{"id":8399,"date":"2025-07-19T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/8399\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:36:22","slug":"the-folding-iphone-is-getting-real-and-might-use-samsung-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/8399\/","title":{"rendered":"The Folding iPhone Is Getting Real (and Might Use Samsung Parts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may be the final year without a folding iPhone. New reports this week suggest that Apple will launch the\u00a0long-rumored folding iPhone<\/a>\u00a0in 2026. The latest buzz suggests that\u00a0Apple is<\/a>\u00a0working with Samsung Display<\/a> to help make the crease-free screen for the folding iPhone.<\/p>\n

It’s no secret that Apple has been tinkering with bendable screen designs for years. The company has filed various patents about screens\u00a0that fold,<\/a>\u00a0scroll<\/a>\u00a0and even\u00a0self-heal from scratches<\/a>. Last year,\u00a0Bloomberg reported that Apple was exploring a folding iPad<\/a>, and analysts have been\u00a0predicting Apple would make a\u00a0<\/a>folding iPhone since 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the rumors are looking more likely now as the buzz picks up, this time from a Korean news outlet<\/a> and a forecast from an often-accurate Apple analyst<\/a>, both pointing to Samsung Display as the company working with Apple to produce the screen tech for the folding iPhone.<\/p>\n

For this week’s episode of One More Thing, which you can watch embedded above, I go through some of the latest rumors to paint a picture of what this fabled phone could look like — and don’t expect it to come cheap. It is predicted to cost between $2,000 and $2,500.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of the work to make the folding iPhone may be coming from another new design: the rumored ultra-thin iPhone 17<\/a> and its thin battery is the kind of tech that helps make a thin book-style folding iPhone a reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for more\u00a0One More Thing<\/a>, subscribe to our YouTube page to catch Bridget Carey breaking down the latest Apple news and issues every Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This may be the final year without a folding iPhone. New reports this week suggest that Apple will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}