Confirming information about information from launch on weekends, the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo laid out his predictions for the next few years At creature today. In particular, Apple will move away from the release of all its flagship phones at the same time in the fall, a hard calendar, which has been in place since the iPhone 4s in 2011. This means that you will see the versions of the iPhone 18 and the iPhone 19, arriving in the first and last half of the same year, in 2027, respectively. Kuo says that the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Slim (or what some call the iPhone 17 Air) will appear in the second half of 2025, probably, probably in September.
In 2026, the launch plan diverges from a long norm. In the first half of 2026, probably in the spring months of March or April, Kuo says that you will see that Apple will release the iPhone 17e. (This will follow about a year after the launch of the iPhone 16E, which Apple introduced in February 2025.) This includes the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone 18 Slim and the first folding iPhone. It is noteworthy that the base model of the iPhone 18 will not be part of this group.
Instead, Kuo says that the base model of the iPhone 18 will release with the iPhone 18E in the spring of 2027, about six months after the release date of the iPhone 18 Pro. This will be marked for the first time that the base model of the iPhone generation will not be launched at the same time as higher models. This means the basic model ‘ iPhone 19 ’ and ‘ iPhone 19e ’ Again, they will follow a few months later, in 2028. Many Apple competitors in the smartphone have flagship launches in the spring.
kuo echos similar motives. He says that the main reason for Apple 8217 is to accept the release schedule in two -stage, with the launch in the first half and the second half, to respond to intensive competition, especially in China. Apple will compete directly with the launch of competitors in the first half of the year, moving large new iPhone emissions with them. Launch of each model in the same autumn window “ The risk of diluting marketing efforts ”. Distributing them, this should give basic models more time to breathe and attract consumer interest without being too overshadowed by Pro models.
