Apple's 18.8-Inch Foldable Device to Enter Mass Production in Late 2026

Along with an iPhone "Fold," Apple is believed to beryllium moving connected a larger foldable instrumentality that's determination astir 19 inches, and 1 expert suggests it could get arsenic soon arsenic precocious adjacent twelvemonth alongside Apple's rumored foldable iPhone.


In a caller probe enactment covering apt post-tariff scenarios for Apple, concern steadfast GF Securities' pb expert Jeff Pu says that some 18.8-inch and 7.8-inch foldable devices person seen improvement advancement and are forecast to participate wide accumulation successful the 4th fourth of 2026.

Pu said arsenic overmuch last month, erstwhile helium claimed that Apple's archetypal 2 foldable devices had precocious entered the New Product Introduction (NPI) signifier astatine Foxconn. Depending connected precisely erstwhile wide accumulation begins successful the 2nd fractional of 2026, the devices could motorboat either aboriginal adjacent year, oregon astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes that Apple is moving connected a foldable ‌iPad‌ with a 20-inch show that volition travel retired successful 2028, portion expert Ross Young has said that helium expects a foldable tablet-like instrumentality successful 2026 oregon 2027, truthful it's harmless to accidental there's uncertainty astir a motorboat date. There besides look to beryllium conflicting reports astir what benignant of instrumentality the larger foldable volition be.

Pu believes the foldable instrumentality that Apple is moving connected volition beryllium a MacBook-iPad hybrid with a touch-based surface and enactment for macOS. Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo has besides referred to Apple's larger foldable instrumentality arsenic a MacBook, portion Ross Young has besides written astir Apple's work connected a notebook with an 18.8-inch display. The Wall Street Journal said successful December that Apple is moving connected a 19-inch MacBook with a foldable screen.

However, Gurman has referred to Apple's large-screened foldable instrumentality arsenic an ‌iPad‌, arsenic has probe steadfast Omdia. Whether the large-screened foldable is yet an ‌iPad‌ oregon a Mac volition travel down to the operating strategy that Apple is readying to use. If the instrumentality runs macOS, it'll beryllium successful the Mac family, and if it runs iPadOS, it'll beryllium successful the ‌iPad‌ family. Gurman has claimed that immoderate of the plan updates that Apple is making successful iOS 19 and macOS 16 to unify the operating systems volition pave the mode for foldable devices and touchscreen Macs, truthful a hybrid is besides a possibility.

• Foldable iPhone Expected Next Year: All the Rumored Features So Far

All successful all, the details of Apple's larger foldable instrumentality stay murky. That's successful opposition to rumors astir Apple's smaller book-style foldable iPhone, which person precocious been converging connected a 2026 release.
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