{"id":503709,"date":"2026-06-17T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503709\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:28:09","slug":"iphone-18-ram-upgrade-confirmed-again-along-with-good-news-about-its-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/503709\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 18 RAM upgrade confirmed again along with good news about its price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new rumor from Taiwan, the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/iphone_18_to_have_some_important_costcutting_downgrades_new_rumor_claims-news-72470.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18<\/a> will get 12GB of RAM. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17-14050.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17<\/a>, for comparison, only has 8GB. The added memory will be used to power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/siri_ai_is_official_for_ios_27_ipados_27_macos_27_watchos_27_and_visionos_27-news-73181.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the new Siri AI features<\/a> with the most powerful on-device model, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apples_most_advanced_ondevice_ai_features_will_only_work_on_select_devices-news-73187.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">requires a minimum of 12GB of RAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will give Siri more expressive voices (along with sliders to personalize them), and will also enable major accuracy improvements for system-wide dictation. The iPhone 17 will miss out on these features when they&#8217;re released with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/heres_whats_new_in_ios_27_and_ipados_27-news-73182.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 27<\/a> in the fall, because of the fact that it only has 8GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" alt=\"iPhone 17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781670489_49_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\niPhone 17<\/p>\n<p>Back in April another source claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/iphone_18_now_rumored_to_get_one_key_upgrade_after_all-news-72544.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the iPhone 18 would get 12GB of RAM<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_will_bump_up_the_iphone_18_to_12gb_of_lpddr5x_ram-news-70041.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first rumor on the matter<\/a> dates back to October of 2025. It&#8217;s good to have a confirmation now, since RAM prices are so high at the moment that Apple could have changed its mind.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Apple is now rumored to absorb the increased RAM prices itself, which means the iPhone 18 may actually launch at the same price as its predecessor ($799 in the US). That may ensure that Apple will have a big price advantage over its competitors making Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 18 is expected to launch in spring 2027, alongside the iPhone 18e and possibly also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/iphone_air_2_might_come_with_improved_battery_life_and_camera-news-71050.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Air 2<\/a>, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/iphone_18_pro_will_offer_two_different_battery_capacities_claims_new_rumor-news-73084.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18 Pro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_18_pro_max_5g-14716.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18 Pro Max<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_fold_5g-13804.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Ultra<\/a> will all be unveiled this September.<\/p>\n<p>Apple iPhone 17<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20260616PD219\/apple-siri-demand-dram-samsung.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a new rumor from Taiwan, the upcoming iPhone 18 will get 12GB of RAM. The iPhone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-503709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}