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According to DigiTimes, Apple will add Wi-Fi 7 technology to this year's iPhone 16 Pro series. It will still be exclusive to Pro, and the two standard versions will still be Wi-Fi 6E.

It is worth noting that Apple's move is nearly two years behind Android flagships.

It is reported that many Snapdragon 8 Gen2 models such as Xiaomi 13 released at the end of 2022 already supported Wi-Fi 7 networks.

However, domestic Wi-Fi 7 will not be available until the second half of 2023. After that, manufacturers will gradually unlock the Wi-Fi 7 protocol for older models.

It should be noted that Wi-Fi 7 not only requires terminal device support, but also router synchronization support to experience it. In other words, friends who want to experience full-blood performance need to replace the Wi-Fi 7 router after purchasing the iPhone 16 Pro series.

Fortunately, the price of Wi-Fi 7 routers has been brought down by domestic manufacturers, and products priced between 200 and 300 yuan are sufficient for ordinary households.

It is reported that Wi-Fi 7 is IEEE 802.11be, and the routers that support it are generally named "BE", just like "AX" in the Wi-Fi 6 era and "AC" in the Wi-Fi 5 era.

Wi-Fi 7 introduces MLO (Multi-Link Operation) chip-level multi-connection technology for the first time. In layman's terms, this is like two highways transmitting signals together, with greater throughput, avoiding network speed reduction, lag, disconnection, etc.

In addition, Wi-Fi 7 also introduces 4096-QAM, which increases the network transmission capacity from 10 bits to 12 bits per time. Compared with Wi-Fi 6, the throughput performance of Wi-Fi 7 is improved by about 20%.

The typical speed of Wi-Fi 7 is 30Gbps, and the peak speed can exceed 40Gbps.

In comparison, the peak speed of Wi-Fi 6 is 9.6Gbps, while Wi-Fi 5 is only 3.5Gbps.