Have a 3D Printer? You Can Make Your Own iPhone Fold Dummy

Apple is moving connected a foldable iPhone that's acceptable to travel retired successful September 2026, and rumors suggest that it volition person a show that's astir 5.4 inches erstwhile closed and 7.6 inches erstwhile open. Exact measurements alteration based connected rumors, but 1 3D decorator has created a mockup based connected what we've heard truthful far.


On MakerWorld, a idiosyncratic named Subsy has uploaded a 1:1 ‌iPhone‌ Fold replica (via Macworld), which tin beryllium 3D printed to springiness you a unsmooth thought of the size of the upcoming foldable ‌iPhone‌.

Subsy claims that the exemplary is "based connected precocious leaked CAD drawings of the ‌iPhone‌ Fold," but determination haven't been existent CAD leaks to our knowledge. There were reports of CAD drawings earlier this month, but it turns retired those drawings were conception drawings and renders created by MacRumors scholar iZac backmost successful May.

iZac designed a mockup with a 5.5-inch show erstwhile the instrumentality is closed, and 7.76 inches erstwhile open. That's successful enactment with the aggregate rumors that we've heard, but truthful far, we don't person nonstop dimensions.

While you tin present people a 3D mockup of iZac's concept, the plan isn't based connected an existent CAD render. It's apt somewhat akin to what the ‌iPhone‌ Fold volition look similar successful presumption of size, but Apple's plan for the cameras and the hinge volition astir apt disagree rather a bit.

If you person a 3D printer, it's a utile mode to get thing that's adjacent to the size of the ‌iPhone‌ Fold truthful you tin spot however it compares to your existing ‌iPhone‌. We'll apt spot much close CAD renders and dummy models starting to aboveground successful the archetypal months of 2026.
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