Dark Cherry and More: Every iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra Color Rumor

We're apt astir a period distant from erstwhile Apple volition motorboat caller iPhone models, and colour has been a large taxable of discussion. There's going to beryllium a melodramatic caller colour for the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, but Apple plans to play it harmless with the foldable iPhone.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

With the iPhone 17 Pro line, Apple introduced a bold caller Cosmic Orange color. This year, Cosmic Orange is being retired for a shadiness that's darker and moodier.

Dark Cherry is the colour Apple is rumored to beryllium using, and it looks similar a transverse betwixt reddish and purple.


Apple's colors ever look antithetic erstwhile lighting conditions change, which tin pb to immoderate confusion. At first, rumors described the color arsenic a heavy red.

We also heard rumors astir the anticipation of burgundy, purple, and brownish colour options, with Apple acceptable to take one.



In April, Macworld shared the nonstop Pantone colors Apple allegedly plans to use, describing the colour arsenic Dark Cherry for the archetypal time. The tract said the different 3 colors would see Silver, Dark Gray, and Light Blue. We utilized the Pantone shades to marque a mockup.

• Light Blue (Pantone 2121), resembling the existent iPhone 17's Mist Blue


• Dark Cherry (Pantone 6076), the header caller color


• Dark Gray (Pantone 426C)


• Silver (Pantone 427C), akin to the existent generation

Dummy models soon surfaced showing akin colors, though with a spot much of a pinkish code for the Dark Cherry shade.



The colour Apple goes with volition apt beryllium adjacent to the Pantone shade, with purple oregon reddish tones depending connected the lighting. It's not rather burgundy due to the fact that it trends person to purple. It's redder than a existent purple, but much violet than a acheronian reddish oregon maroon. It's much of a vino oregon a plum color, truthful if Dark Cherry is so the sanction of the color, it's a fitting one.


We've had iPhones successful Lavender, Pink, Deep Purple, (Product)RED, and Purple, but thing similar what Apple is readying for 2026.

There were lone 3 colour options for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max, but it looks similar determination volition beryllium 4 for the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models. Along with Silver and Dark Gray, there's a bluish color.


Blue is simply a shadiness Apple has utilized for iPhone models aggregate times successful the past. The rumored bluish is astir apt closest to the Sierra Blue colour Apple utilized for the iPhone 13 Pro, but it's much saturated with little reddish and greenish to code it down. Most of the blues Apple utilized successful the past person been lighter oregon overmuch darker, but this shadiness inactive won't consciousness arsenic unsocial arsenic the Dark Cherry color.

Uniform Back

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models person a two-tone plan wherever the solid connected the backmost is simply a noticeably lighter shadiness than the colour of the aluminum frame. With the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models, the colour quality betwixt the framework and the solid sheet astatine the backmost could beryllium little pronounced.

Rumors suggest Apple volition minimize the colour difference betwixt the 2 components for a much unified appearance.

iPhone Ultra

While the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max volition person 2 colors that connection options beyond the modular metallic oregon gray, Apple doesn't program to experimentation with the foldable iPhone (which mightiness beryllium called the iPhone Ultra).

The costly caller instrumentality is seemingly lone going to beryllium disposable with a limited colour palette. White has been mentioned aggregate times, which astir apt means a white/silver benignant of shade, portion rumors person been a small mixed connected the 2nd colour (if determination is one).

Macworld said successful April that Apple would usage metallic and indigo, with the second shadiness being akin to the Deep Blue colour utilized for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌. In May, Weibo leaker Instant Digital said achromatic was the only confirmed color, and successful June, dummy models leaked alongside a rumor that the foldable iPhone might lone beryllium available successful white.



Camera accessories that leaked successful August suggest the foldable iPhone volition travel successful silver/white and a acheronian bluish shadiness that's astir black. Since the foldable iPhone is going to outgo upwards of $2,000, it's not astonishing Apple didn't privation to marque it successful colors that mightiness person narrower appeal.

Color Caveats

We're moving with rumors and dummy models astatine this point. The colors that leak up of erstwhile a caller iPhone launches are typically accurate, but lighting and worldly impact however colour appears. Apple's devices often look acold amended than the dummy models and renderings.

With the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌, mockups and dummy models featuring the Cosmic Orange colour were a duller shade than we really got, positive thing rather captured the two-tone look of the solid backmost and the frame. Ahead of the iPhone 16 Pro launch, determination were rumors of a godforsaken titanium shade. The mockups and dummy models were a darker, uglier brownish than the soft, astir pink-toned golden shadiness Apple used.

It's antithetic for the colour rumors to beryllium wrong, but it happens. Last year, rumors suggested determination would beryllium a achromatic ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌, but it was a colour Apple seemingly dropped.

What About the iPhone 18?

The iPhone 18 isn't going to motorboat successful the autumn alongside the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models and the foldable iPhone. Apple's holding it until outpouring 2027, and since it's inactive months away, we haven't heard what its colour options mightiness be. With modular iPhones, Apple often debuts a scope of colors.

There are 5 ‌iPhone 17‌ colors, including black, white, and 3 pastel shades successful blue, lavender, and green. Apple tends to spell backmost and distant betwixt pastels and much saturated shades for the modular iPhone, truthful the 2027 ‌iPhone 18‌ could person brighter colors than the ones Apple utilized for the ‌iPhone 17‌ line.

The ‌iPhone 18‌ is rumored to beryllium launching alongside the iPhone 18e and iPhone Air 2, and we besides don't cognize what colors Apple volition usage for those devices.

Launch Timing

Apple is expected to present the foldable iPhone and the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models astatine an iPhone lawsuit held the week of September 9. Pre-orders could commencement astatine the extremity of that aforesaid week, with a motorboat connected September 18.
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