Apple didn’t simply change the expected iPhone SE 4 name to iPhone 16e — they’re distinct product lines and all the data points to a strategy shift.
iPhone 16e is here, and it’s not the iPhone SE
We should have seen this coming. Every Apple-focused website saw Tim Cook’s post on February 13 and assumed that it was an iPhone SE 4 reveal.
After all, almost all of the rumors for the last 18 months have called it the iPhone SE 4.