You also miss out on the iPhone 16’s Camera Control, you get a notch instead of a Dynamic Island, and there’s one fewer core on the GPU. All of these were expected and even understandable. But Apple has also decided not to include MagSafe, which is a big disappointing surprise (and, Apple insists, unrelated to the C1 modem ).

The entry-level iPhone starts at $600 and offers access to the same AI smarts as the rest of the iPhone lineup.

Inside, the iPhone 16e has Apple's powerful A18 chip, as well as the Apple C1, which is the first cellular modem designed in-house by Apple. This also means that the iPhone 16e can support Apple Intelligence, just like its other iPhone 16 brothers. Storage starts at 128GB, but you can also get the iPhone 16e with 256GB or 512GB of storage.