Dear Apple, I want “Space Black” on everything, including an iPhone 16 in “dark mode”

“Space Black” looks badass – period. When Apple launched the Space Black MacBook Pro during Apple’s “Scary Fast” livestream event in October, I was salivating.

There is something mysterious, burning and seductive.

If the Space Black MacBook Pro were personified, I imagine it would be Morpheus of The matrix or a mature Wednesday Addams. Or better yet, a dark movie detective with a swagger, dressed in an onyx suit, sitting in a cloud of smoke as he smokes his cigar in a seedy bar.

Space Black isn’t just a color to me. It’s a mood, an ambiance that fits my quiet mystique and my enigmatic introverted personality. And I want it Allincluding the upcoming iPhone 16.

Space Black debuted last year, but with limitations

As mentioned at the start, Apple unveiled the new Space Black MacBook Pro last year – and it sent Apple enthusiasts into a tizzy.

It’s not just the color that got people talking. It featured a fingerprint-resistant dark aluminum finish, which kept people, including myself, in a chokehold.

I love the color of my 15-inch MacBook Air M2, available in Midnight Blue. (It’s the closest thing to black with Starlight, Space Gray and Silver on the menu.) However, I have to keep a microfiber cloth handy; it attracts fingerprints like bees to honey.

My 15-inch MacBook Air M2
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Space Black on the MacBook Pro, on the other hand, features a “revolutionary chemical” finish, as Apple calls it, that forms an anodizing seal to keep pesky fingerprints at bay. Insert heart-eyes emoji here!

However, if you wanted a Space Black MacBook Pro, you’d be crazy to think you could get the cheapest model, starting at $1,599 (MacBook Pro with M3 chip). We should at least catch the M3 Pro MacBook Pro, which costs you $1,999. Phew! I guess my dreams of typing on a laptop that looks ripped off a black Optimus Prime will have to wait.

Space Black is certainly not the first pure black color for Apple’s MacBook. As Reverse pointed out, Apple released the first black MacBook in 2006 (although the first black Apple laptop was the Powerbook G3.)

Apple G3 Powerbook
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Well, since then, you’d be hard-pressed to find a black MacBook. As such, I can’t help but wonder if this is a brilliant marketing ploy where the Cupertino-based tech giant was playing the long game.

Black is common among other laptop brands (e.g. Lenovo), but the scarcity of true black among MacBooks has made people “lose their minds”, as Inverse said, when Apple unveiled the MacBook Pro Space Black last year.

If Apple could create a color even darker and richer than Space Black – the blackest black ever seen in the history of black – I would lose my mind too.

There is now a “Space Black” iPad: is this a sign?

Fortunately, it looks like Space Black won’t be limited to the MacBook Pro M3 Pro. Apple revealed the new iPad Pro and I gasped when I heard that it was available in Space Black, starting at $999 for the 11-inch model and $1,299 for the 13-inch model.

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This is a more accessible entry into Space Black. And naturally, the iPad Air, priced at $599, was left out of the Space Black fun. You can only choose between Space Grey, Blue, Purple and Starlight. The blue and purple look good, but they’re too muted for my taste. I prefer rich, vibrant shades.

Unfortunately, the Space Black iPad does not come with the same fingerprint-resistant seal found on the MacBook Pro Space Black M3 Pro.

I want my iPhone 16 in dark mode, please

The latest iPhone I Really I loved the Pacific Blue, which was on my iPhone 12 Pro. It was so stunning that I risked a cracked screen to be without a case.

Pacific Blue in all its glory
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Sure, the iPhone 15 Pro models, featuring a new titanium chassis, are available in “Titanium Black,” but that’s not the same thing. The Titanium Black doesn’t have the richness and vibrancy I look for in a pure onyx chassis.

So here’s my plea to Apple: I want the iPhone 16 to look like it’s been dipped in jet black ink, like you’d find it on Batman’s desk in his Batcave or on the dresser in his room at Wayne Manor. I want a dark mode iPhone 16 – an iPhone 16 Space Black, to be precise.

I want to walk around with a badass iPhone 16 Pro Max with an inky black tint — and bonus points if it has some sort of smudge-proof technology. (Though it’s worth noting that the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which I had the pleasure of testing, had no fingerprint issues, thanks to the brushed metal.)

Apple, of course, will do what Apple wants, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my prayers are answered – and the Space Black iPhone 16 Pro models will be revealed in September later this year. (If it’s not iPhone 16, I’ll wait for iPhone 17.)

Finally, I would die and go to heaven if a blackest black finish came to the AirPods Pro and Apple Pencil Pro. Hell, let’s get an inky black colorway for every Apple product that fits my cold, black heart.