iPhone timetable: Analyst names dates for the coming years
The usually well-informed Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo has shared his insights into Apple's future iPhone vintages. The company has big plans.
Apple logo as a rising sun: a lot to come for the iPhone in the next few years.
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Following recent reports about Apple's iPhone plans for the coming years, a well-known market observer has now come forward with his own roadmap. Ming-Chi Kuo from the Taiwanese investment firm TF International Securities, who is well connected in Apple's supply chain, believes in one model more than other rumor mongers, and he also sees second versions of as yet unavailable series coming to users.
The big iPhone timeline
Kuo has published Apple's iPhone timeline for the years 2025 to 2027 on his website. However, it remains unclear how stable this timeline is. Like many other experts, Kuo – – expects four 17-series models for 2025 in the fall: iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and the particularly thin 17 Air, which he refers to as the "17 Slim". Apple allegedly wants to launch a 17e in the first half of 2026, a direct successor to the 16e from this February – a recent report by IT news service The Information had denied this.
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In the fall of 2026, Kuo no longer sees a standard iPhone, but for the first time a first iPhone Foldable (probably 8 inches unfolded, otherwise 5.7 inches), 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max plus an iPhone 18 Slim as a second, particularly flat iPhone. The iPhone 18 (as a slimmed-down version of the Pros) and an iPhone 18e (entry-level model) are then planned for the first half of 2027. For fall 2027, the analyst expects a second iPhone Foldable, iPhone 19 Pro and 19 Pro Max plus iPhone 19 Slim (with a larger display than the 18 Slim).
Two iPhones a year is better for Apple
Kuo also writes that Apple has various advantages with the new release strategy with two dates in the year –, i.e. spring and fall –. These include an adjustment to the release cycles of competitors, who often present in the first half of the year, plus the ability to offer more models in order to conquer new markets – or retain existing ones.
Releasing all devices in the second half of the year could also make marketing more difficult, as there would then be too much choice for the Christmas business. More sales of the Pro model, for example, would mean that the number of standard models sold would fall. In addition, an equalization could help Apple to better manage production changeovers, which will be unavoidable due to the tariffs imposed by the US government.
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