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman floated the likelihood of the machine launching in late 2024, 2025 could also be a extra possible time-frame. Ming-Chi Kuo has equally mentioned that the brand new iMac Professional will launch in 2025, so the 24-inch iMac might properly proceed to be the one Apple all-in-one desktop accessible this yr.
Foldable iPhone and iPad
Apple has been identified to be engaged on foldable show know-how for a few years, submitting a number of patents associated to the know-how, 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 sturdy indication that Apple was planning to make use of Samsung’s know-how till not too long ago.
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 gadget at the moment. Improvement 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 would 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 alleged to be targeted 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.