New iPod Touch 2022 tipped for fall launch — here's your first look

New iPod Affect 2021 tipped for autumn launch — here's your showtime wait

(Image credit: @SteveMoser / @AppleLe257 / @Apple_Tomorrow)

The iPod Touch hasn't been touched past Apple since 2019. Merely that could be virtually to modify. According to MacRumors writer Steve Moser, nosotros may not be waiting too long for a stylish refresh.

"This autumn Apple is planning to release the next version of the iPod Touch," Moser tweeted, citing a rumor heard from Twitter user @AppleLe257. He included a number of renders created by @Apple_Tomorrow, which nosotros've included here.

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As you can come across, the pictures show a device that looks remarkably like the iPhone 12 with square edges and Face ID for unlocking. That would be a welcome change, given the current iPod Bear on design has remained pretty much unchanged from the fifth-generation 2012 version, which looked a lot similar the iPhone 5. And while that means information technology has a home button for navigation, in that location was no Touch ID built in, so an upgrade to Face ID would exist hugely welcome.

In November 2020, Apple added 'iPod touch' to their Apple Music PR blurb. Well now we know why. This Fall Apple tree is planning to release the side by side version of the iPod bear on. Thanks to @AppleLe257 for sourcing info & @Apple_Tomorrow for the renders! pic.twitter.com/ImQQj3hxDcMay 21, 2021

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Information technology'south interesting to speculate whether an upgrade to current iPhone design would see other Apple modernizations being introduced to a new iPod Touch. The nearly recent model, for example, still has a 4-inch screen, which is a relic by modern standards – fifty-fifty Apple's iPhone 12 mini packs a 5.iv-inch display. The iPod Touch has kept the 3.5mm headphone jack, which makes sense for a device that's dedicated to music and video consumption, but Apple tree'south phones oasis't had that connectivity since the iPhone 6s and original iPhone SE.

Of course, fifty-fifty if a new iPod Bear upon appears with iPhone 12 looks, that doesn't hateful information technology will have iPhone 12 internals. The final iPod Touch used the Apple A10 Fusion chip, which was already showing its age, having debuted three years earlier with the iPhone vii. Bluntly, if Apple is looking to replicate the electric current iPod Affect'southward $199 starting toll this time around, then there's no way information technology volition include the iPhone 12's A14 processor.

It'due south important to annotation that even Moser himself calls this a "rumor" rather than a bona fide leak. "Delight notation that this information has not been independently verified and should be treated equally a rumor, not a leak," he wrote in a follow-up tweet. Just, as Moser notes, some acceptance is given by Apple's addition of the words "iPod Touch" to the Apple Music PR text last November.

We volition accept to expect and see. Apple tree's contempo moves in the audio space – from introducing the $549 AirPods Max headphones, to calculation lossless audio to Apple Music at no actress charge – betoken to a visitor that'due south serious near music. Surely giving the original dedicated portable music actor a 2021 makeover would be the biggest argument of intent yet.

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