Según Ming Chi Kuo The first foldable iPhone would begin mass production this yearstarting in summer 2025, to be launched at the end of the same or beginning of 2026.

Rumors about the foldable iPhone have been with us for years, since before the first foldable smartphone was launched back in 2018. Several years have passed in which the main mobile phone manufacturers have launched different models, with greater or lesser success, but None has fully established itself as a real alternative in the market. The problems with the durability of the screens and their high price compared to other models with the same features and a conventional design are the main obstacles that have been found when convincing users.

Apple has been working on this type of smartphone for several years, looking for solutions to screen problems and thinking about the most interesting design for a folding smartphone. A conventional design that when opened offers a square screen or a square design that when opened offers a wide screen? Well, according to Ming Chi Kuo, our favorite analyst, the decision has already been made. In the second half of 2025, mass production of this first foldable iPhone will begin. It could therefore be launched at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2026.

It will be a model that, like the iPhone “Air”, It will not have a SIM tray so it will only work through eSIMsomething that already happens in iPhone models sold in the United States, and a decision that will end up affecting all iPhone models in the near future. The problem is that in China, one of the most important markets for Apple, the SIM tray is mandatory to be marketed, so these models would face difficulties for that market.