Latest iPhone 18 Pro Leak Corroborated by Respected Former Analyst

Respected seasoned show expert Ross Young has added his enactment to a caller leak contiguous astir the iPhone 18 Pro's front-panel design.


In a caller post connected X (Twitter), the now-retired Counterpoint Research VP said that Chinese leaker Instant Digital's latest mentation of however Apple volition shrink the Dynamic Island is what helium was alluding to successful a study past year.

Back successful June 2025, Young said that portion immoderate parts of Apple's Face ID strategy would determination nether the show connected iPhone 18 Pro models, the devices would clasp disposable Face ID elements – meaning the Dynamic Island would persist, albeit successful a smaller signifier than connected the iPhone 14 Pro done iPhone 17 Pro.

That's efficaciously what Instant Digital claimed earlier today: the leaker explained that lone the IR flood illuminator would determination nether the show to the top-left corner, portion the dot projector, infrared camera, and selfie camera would stay housed successful a reduced, centered Dynamic Island. Another Chinese leaker has since backed the claim, which besides corresponds to reporting past twelvemonth by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Young's corroboration straight contradicts a caller study by The Information's Wayne Ma that said Apple would determination the selfie camera to the top-left country of the iPhone 18 Pro's display, resulting successful a hole-punch cutout and the removal of the pill-shaped Dynamic Island.

It seems progressively apt that details from Ma's sources were either mislaid successful translation oregon misinterpreted, perchance owed to partial cognition of an under-display Face ID component.

Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro models successful September.
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