Will the iPhone 16 Pro have more RAM to handle on-device AI?

It's more likely for someone to say Voldemort out loud in a Harry Potter movie than for Apple to mention the amount of RAM on the iPhone. It's as if Apple is afraid to speak about iPhone memory, even though that's clearly not the case with the iPad Pro and the Mac.

By the way, the M3 Max MacBook Pro supports up to 128GB of RAM, which is mindblowing. It's what some professionals might need on a powerful computer. But Apple isn't as ready to discuss the RAM on iPhones and how increasing it might help with pro-grade tasks.

Fast-forward to the iPhone 15 Pro, and we don't really care about how much RAM it packs. We know it's 8GB, a bump from 6GB on the iPhone 14 Pro. But we've been trained not to worry about it. And, indeed, the iPhone 15 is faster than Android handsets that have a lot more RAM. Then again, remember that 24GB of RAM is the new trend for 2024 Android flagships.

However, there might be a good reason for Apple to bump the RAM on the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max: on-device generative AI features. According to an estimate, on-device artificial intelligence will require plenty of processing power and memory.

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