We might have our first good look at the shape of the oddly wide iPhone Fold, after leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson shared photos of what he says is a dummy unit of the foldable, alongside similar models of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max. The apparent design leak comes as it\u2019s reported that early engineering tests of the foldable have suffered from production problems which may cause it to ship months later than other iPhones this year.<\/p>\n
Dickson, who has a good track record for sourcing accurate dummy models of Apple and Samsung phones used by case makers to test and design their products, shared images<\/a> of the foldable unit on Bluesky this morning. It shows the phone from both sides, though the inside of the dummy reveals little about the likely design, not even the possible layout of a selfie camera or Face ID sensors. The outside is more informative, showing two rear cameras side-by-side in a raised pill-shaped island that stretches about two thirds of the way across the phone\u2019s unusually wide body.<\/p>\n Dickson doesn\u2019t provide exact measurements for the dummy unit, though it looks squatter and wider than any book-style foldable we\u2019ve seen so far. It\u2019s closest in style to Google\u2019s first-gen Pixel Fold<\/a>, though appears wider still than that phone. That choice might seem odd, but Samsung is also rumored to be working on a \u201cWide Fold\u201d variant of its foldable<\/a> to launch later this year, suggesting this form factor may have legs.<\/p>\n The question might be which company gets there first. Apple has been widely expected<\/a> to launch the first foldable iPhone alongside the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max at its usual iPhone launch event in September, with the base iPhone 18 to follow in 2027, but that schedule may be in doubt. Nikkei Asia reports<\/a> that early production runs have encountered \u201cengineering challenges\u201d that are taking longer to resolve than expected, which \u201ccould delay the first shipment by months.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cApple and the supply chain are working under a pressured timeline and the current solutions are not enough to completely solve the engineering challenges,\u201d one source told Nikkei. \u201cMore time is needed.\u201d The reported delay echoes a recent prediction by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman<\/a> that the foldable will ship some time after the two Pro iPhones, even if it\u2019s revealed alongside them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We might have our first good look at the shape of the oddly wide iPhone Fold, after leaker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[517,6563,166,4536,165,3,12074,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-569858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-foldable-phones","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-iphone","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phones","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}