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Radical iPhone 11 Changes! Product RED, Price & Stylus

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Apple’s next iPhone might look almost identical from the outside, but everything underneath the glass is reportedly getting torn out and rebuilt.

EverythingApplePro’s Filip Koroy dropped a video in early August 2019 titled “Radical iPhone 11 Changes! Product RED, Price & Stylus,” pulling together leaked components and supply chain chatter ahead of Apple’s fall keynote. The focus isn’t the cameras or the notch — it’s a redesigned motherboard, a bigger battery, and pricing that Apple appears to be holding steady rather than pushing higher. Koroy also digs into whether the entry-level model launches in Product(RED) and whether the flagship OLED phones finally get Apple Pencil support.

• Leaked internals point to a single-layer logic board and a larger, single-cell, L-shaped battery designed to free up space, extend battery life, and enable bilateral (reverse) wireless charging for AirPods and the Apple Watch.
• Pricing leaks suggest Apple keeps its existing tiers: roughly $749 for the iPhone XR successor, with the OLED flagships landing at $999 and $1,099.
• The entry-level LCD model is reportedly confirmed to ship day-one in a Product(RED) finish, while analysts and accessory makers keep floating Apple Pencil compatibility for the OLED phones as a direct answer to Samsung’s Galaxy Note line.

A Motherboard Overhaul Nobody Saw Coming

The centerpiece of Koroy’s breakdown is a leaked internal layout showing Apple moving to a single-layer logic board for the 2019 phones, replacing the more compact multi-layer stack used in the iPhone XS generation. Shrinking the board down to one layer frees up physical volume inside a chassis that hasn’t grown, and Apple appears to be using nearly all of that reclaimed space for one thing: battery.

Paired with the new board is a single-cell, L-shaped battery that wraps around the internal components rather than sitting in a rectangular block. According to the leaked parts Koroy walks through, this shape lets Apple squeeze in more battery capacity without altering the phone’s external dimensions — a fix aimed squarely at the battery-life complaints that have followed the iPhone lineup for years.

Reverse Wireless Charging Enters the Picture

That larger battery isn’t just about longer screen-on time. Koroy’s video ties the redesigned power system directly to persistent rumors of bilateral, or reverse, wireless charging — letting the iPhone itself top up an Apple Watch or a set of AirPods by setting them on the back of the phone. Samsung and Huawei have already shipped versions of this feature on their own flagships, and the leaked hardware changes suggest Apple built the extra battery capacity specifically to support it without tanking all-day battery performance.

A single-cell, L-shaped battery bigger than anything in the XS lineup — that’s the leak driving almost every other rumor in this story.

The Price Tags Leaking Out

On pricing, Koroy’s sourcing points to Apple holding the line rather than pushing costs up again. The successor to the iPhone XR is rumored to stay around $749, while the two OLED flagships are expected to land at $999 and $1,099 — the same three-tier structure Apple introduced in 2018. For a company that’s taken heat over rising smartphone prices, keeping the entry point under $750 while adding hardware like the new battery and reverse charging would be a notable move, and it’s a big reason the leak spread as fast as it did among Apple-watchers.

Product RED and the Stylus Question

Color leaks confirm the budget LCD model launches on day one in Product(RED), joining a lineup of other bright finishes rather than arriving as a delayed spring refresh the way past RED iPhones have. It’s a small detail, but it signals Apple treating the color as a headline feature rather than an afterthought this time around.

The bigger open question Koroy tackles is Apple Pencil support on the OLED flagships. Investment analysts and accessory manufacturers have been floating stylus compatibility for months, and the framing is consistent: Apple positioning a Pencil-capable iPhone as a direct answer to Samsung’s Galaxy Note series, which has owned stylus-driven productivity features on a phone for years. Nothing in the leaked schematics confirms Pencil hardware support outright, but the chatter is loud enough that Koroy treats it as a real possibility rather than wishful thinking.

Between the new board, the L-shaped battery, and pricing that doesn’t creep upward, the leaks Koroy laid out gave Apple-watchers their clearest read yet on what’s changing under the hood before the keynote invite even went out. Whether the Pencil rumor actually lands remains the one piece nobody had nailed down.