Apple’s first wide-folding iPhone will debut in September!
According to Fast Technology on July 24, Apple will release its first horizontally foldable flagship iPhone Ultra at its fall event this September, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro series.
Today, the blogger Digital Chat Station brought the latest appearance images. The product has already started production, and the overall design has been confirmed. It adopts a wide folding ratio and a simple horizontal dual-camera setup on the back, which is similar to the wide folding camera recently released by Samsung.
According to leaks, the iPhone Ultra will adopt a 4:3 wide-folding design, with an unfolded inner screen size of 7.76 inches and a resolution of 2713 x 1920. The visual ratio is comparable to that of the iPad mini, providing a more spacious view when browsing documents in landscape mode, working in split-screen mode, or watching movies. It is also Apple’s first mobile phone product that focuses on a tablet-level large-screen experience.
It features a 5.49-inch external screen with a resolution of 2088×1422, allowing users to perform basic operations such as communication, message reply, and taking photos without opening the phone. The external screen retains only a single punch-hole front camera, eliminating the island design and resulting in a cleaner front appearance.
The body is made of lightweight titanium alloy frame, and the stress hinge area is made of stainless steel and die-cast liquid metal structure. The weight of the whole machine is controlled within 250g, and the thickness is only 4.8mm when fully unfolded and 9.6mm when folded.
The hinge design for the iPhone Ultra is a key focus of Apple’s research and development efforts over many years. It incorporates internal metal stress-dispersing plates and a self-healing coating on the screen surface, significantly reducing screen creases caused by folding. It has also undergone hundreds of thousands of opening and closing durability tests to address the industry pain point of foldable screens becoming loose and developing noticeable creases after long-term use.
The side design of the device has been significantly redesigned, with the power button integrating Touch ID fingerprint recognition. The Face ID facial recognition module has been completely abandoned to reduce the internal space of the device and further compress the overall thickness.
In terms of hardware configuration, the iPhone Ultra is equipped with TSMC’s 2nm A20 Pro flagship chip, comes standard with 12GB of RAM, and is deeply adapted to the iOS 27 exclusive foldable split-screen system, with comprehensive optimization of productivity functions such as multi-window parallelism and cross-application drag-and-drop functionality.
Due to the difficulty in mass production of new hinge and screen technologies, the initial inventory of the new phone is limited. The starting price in overseas markets exceeds $2,000, and the estimated starting price in China is over 13,999 yuan.
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