Dubious invite strongly hints at bronze iPhone 16 Pro at September Apple event [u]

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Apple's special event will be taking place on September 10 with an in-person event at Apple Park showing off a bronze iPhone 16 Pro, according to a dubious shared invite.

An alleged Apple Event invite [Majin Bu/X]

Apple is expected to send out invitations in the few weeks before its widely anticipated September special event. If one leaker is to be believed, it will be an in-person affair.

The image shared by serial leaker Majin Bu depicts what could easily be taken as an invite to an Apple Event. Using the heading "Ready. Set. Capture," the invitation includes an Apple logo using a bronze gradient effect.

It is likely that this color is selected due to rumors that Apple will introduce a bronze titanium model of iPhone 16 Pro.

The rest of the invitation seems fairly typical for an event email from Apple, including text inviting the recipient to "join us in person" at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park.

The invite adds that it will be held on September 10, 2024, at 10 A.M. PT. An RSVP button appears just below.

According to what I was told by a source who asked to remain anonymous, the new Apple event where the iPhone 16 will be presented, will be held on September 10 2024.
This should be the cover of the invitation pic.twitter.com/7jGoafHaOU

-- Majin Bu (@MajinBuOfficial)

August 19, 2024

While it could be a genuine invitation, a number of factors work against it being true. For a start, it seems to be a little early to actually receive an invitation to Apple Park, with a late-August message more likely.

Majin Bu also offers little help in confirming it is genuine. It was provided by a source who asked to remain anonymous, and Bu even admits "I have no way of verifying that this information is real."

It also doesn't help that the format of Apple's event invites is fairly easy to replicate by anyone with some design knowledge and awareness of Apple's typical styling tendencies.

What is most likely is that the date is correct. AppleInsider previously determined that September 10 was the most likely date for the event to be held.

The shared invite has a small chance of being actually genuine. However, you can certainly expect to see more similar attempts to create fake invites circulating social media before Apple actually distributes its real message.

Update August 20: It turns out that AppleInsider's suspicions were quite correct about it being a fake invite. It turns out that it was.

In a thread on X, @Lorevfx confessed to having made the invitation, along with a video showing how it was constructed. It was produced using "Figma and an AI-generated texture," they claim.

Fun fact: i made the "leaked" Apple Event invite in less than 10 minutes using figma and an Ai generated texture
and i sent it to the leaker just because i was bored pic.twitter.com/3tX9QgUy4p

— Lore (@lorevfx)

August 20, 2024

Furthermore, a video is posted showing a conversation between Majin Bu and the faker, showing how the leaker was taken in by a story Lore admits "was quite stupid."

On their part, Majin Bu is graceful in admitting to being tricked, retweeting the explanation video and claiming they "appreciate your effort though, if you need someone for graphics contact this guy."

At the very least, this demonstrates the issue of rumor sharing and believing them as fact. Unless there's a history of accuracy from a source, a feasible explanation for its leakage, or other evidence to corroborate the claims, it's entirely probable that it's a fake.

Rumor Score: B#$&(*it

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robin huber

Oh boy! Zune Brown. 

mike1

IF it was an in-person event, is it really too soon since people would need to make travel arrangements?

blastdoor

robin huber said:

Oh boy! Zune Brown. 

yeah... I really can't imagine ever buying something with that color. 

Also... I'm really hoping to hold onto my iPhone 13 Pro for at least another year. While I'm optimistic that Apple Intelligence will eventually provide a compelling reason to upgrade, I'm less optimistic that will be the case this year. And when it does become a compelling reason to upgrade, I'm guessing it will lead me to upgrade my Mac before it leads me to upgrade other Apple devices. In this post-pandemic, work from home world, my Mac has become relatively more important to me than "mobile" devices. 

charlesn

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

blastdoor

charlesn said:

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

If it's not fake, then I think it's very safe to assume that 'Capture' does not refer to a button, but rather to the centrality of photography to the iPhone. The camera and associated silicon+software is arguably the single most important feature of the device. 

charlesn

blastdoor said:

charlesn said:

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

If it's not fake, then I think it's very safe to assume that 'Capture' does not refer to a button, but rather to the centrality of photography to the iPhone. The camera and associated silicon+software is arguably the single most important feature of the device. 

Except this has been true of iPhone--certainly the Pro models--for a very long time, nothing new about that, while the rumor mill has been rife with "leaks" that a "capture button" will be a new feature. We shall see soon enough. 

apple4thewin

I mean this version of “bronze” looks more appealing than the leak photo

MagnificotheMediocre

"Ready. Set. Capture." doesn't sound like Apple.

blastdoor

charlesn said:

blastdoor said:

charlesn said:

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

If it's not fake, then I think it's very safe to assume that 'Capture' does not refer to a button, but rather to the centrality of photography to the iPhone. The camera and associated silicon+software is arguably the single most important feature of the device. 

Except this has been true of iPhone--certainly the Pro models--for a very long time, nothing new about that, while the rumor mill has been rife with "leaks" that a "capture button" will be a new feature. We shall see soon enough. 

Yeah, there's nothing new about the centrality of photography, but there's plenty of room for innovation. They almost always make new camera-related features a highlight of a new iPhone. Even if they use the 'capture' button as a marketing focus, there will almost certainly be more compelling photography-related innovations at the same time -- that is, it won't just be about a button -- that's really too silly to seriously contemplate. 

nubus

charlesn said:

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. 

I'm sorry but go to apple.com and look at iPhone 15. Photo, photo, speed, and... USB-C. Yes... the standard Apple spent 10 years trying to avoid is now the best part of iPhone 15.

While iPhone 16 is getting a shutter button news is that iPhone 17 will move forward. Dynamic Pro Motion Control will allow you to use the latest Apple Pencil Pro with iPhone and turn it to rewind audio and video.

StrangeDays

charlesn said:

blastdoor said:

charlesn said:

Almost certainly fake, but still... Please tell me that a shutter button... excuse me, I mean "capture button..." isn't going to be a heavily promoted "new feature" of iPhone 16. If we've reached the point where "new" is something almost as old as photography, itself... not to mention something already available on iPhones via any one of THREE different buttons!... then Cupertino desperately needs some new idea people. 

If it's not fake, then I think it's very safe to assume that 'Capture' does not refer to a button, but rather to the centrality of photography to the iPhone. The camera and associated silicon+software is arguably the single most important feature of the device. 

Except this has been true of iPhone--certainly the Pro models--for a very long time, nothing new about that, while the rumor mill has been rife with "leaks" that a "capture button" will be a new feature. We shall see soon enough. 

I welcome a better capture button. The mute button is on the wrong side. 

Mike Wuerthele

mike1 said:

IF it was an in-person event, is it really too soon since people would need to make travel arrangements?

Two weeks or less is typical. We're expecting the announcement next week -- assuming it's in person.

brassens

Do you think “Delorean” will take us back to the Bronze Age?

9secondkox2

Ready set capture?

seriously?

that’s the best tagline they could come up with?

wow. 

Also, a poorly designed invite?

nothing special or “coded” about it. Just a gradient apple in the leaked brown color? 

charlesn

Well... based on Apple Insider's just released leak of every 16/16 Pro feature, it looks like the Capture button is going to be the, cough, "headliner," so this invitation card might be the real deal after all. Prediction: the iPhone 17 tagline will be "Tune in," a clever reference to its "all new" pull-out and collapsible antenna.