iPhone 18 Pro Max's Thicker Design Could Make It Heaviest iPhone Ever

Hardware changes Apple has planned for the iPhone 18 Pro Max volition marque it the heaviest iPhone yet, claims a Chinese leaker.


Apple isn't expected to change the size of the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and it volition diagnostic the aforesaid 6.9-inch show size arsenic the existent model. However, according to Weibo-based relationship Instant Digital, the assemblage of the iPhone 18 Pro Max volition beryllium somewhat thicker than the iPhone 17 Pro Max, tipping its value implicit 240 grams.

In a follow-up post connected Weibo, Instant Digital says the quality betwixt the 2 generations volition beryllium astir 10 grams, truthful it sounds similar we're looking astatine astir 243 grams. That would marque adjacent year's iPhone 18 Pro Max astir 3 grams much than the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which is presently the heaviest exemplary Apple has produced.

Apple's usage of titanium alternatively of stainless alloy made the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro models lighter. Apple past switched distant from titanium to less-dense aluminum for the iPhone 17 Pro models, but interior changes and somewhat thicker designs bumped up their value again. The iPhone 17 Pro Max weighs 233 grams, up from 227 grams.

Pro Max exemplary weights:

• iPhone XS Max: 208 grams


• iPhone 11 Pro Max: 226 grams


• iPhone 12 Pro Max: 228 grams


• iPhone 13 Pro Max: 238 grams


• iPhone 14 Pro Max: 240 grams


• iPhone 15 Pro Max: 221 grams


• iPhone 16 Pro Max: 227 grams


• iPhone 17 Pro Max: 233 grams


• iPhone 18 Pro Max: ~243 grams?

In a swipe astatine the iPhone Air's reported mediocre sales, the leaker claims Apple has "figured out" that making iPhones thinner and lighter doesn't needfully marque them much charismatic to consumers if that means compromising connected features and artillery life.

The leaker doesn't springiness a circumstantial crushed for the alleged thicker plan of the iPhone 18 Pro Max, but a larger artillery is the astir apt cause. Apple is besides said to beryllium adopting a caller benignant of vapor enclosure that uses stainless steel.

In addition, determination are camera upgrades rumored – a Main camera with a variable aperture and a caller three-layer stacked representation sensor developed by Samsung – and perchance changes coming to the Dynamic Island and Face ID. Whether the value summation is owed to the cumulative effect of aggregate changes oregon a azygous hardware upgrade remains unclear.

Instant Digital has a mixed but occasionally reliable way record. The relationship antecedently revealed close details specified arsenic the Yellow iPhone 14 and 14 Plus finishes and the Titanium Milanese Loop for the Apple Watch Ultra 2, though not each of its past claims person proven correct.

The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are expected to motorboat successful the autumn of 2026.
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