{"id":378975,"date":"2026-04-07T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:34:09","slug":"apples-foldable-iphone-faces-engineering-snags-potential-shipment-delays-nikkei-asia-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378975\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s foldable iPhone faces engineering snags, potential shipment delays, Nikkei Asia reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/AAPL\" data-ylk=\"slk:AAPL;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AAPL&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AAPL<\/a>) has been encountering setbacks in the engineering test \u200cphase of its first foldable iPhone, \u200cwhich could lead to delays in its mass \u200bproduction and product shipment schedule, Nikkei Asia reported on Monday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Here are some details:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">* Engineering development issues could delay the \u200cfirstshipments of \u2060the foldable iPhones by months in a worst-casescenario, according to the \u2060Nikkei report. * &#8220;It&#8217;s true that more issues than expected have emergedduring the early test \u200bproduction phase, \u200band additional time \u200bwillbe needed to resolve \u200cthem and make necessary adjustments,&#8221; thereport said, quoting one source familiar with the matter. * Reuters could not verify the report. Apple did notimmediately respond to Reuters&#8217; \u200crequest for a comment outsideregular \u200bbusiness hours in the \u200bUnited States. * \u200bNikkei had reported in January \u200cthat Apple would focus \u200bondelivering its \u200bfirst foldable iPhone and two non-folding modelswith upgraded cameras and larger displays for \u200ba \u200cflagship launchin the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Apple (AAPL) has been encountering setbacks in the engineering test \u200cphase of its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[670,181470,85,46,321,181469,181471,181472,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-378975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-engineering-test-phase","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-nikkei-asia","14":"tag-nikkei-report","15":"tag-production-phase","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}