Secret information for the iPhone 16E in US database published

In addition to unintentional leaks on new Apple products-including iPads, MacBooks and a new vision Pro-the US Communication Authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) also has another error in terms of hardware from Cupertino. At the end of September, a total of 163 pages of detailed technical paper for Apple’s current entry-level cell phone, the iPhone 16E. The information was both on the official FCC website-which, however, is difficult to search-as well as On the data mining page fccid.io to find. In the meantime, they can no longer be downloaded there either.

Many pages with details

How the approval came about remains unclear – the FCC actually has routines, documents that are only intended for internal use to provide a so -called FCC ID, but only to release them themselves. The PDF dealt with all iPhone-16e models that wear the model numbers A3212, A3408, A3409 and A3410. According to the cover letter, the document comes directly from Apple and was sent to the FCC on September 16, 2024 – of course, including the request for confidentiality. The document contains block diagrams, technical descriptions, circuit diagrams, antenna position, the so-called tune-up procedure and much more-there are also information about software security.

It cannot be said whether there are potential attack areas for hackers from the information, but competitors should be very interested in such data. Apple’s confidentiality protocol is famous and noticeable-the more annoying is this leak, even if the 16e is not the very latest device. It came onto the market in spring 2025 and was the first iPhone with Apple’s own mobile phone chip, the Apple C1. Competitors are likely to be interested in information about this.

FCC reduces employees

Otherwise, the hardware includes a current A18 chip as well as look and feel of the iPhone 14, including its display and camera cer (without Dynamic Island). Neither Apple nor the FCC commented on the leak.

The US government is currently in one so -called shutdown Due to a budget that has not been released. Like numerous other federal institutions, the authority is currently not able to work. Before that, she is said to have dismantled employees, which could have contributed to the fact that such errors happen, suspect observers.