leakage of the folding iPhone Apple supplies in frequency, and this can only be in a year. This is what the Mill of Rumors believe in work.
While 2025 could see the release of a super-thin Air iPhone 17 or iPhone 17 Slim, a year after it can be even more interesting. Numerous sources and reports for these years said that Apple is working on products with folding displays, the first of which is expected to become a completely new iPhone model.
Although other smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung, opened the concept of folding displays, and Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, Apple has not yet released such a device.
Nevertheless, rumors show that the folding iPhone, sometimes called the iPhone, is on the horizon. People familiar with this issue said Appleinsider that Apple and his partners in the supply chain have been studying this idea for many years.
Leaders and analysts believe that the folding iPhone Apple will debut over the next few years, and they have quite a lot to say about this.
In the messages from February and March 2024 it was assumed that Apple originally planned the release of 2026, but that the project was postponed until 2027. Rumors since June 2024 repeated the 2027 launch date for the iPhone Fold. The report on February 2025 indicated that production could begin at the beginning of 2026, which, again, will agree with the proposed issue of 2027.
Not everyone agrees, however, like another report from the same month, which states that the folding iPhone Apple will debut in 2026, and not in 2027. The report states that Apple will begin production at the end of 2025, with the planned release in the second half of 2026. Kuo broke out in March 2025, saying that the folding iPhone Apple will debut at the end of 2026 or early 2027, and mass production will begin in the fourth quarter of 2026.
it is assumed that the Apple will be delivered from three million to five million units of the iPhone fold in 2026, and the volume of production is limited by the complexity of the device. Kuo predicts that between the first and listening second -generation iPhone Apple can sell 20 million in 2027. The release date 2026 for folding iPhone Apple, with the last report indicating that the device will debut in September 2026.
Supplier of the IPhone Display
Compared to iPhone currently available, a folding Apple smartphone offers more a screen for applications and games. With a detailed display, the device can be similar to the iPad mini in terms of screen size. This will be the main point of sale of the IPhone bend, but Apple probably had to overcome engineering tasks in order to achieve a folding display that meets the high standards of the company.
samsung is probably an exclusive supplier of displays for the iPhone fold.
In September 2022, it was assumed that Apple has been working with LG Display and Samsung, trying to develop displays that would not collapse. This supposedly included the creation of hybrid OLED panels that combine inflexible areas of glass with flexible plastic substrates for bending details.
Apple, reportedly, still decided the display supplier as of January 2025. Only a month later, but one leader suggested that the IPhone fold display will be developed exclusively by Samsung, which contradicts the preliminary LG display, some of which are dated to 2017. Most likely, there is an advantage thanks to your experience with your own folding products. In the messages from April 2025 and May 2025, both stated that Apple chose Samsung as her own display partner.
This information is aligned with the hearing of December 2023, which states that the IPhone folding displays were the focus of the new Samsung business group.
Simensions and resolution of display
, as expected, is expected to have an iPhone bend will have Two screens with a smaller external display for overall use and emerging internal, which is much larger. It seems that the Mill of Rumors agreed with some of the main specifications of these components.
folding iPhone Apple may have a familiar value of the parties 4: 3.
In February 2025, one leader said that the display for the iPhone fold can be “comparable to two 6.1-inch iPhones folded together, which leads to a total total size of more than 12 inches.” The mathematics of this alleged measurement is somewhat incorrect, as it really will be the size of the screen at the 7.5-inch stadium, which looks like an 8.3-inch iPad mini.
In the same month, another rumor said that the folding iPhone Apple will have a 5.49-inch external screen so that it can work as a regular smartphone. The internal screen, in order to make it more like the iPad, according to reports, measures a somewhat realistic diagonal of 7.74 inches.
The Ming-Chi Kuo analyst repeated these claims, saying that in March 2025 the “folded internal screen” will be 7.8 inches, while the external screen will be 5.5 inches. Two April 2025 rumors also provided similar measurements.
Both liquors suggested that the internal display would have a resolution of 2713 by 1920. This would give the display a pixel density of 428 pixels per inch. According to the same source, the external display will measure 5.49 inches and have a resolution of 2,088 by 1422. This is the density of pixels 460PPI, corresponding to the typical Apple iPhone displays.
The internal display will presumably use the hidden chamber of disadvantages that will be similar to other folding screens of the devices, while the external display will rely on the visible punch camera. As for the ratio of the parties to the display, rumors about March 2025 indicate that the iPhone Fold will use a familiar 4: 3 format, as well as older iPad models.
Durability, durability, articulated mechanisms
Durability is the main concern when it causes products with plastic display. Although there are many possible ways in which Apple can approach the folding iPhone, the company should always make sure that its screen could withstand repeating folding for long periods.
IPhone bending can have a liquid metal hinge mechanism, which is twice as strong than the titanium. Apple, like other folding telephone companies, should design the iPhone warehouse to resist this weakness.
The Apple patent in October 2021 presented the concept of folding iPhone, which puts the display from the outside, instead of the screen is inside the fold.
This is one of the ways to circumvent the problem, since the screen should not deal with the typically tough radius of the internal fold, and instead you have to deal with the constant exposure of the elements. But Apple may have a potential solution for this.
Apple patents show that the company has been examining the stacked iPhone since 2015. One such patent, since 2020, indicates that Apple can realize technologies to display the iPhone could “heal” the inevitable wear.
“Electronic devices with flexible layers of the display cover” offers to mix hard and flexible areas for the display, and then also use what Apple calls “self-healing”. This may be due to scratches resistant to the display, rumors, rumors about the iPhone 17 line, although it was reported that this was discarded.
Apple patents suggest that the company has experimented with various solutions for the iPhone fold. The idea was to be added to the display at the most vulnerable point so that users could press flexible sections without damaging the screen.
The patents of the iPhone manufacturer have also proposed the idea of using stretched displays. Nevertheless, Apple seems unlikely to currently follow this route for the iPhone fold. The report on February 2025 states that the folds are not tormented at all. The source doubled the claims that Apple worked hard to avoid wrinkles on the display, which could appear over time.
Analyst Min-Chi Kuo said in March 2025 that Apple will use a hinge with a liquid metal display iPhone. In the same month, another leader explained that the material can be twice as strong as titanium. The technology of liquid metals has also appeared in Apple patents since 2014 and 2015. Presumably, this “will achieve the goal of losing weight of the battery, improving the integrated chain of the display driver (DDI).” One of the leaders believes that the IC drivers on the folding display are updated, with the use of the 28-nanometer production process to the 16-nanometer version.
Improving the service life of the battery may be the final result of these efforts. We could also see flexible batteries in the iPhone fold as an Apple patent since 2020, refers to this technology.
when it comes to physical display size, 5.49 Threis is much smaller than on the smallest iPhone 16-inch iphone 16.