Prototype iPhone 16 features and designs that didn’t make it to mass production
Apple’s iPhone 16 lineup has introduced an array of hardware improvements, but some of Apple’s planned features never made it to mass production.
Marko Zivkovic for AppleInsider:
For the iPhone 16, Apple originally wanted to include both a Bongo-style unified volume button as well as a capacitive Action button and Camera Control. Ultimately, the Camera Control is the only one that made it to the final product.
Apple had already abandoned Project Bongo on the iPhone 16 Pro by the Proto1 stage of development. The Proto2 stage eliminated Project Atlas, making the Camera Control the only new feature for the iPhone 16.
[P]re-production prototypes of the base model iPhone 16 used two distinct camera designs. One of them, which saw more extensive use on prototype devices, looked nearly identical to the camera bump of the iPhone 12…
These camera bump designs were never realized, and they only appeared on prototype units. Apple eventually settled on a third design that maintains stylistic cues from both, and this is what ended up on the final version of the base model iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
The capacitive Action button, Camera Control as well as unified, haptic volume buttons were also tested on prototypes of the standard iPhone 16. Aside from the Camera Control, the projects never made it to mass production.
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