Apple’s iPhone 15 Professional fashions shall be accessible with a brand new 2TB most storage possibility, claims a brand new rumor popping out of China.

In response to information aggregator account “yeux1122” on the Korean Naver weblog, a provider supply has confirmed that the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max shall be accessible with double the utmost storage capability because the iPhone 14 Professional fashions.

As well as, MacRumors has found a Weibo account that posted over the weekend making the identical declare, whereas including that the Professional fashions are prone to begin with a minimal of 256GB storage reasonably than the present base 128GB capability on iPhone 14 fashions.

Within the latter state of affairs, Apple would be capable of keep 4 accessible storage tiers – 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB. Such storage bumps might additionally dovetail with rumors that Apple is ready to extend the worth of iPhone 15 Professional fashions this 12 months.

Each Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman and tech analyst Jeff Pu say they anticipate worth hikes for this 12 months’s Professional fashions. Pu believes the iPhone 15 Professional may very well be priced beginning at $1,099, up from the $999 beginning worth of the iPhone 14 Professional. If that is correct, the iPhone 15 Professional Max may very well be priced beginning at $1,199.

In fact, it is also doable that the 2TB rumor is off the mark and that Apple is just growing the price of the gadgets to spice up income amid a decline within the smartphone market. Notice that final 12 months’s iPhone 14 Professional fashions have been additionally rumored to come back in a 2TB possibility, however that did not occur.

Apple first added a 1TB storage possibility for the ‌iPhone 13‌ Professional and ‌iPhone 13‌ Professional Max in 2021. The brand new possibility was due primarily to new digicam options, akin to ProRes video, which consumes considerably extra storage than common movies.

For instance, to document ProRes video in 4K at 30 frames per second, an iPhone 14 Professional mannequin with a 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB storage capability is required. ProRes video recording is proscribed to 1080p at 30 frames per second on iPhone 14 Professional fashions with a 128GB storage capability. If Apple did enhance the bottom storage of the iPhone 15 Professional to 256GB, all fashions would turn out to be able to recording ProRes in 4K at 30fps.

We’ll know for certain what Apple has in retailer for the iPhone 15 Professional in simply over a month. Apple’s annual iPhone occasion is predicted to happen on both Tuesday, September 12, or Wednesday, September 13, in line with Gurman.