{"id":587280,"date":"2026-04-07T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587280\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:15:08","slug":"apples-foldable-iphone-encounters-engineering-snags-faces-potential-shipment-delays-nikkei-asia-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587280\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s foldable iPhone encounters engineering snags, faces potential shipment delays, Nikkei Asia reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Apple has been encountering setbacks \u200cin the engineering test \u200cphase of its first foldable \u200biPhone, which could lead to delays in its mass production and product \u200cshipment schedule, \u2060Nikkei Asia reported on Monday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Reuters \u2060could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Issues surrounding \u200bthe engineering \u200bdevelopment \u200bof foldable iPhones \u200care more complex and are taking longer to resolve than expected, the report said, with suppliers \u200cnotified that there \u200bis a \u200bpossibility \u200bthe component production schedule \u200ccould be pushed \u200bback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Apple \u200bdid not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; request for \u200ba \u200ccomment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Anusha Shah \u200bin Bengaluru; Editing by \u200bSherry Jacob-Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Apple has been encountering setbacks \u200cin the engineering test \u200cphase of its first foldable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,49,48,71191,224062,224063,224064,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-587280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-citing-sources","12":"tag-engineering-test-phase","13":"tag-nikkei-asia","14":"tag-product-shipment-schedule","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}