Apple confirms that all iPhone 16 models are equipped with 8GB of RAM

An update for the base model of the series and the Plus variant, while the Pro and Pro Max remain at their current level.

A week after Apple's big event that brought the new iPhone 16 series, Apple has finally decided to confirm one of the main specifications that iPhone fans have been waiting for. It's also now official that all 16-series iPhones come with 8GB of RAM.

Tehnološki portal 9to5Mac je opazil, da je eden Applovih vodilnih, natančneje Johny Srouji, v intervjuju za Geekerwan potrdil zgornjo informacijo. Iz neznanega razloga Apple namreč nikoli ne razkrije RAM-a z ostalimi tehničnimi specifikacijami. To pomeni, da se po izidu nove serije iPhonov vedno začne neke vrste detektivsko delo, pri katerem potem novinarji po cele svetu iščejo takšne potrditve.

A few days ago, the Tech Radar portal spotted a piece of code in Apple's official developer toolkit that indicated that all iPhone 16 models have 8GB of RAM. Now this information is also confirmed. Last year, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max were equipped with 8GB of RAM, while the base model iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus offered 6GB.

This means that the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus models received an update, while the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max remain at the level of last year's models. In addition, this means that the difference between the standard and Pro models of the iPhone is shrinking.

Apple's decision not to add RAM for two models in the series probably disappointed the public. Mainly because we are all waiting hard for Apple Intelligence, which, like all other UI operations, requires a lot of memory. This is especially true for cases where processing takes place directly on the device, and in such a case, additional RAM still comes in handy.

Additionally, this means that Apple phones lag far behind the Android competition in terms of RAM. The latest Google Pixel 9 is thus equipped with 12GB of RAM, the Samsung Galaxy S24 with 8GB and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra reaches up to 12GB of RAM.

Zavedati pa se je potrebno, da te grobe specifikacije ne govorijo vedno celotne zgodbe. Glede na to, da ima Apple popolno kontrolo na vsemi deli dizajna in arhitekture iPhona, lahko pogosto dodaja optimizacije, ki nekako odtehtajo nižje nivoje specifikacij. Še en primer tega je kapaciteta baterije – iPhoni se na področju vzdržljivosti baterije pogosto lahko kosajo z rivali kljub manjšim baterijam.

We will have to wait for iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence to live up to their full potential for a final assessment of how this 8GB of RAM reacts in practice.