IPhone 13 Release Date: When Might We See Apple’s New Smartphone?

Apple’s iPhone 12 is approaching one year old and its successor is reportedly called iphone 13, could arrive in the coming months. We don’t know for sure, but Apple’s latest smartphone could debut in September alongside the Apple watch 7 and AirPod 3 during the tech giant fall event.

Similar to the iPhone 12 announcement last year, the iPhone 13 the event can be online only. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman speculated in his Power On newsletter in July that Apple’s next event would be completely virtual due to the tech giant’s alleged decision to delay his return to work in person due to increase in COVID-19 cases.

Apple initially said all employees would be forced to report to the office three days a week from September. Gurman says if Apple stuck to the September schedule, an in-person iPhone 13 event would have been “plausible.” Now he expects another online-only event.

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While the event may be entirely virtual, we expect to see four versions of the new phone: the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, according to analyst Ming. -Chi Kuo.

Apple’s first event in 2021 happened in April, where we saw new iPad, colorful iMac, a iPhone 12 purple and AirTags trackers. And came WWDC in June, where we had a first glimpse iOS 15. And there was no word from Apple on the iPhone 13 at either event.

But no one expected the iPhone 13 to be announced so soon. So when can we expect Apple to unveil its next flagship phones? Apple has not yet hinted at an event date for the iPhone 13. Based on Apple’s history, however, we can generally predict when the company’s iPhone events will occur and make an educated guess on a release date based on that.

While the pandemic changed the usual course for 2020, marking the first September Apple event in eight years without iPhone Due to manufacturing delays, Kuo predicts that 2021 will see a return to typical corporate cadence. A March 24 Report based on supply chain information, also shows an iPhone 13 release date in late September. And an April report from DigiTimes cited industry insiders as saying production of the new phone chips was ahead of schedule, which should put the phone’s release back on a familiar pre-COVID timeline.

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If all of this is true, we can expect to get our first glimpse of the iPhone 13 at an event in September.

Apple typically holds its events on Tuesday or Wednesday, and iPhone release dates are typically set around a week and a half after Apple announces the new devices. Usually, new iPhones are released on a Friday, around the third week of September.

A few years ago, CNET delved into the Apple Timeline of Events and came out with a Labor Day Hypothesis, which you can read here. Based on the 2021 calendar, the Labor Day rule would place the September Apple event (and the unveiling of the iPhone 13) on September 8, with a release date of September 17.

We won’t know if this is true until Apple announces an event and shows the phones. But if you want to plan ahead and save for an iPhone 13, we’d bet on the September schedule, at least for now.

For more information, see Why the iPhone 13 might have a always-on display at 120Hz and our iPhone 12 test.