The leaked iPhone SE 4 looks to keep things simple

According to mass rumors and leaks, the iPhone SE 4 of the budgetor maybe the iPhone 16EIt is supposed to debut in 2025. However, numerous conflicting rumors about the capabilities of the phone have become so confusing that we can only accept that it looks like the most basic iPhone you can buy.

Routine leaker Majin Bu has a spotty record for Apple leaks, as the false invitation published last year iPhone 16 launch event. Even so, the video has the form factor we anticipated based on previous rumors and leaks. What doesn’t help Bu’s case are the previous rumors from a fellow leaker Evan Blasswho claimed that the next cheap iPhone would have the Dynamic Island feature for the last two iPhone generations.

Here’s what the iPhone SE 4 looks like pic.twitter.com/pEyIAJ34VR

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This is either a prototype or a dummy unit, but either way, it looks like a mix of the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 15. The iPhone SE 4, judging by the video, is incredibly barebones, with a single camera bump and a front notch for the selfie camera. The design contains what it appears to be iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 16 action button, a SIM card tray, but no sign of the camera capture button. It also has a different design than the files Sonny Dickson recently published, showing an iPhone SE 4 dummy with the ring/silent switch instead of the action button of the latest Apple devices.

We’ve heard rumors about the iPhone SE 4 since 2023, which seems like a long time when you consider that Apple last put its last budget iPhone on sale three years ago. The third-generation iPhone SE also included the home button, a large speaker, and the camera cutout at the top, and had essentially the same chassis as the second-generation iPhone SE.

If the videos are true, the iPhone SE 4 is still a major improvement over its predecessor. However, it feels less like that, thanks to all the hardware improvements that Apple has made to its mobile framework in the last three years. The Cupertino tech giant has added Action and Camera Capture buttons to the base iPhone 16 instead of limiting it to the Pro models. Everything also includes a Dynamic Island, which first debuted with the iPhone 14, replacing the old camera notch.

The iPhone SE 4, or 16E, may be just one of three separate iPhone versions in 2025. iPhone 17 the launch to be the big one for its AI ambitions, but there is still noise iPhone 17 Air. That device is supposed to be Apple’s thin and light offering, made to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge announced to Galaxy Unpacked. We still need to see if these thinner phones can compete on battery life like their larger cousins. We liked the ultra-thin and ultra-shiny iPad Pro M4, which was somehow thinner than the iPad Air. Maybe there is something to be said about thin devices.

We have come to expect a lot from budget devices from the biggest furniture manufacturers. U $500 Google Pixel 8a it was everything you could get with the company’s flagship, but with worse cameras. Consumers today probably expect to get a solid iPhone experience, just at a lower price. Considering that other affordable phones, like the next one $300 Motorola Moto G Power devices, offering larger batteries and water resistance, Apple is better at giving customers an experience as close to the regular iPhone 16 as possible.