Apple suffers major 'iPhone X' leak ahead of release: Here’s all you need to know

Apple’s new iPhone 8 may not be anything like what you’ve imagined so far if the new series of leaks from its upcoming iOS 11’s software code unearthed by tech experts are to go by.

Apple, which is all set to launch three new iPhones on Tuesday, September 12 at its event in California has seen dizzying waves of speculations throughout the internet. Most of these rumours predicted the launch and the features despite the tech giant's best efforts to keep things under the cover.

New leaks suggest that the upcoming iPhone will be called the iPhone X and Wall Street analysts predict that it will drive the sales of the tech giant and also propel it to become the first trillion dollar strong publicly traded company.

Tech website 9 to 5 Mac has got its hands on the new iOS 11 GM software code better known as - the final build before the system is released to the public.

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith had spotted references in the iOS 11 code that the next handheld gadget coming out of Cupertino would be the iPhone X. 

iPhone 8 iPhone 8 Plus iPhone X pic.twitter.com/OVLfhLxTdT

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) September 9, 2017

Multiple reports are speculating that the usage of 'X' in the name could be a presumable reference to 2017 being the tenth anniversary year for the handset.

Further, the fact that Apple shifted away from the Mac OSX branding with Mac OS Sierra shows that there won’t be any confusion with the desktop in case there is an iPhone X.

There are also rumours that the iPhone X is touted to be a special model like the iPhone SE (locally made) and the iPhone 5C.

The iOS GM 11 also suggests that the look of the new iPhone to be unveiled tomorrow will be radically different from any of the previous ones.