Apple Skipping iPhone 18 Launch This Year

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Apple supplier Pegatron contiguous indirectly confirmed that the modular iPhone 18 exemplary volition not beryllium released until adjacent year, according to a caller report.

Pegatron held an net telephone for the 2nd 4th of 2026 today. On the call, Taiwan's Economic Daily News said Pegatron indicated that 1 of its customers volition beryllium changing its accustomed smartphone shipment schedule. As wide expected, the study said Apple plans to merchandise the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and a foldable "iPhone Ultra" this September, followed by the modular iPhone 18 exemplary successful the archetypal 4th of 2027.

The modular iPhone 11 done to the iPhone 17 each launched alongside Pro and Pro Max models successful September implicit the years, truthful the motorboat of the basal exemplary iPhone 18 being postponed until astir March 2027 would beryllium a notable change.

Apple's plans to divided up the motorboat of the iPhone 18 bid has already been wide rumored by sources specified arsenic Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo, former The Information newsman Wayne Ma, and others implicit the past year. Apple supplier Largan Precision besides hinted astatine the alteration successful a likewise indirect mode earlier this year.

A lower-end iPhone 18e and an iPhone Air 2 are also expected to beryllium released astir March 2027.

In total, six caller iPhone models are slated to motorboat by the extremity of March: