Update: New reports indicate that the iPhone SE 3 will be released in early 2022.

The iPhone SE Plus will apparently arrive next year, but not in the form expected by its name.

According to Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) (who boasts 100% accuracy on AppleTrack), next year's iPhone SE 3 will retain the same 4.7-inch display as the current iPhone SE, but but will be branded as the iPhone SE Plus.

Young's previous prediction of 2023 for a larger 5.8-inch to 6.1-inch display is even further off, he added. If you want a larger screen iPhone but don't want to pay a premium for an iPhone 13 or even an iPhone 13 Pro Max, you're looking at 2024. Nevertheless, rumors persist that a Max size will be available for the regular iPhone 14.

What is troubling if this rumor is true is that the term "Plus" has typically been used by Apple to indicate a larger iPhone, starting with the iPhone 6 in 2014 and continuing with the iPhone 8 in 2017, Apple has been using the "Plus" designation for larger versions of handsets have been manufactured. After that, Apple continued to manufacture large-screen phones, but adopted the term "Max" to differentiate them from the iPhone XS.

So it appears that Apple is trying to repurpose the word "Plus" to mean "advanced" just four years after it stopped using it to mean "big."

In the case of the 2022 iPhone SE, this is probably because it will support 5G speeds for the first time and will be the first to support 5G speeds and will be the first to support 5G speeds in terms of connectivity probably because it will catch up to the iPhone 12.

While Young has been proven right in the past, of course this is still a rumor and will not be confirmed until Tim Cook takes the stage next year. But if Apple adopts the term "Plus" to mean advanced rather than large, it will come just as Samsung is reportedly moving away from the term "Plus" in its own smartphones.

Next year's Samsung Galaxy S22 device will apparently be available in three versions: regular, Pro, and Ultra, and "Plus" will be discontinued.