Apple's 2026 and 2027 Product Roadmap: Foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, M5 Macs, and More

There has been a whirlwind of rumors implicit the past fewer days, sourced from leaked interior bundle designed for the iPhone and the Mac, and quality sites similar The Information. Below, we person a speedy recap of everything we've heard this week, which serves arsenic a usher to Apple's merchandise plans successful 2026 and beyond.


We've organized the info by apt merchandise date, though determination are immoderate products that we don't person a timeline for. Keep successful caput that the database features lone rumors that we've heard implicit the past mates of days, truthful it's not a implicit diagnostic overview for each device.

Early/Spring 2026

• iPhone 17e (V159) - The ‌iPhone‌ 17e volition usage Apple's C1X modem alternatively of the C1, and it volition include MagSafe support, which was missing from the iPhone 16e. It may not include an N1 wireless chip.


• AirTag 2 (B589) - Likely coming successful aboriginal 2026. Expected to feature improved pairing, much elaborate artillery level reporting, and improvements to tracking AirTags that are moving and successful crowded places.


• Home hub (J490 and J491) - Apple's location hub is expected to motorboat successful outpouring 2026, astir erstwhile iOS 26.4 comes out. Recent rumors suggest it volition person a 1080p video camera, Face ID for authentication and to place antithetic people, illustration switching, and enactment for Apple Intelligence. There are 2 models, 1 that's partition mounted and different that has a HomePod-like talker base.


• HomePod mini 2 (B525) - A caller HomePod mini is acceptable to motorboat astatine immoderate time, truthful it could travel successful outpouring oregon adjacent earlier successful the year. It won't person Apple's N1 networking chip.


• Apple TV (J355) - A caller Apple TV is reportedly acceptable to go, and it makes the astir consciousness for it to motorboat alongside different location products slated for the aboriginal 2026 timeframe.


• Unknown location accessory (J229) - We don't cognize what this is, but it could beryllium a camera, oregon standalone talker basal that tin beryllium added to the wall-mounted location hub aft purchase. It could besides beryllium thing other entirely. There are mentions of sensors successful the codification for this accessory.


• iPad 12 (J581 and J582) - The latest accusation suggests the iPad 12 volition usage Apple's A19 chip, which is the aforesaid spot that's successful the iPhone 17. It's an antithetic prime due to the fact that iPads usually get older, much affordable chips. It isn't expected to see the N1 networking chip. It's expected aboriginal successful 2026.


• M4 iPad Air (J707, J708, J737, J738) - 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models with M4 chips are rumored to beryllium launching successful aboriginal 2026. No large changes are expected but for the spot update.


• Low-Cost MacBook (J700) - Apple is moving connected a MacBook with the A18 Pro chip, and it's expected to motorboat aboriginal successful 2026. It volition beryllium positioned arsenic Apple's astir affordable MacBook, competing with Chromebooks and cheaper Windows laptops.


• M5 MacBook Air (J813 and J815) - The MacBook Air is going to get updated with M5 chips arsenic soon arsenic aboriginal 2026. No different large changes are rumored.


• M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro (J714c, J714s, J716c, J716s) - M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models are coming soon. They mightiness get a refresh aboriginal successful 2026, due to the fact that determination are inactive rumors of another ‌MacBook Pro‌ refresh aboriginal successful the year.

September 2026

• Foldable iPhone (V68) - The foldable ‌iPhone‌ volition unfastened publication style, and volition beryllium wider than it is tall. It volition look similar a tiny iPad. When open, the show will beryllium astir 7.7 inches, and erstwhile closed, it volition beryllium astir 5.3 inches. There volition beryllium a azygous front-facing camera successful the apical left, and nary Dynamic Island. Display sizes could yet change, and Apple is reportedly seeing a precocious nonaccomplishment complaint successful existent show production.


• iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max (V63 and V64) - The TrueDepth camera strategy for ‌Face ID‌ volition beryllium under the display, eliminating the ‌Dynamic Island‌. There volition beryllium a cutout for the front-facing camera astatine the apical near of the display. At slightest 1 rear camera volition person a adaptable aperture that lets users power the magnitude of airy that enters the lens. Overall plan volition beryllium akin to the iPhone 17 Pro models. The A20 TSMC spot volition enactment Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module packaging for velocity improvements that could bolster AI features and on-device processing capabilities. The iPhone 18 Pro models could person either a C1X modem oregon a C2 modem.


• iPad mini 8 (J510 and J511) - The iPad mini 8 could get OLED show exertion and the A20 Pro chip, which is the aforesaid spot that's slated for the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models. That would suggest a autumn motorboat alongside the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro. There person besides been rumors that it volition usage the A19 Pro that's successful the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌, and if that's the case, it could travel earlier.


• Apple Watch Series 12 (N237 and N238) - The Apple Watch Series 12 is expected successful September 2026. No large changes are rumored truthful far.

Unknown Timing, But Likely 2026

• Apple Studio Display 2 (J427 and J527) - There are 2 Apple displays successful the works, that are expected to beryllium followups to the Studio Display. These are apt to motorboat alongside caller M5 Mac desktop machines. The 2 models could beryllium antithetic sizes oregon antithetic show technology, arsenic determination are mini-LED rumors for the next-gen model.


• M5/M5 Pro Mac mini (J873g and J873s) - The Mac mini is going to get M5 and M5 Pro chips, but timing is unclear. It could beryllium refreshed aboriginal successful 2026, oregon it mightiness travel aboriginal alongside different desktop Mac updates.


• M5 Max/Ultra Mac Studio (J775c and J775d) - The Mac Studio volition usage the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, and it volition apt beryllium refreshed aboriginal successful 2026 alternatively than earlier.


• iMac Pro (J833c) - Apple is moving connected a high-end iMac with an M5 Max chip, which suggests it volition motorboat alongside different M5 Max models sometime successful 2026. Prior rumors person suggested the instrumentality could person a show astir 30 inches successful size.


• M6 MacBook Pro (J804) - The entry-level ‌MacBook Pro‌ could beryllium updated with an M6 spot toward the extremity of 2026.


• M6 Pro/Max MacBook Pro (K114c, K114s, K116c, K116s) - The M6 Pro and M6 Max ‌MacBook Pro‌ models volition diagnostic a large redesign with OLED show technology. So far, rumors suggest this could hap arsenic soon arsenic precocious 2026, though that would mean 2 ‌MacBook Pro‌ refreshes successful 2026. It's not unheard of, but Apple mightiness besides opt to clasp this update until aboriginal 2027.


• Apple Watch Ultra 4 (N240) - Apple is moving connected a fourth-generation mentation of the Apple Watch Ultra. It could travel successful September 2026 alongside the Series 12, but Apple doesn't update the Apple Watch Ultra connected an yearly basis.

2027

• iPhone 18 - The ‌iPhone 18‌ volition not motorboat successful autumn 2026 arsenic expected, and volition alternatively travel successful outpouring 2027. It volition beryllium an incremental update, and Apple may region haptic feedback and interaction sensing from the Camera Control fastener (it could besides beryllium removed from the 18 Pro models).


• iPhone 18e - Also slated for outpouring 2027, the ‌iPhone‌ 18e could motorboat alongside the ‌iPhone 18‌. It is expected to diagnostic fewer changes.


• iPhone Air 2 (V62) - There is nary second-generation iPhone Air planned for autumn 2026 due to the fact that Apple has delayed it. It could alternatively travel successful outpouring 2027. Apple is reportedly looking astatine adding a 2nd camera to marque the instrumentality much appealing to consumers. The adjacent ‌iPhone Air‌ mightiness besides be much affordable.


• 20th Anniversary iPhone - The 2027 ‌iPhone‌ volition person an "enclosure connected the beforehand and backmost that curves astir the device edges," which allows for a bigger surface with nary bezels. The Information says that it is not definite if the show itself volition curve astir the edges, but alternatively of a afloat metallic frame, it has a "narrow metallic set moving astir the midpoint of the device's edge. The selfie camera volition determination nether the display, and it volition beryllium the archetypal ‌iPhone‌ with nary show cutouts astatine all. The 20th day ‌iPhone‌ volition motorboat successful September 2027.


• Tabletop robot (J595) - Apple's tabletop robot with a bladed robotic limb and swivel basal is expected to beryllium a much almighty mentation of the location hub. It's rumored to beryllium launching sometime successful 2027.


• AI astute glasses (N50/N401) - Apple paused enactment connected each of its AR/VR headsets to absorption alternatively connected AI astute glasses that volition vie with the Meta Ray-Bans. The AI astute glasses are expected successful 2027, but it's imaginable Apple volition unveil them successful precocious 2026. N50 was the archetypal codename, but Apple is present utilizing N401. N401 covers the AI astute glasses, and a abstracted acceptable of augmented world glasses.

Delayed oregon Canceled

• Foldable iPad - Apple planned a foldable ‌iPad‌ for merchandise successful 2026, but delayed the task and redirected resources to the foldable ‌iPhone‌ to guarantee that instrumentality launches connected time.


• Vision Air (N100) - The N100 is simply a lighter and cheaper mentation of the Vision Pro. It was primitively rumored for 2027, but Apple has paused enactment connected headsets to absorption connected AI astute glasses.


• AR glasses prototype (N421) - N421 is simply a prototype acceptable of AR glasses, but Apple seemingly canceled enactment connected this merchandise for now. AR glasses are inactive Apple's eventual plan.


• Mac-connected AR glasses (N107) - Apple was moving connected AR glasses that would link to a Mac to usage the Mac's processor, but the task was scrapped.


• Cheaper Vision Pro (N109) - Apple was processing a second-generation Vision Pro that's much affordable, and it was a merchandise chiseled from the Vision Air. Work is currently paused.

Unknown Products

There are immoderate codenames that were successful Apple's leaked accusation that aren't associated with a known merchandise arsenic of yet.

• N110 - N110 is adjacent to N109 and different N-series numbers Apple has utilized for its AR/VR headsets, truthful this could beryllium a wearable.


• N209 - N2 numbers person antecedently been associated with the Apple Watch.


• N216 - N2 numbers person antecedently been associated with the Apple Watch.


• J349 - Possibly a Mac that was scrapped, but could besides beryllium an ‌Apple TV‌ oregon immoderate benignant of location device.


• J190 - The Mac Pro is J180, truthful this could beryllium different ‌Mac Pro‌, but it's unclear.


• J226 - J226 is adjacent to J229, the codename for an chartless location device, truthful it could beryllium immoderate benignant of home-related accessory.

Codename Key

For Apple's interior codenames that it uses for Macs, the missive astatine the extremity of the fig has significance.

• G - Base exemplary M-series chip


• S - Pro mentation of the M-series chip


• C - Max mentation of the M-series chip


• D - Ultra mentation of the M-series chip

Caveats

Some of this accusation was pulled from an interior mentation of iOS 26 that Apple was moving connected astir the precocious May 2025 timeline, portion different accusation comes from interior kernel debug kit files that Apple accidentally leaked earlier this year.

Apple's plans tin ever change. Devices tin beryllium scrapped, features tin beryllium removed, and launches tin beryllium pushed back. That's particularly existent of rumors astir products coming successful precocious 2026 oregon 2027, due to the fact that accumulation plans haven't been finalized.

Read More

We support an upcoming products Apple guide that gets regular updates erstwhile caller timeline accusation is made available. It's a bully assets to bookmark and notation passim the twelvemonth to support tabs connected what Apple has planned. We person adjacent much rumors astir Apple's products successful our instrumentality roundups and guides, which are besides updated regularly.
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