When Apple unveils the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max this fall, and you can read about exactly when that will be here, the handsets will come in new colors. One of them will be entirely different from the current iPhone 15 Pro range. And it’s just been named in a new leak.
The four colors in the range have been described by regular leaker Majin Bu who has recently been caught up in a controversy having posted a supposed invite to the event when the iPhone will be announced. The invite was fake (as I talked about here) and Majin Bu quickly set the record straight.
They are on more solid ground here, I suspect, when saying the colors will be will be white, black, gold and gray, but Apple won’t call them that. Majin Bu posted on the topic on X. The current Pro model colors are named Natural Titanium, Blue Titanium, White Titanium and Black Titanium. The most eagle-eyed will have spotted that Apple is keen on promoting the fact that the iPhone 15 Pro has titanium in its build.The new range seems similar, with gray likely to be a new version of Natural Titanium. And the gold? According to the leak, it’s going to be called Desert Titanium. Majin Bu says, in a separate post, “The desert titanium color is kind of dark gold, similar to the old purple color, relatively discreet and deep.”
Deep Purple was a color in the iPhone 14 Pro range and was indeed dark enough to be discreet. The new color is thought to be a warmish brown color, though the real thing could be different. Predictions of the exact shades that Apple will use are rarely absolutely spot-on.
But the name, if it proves correct, gives us a clue and it suggests something light and gaudier than the rest of the range.
This fits with a series of other rumors and dummy versions of the iPhone 16 Pro series released recently. As always, just because several commentators predict the same details doesn’t make it true, though weight of numbers sometimes adds to likelihood.
The new report also chimes with others which say that the blue iPhone in the current Pro range will be dropped, to be replaced with the new color.
Majin Bu has more recently posted again, with an image of what could be the new color, saying, “This image could resemble the new Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, what do you think?” They also slightly hedged their bets by going on, “The image is based on rumors, it is not certain that the official coloring will reflect this 100%.”
One other detail, in the earlier post, Majin Bu showed camera rings for the iPhone 16 Pro in the four colors. The rings looks shiny, perhaps indicating the brushed-finish titanium of the 15 Pro series could be replaced with something more polished.
By this time next month, the iPhones will be on sale, so we’ll know more soon.
