The iPhone 18 Pro’s aluminum frame and camera housing will be thicker than the iPhone 17 Pro’s, the leaker known as “Fixed Focus Digital” says in a Weibo post.
Citing leaked materials from Tata, he/she says the iPhone 18 Pro’s overall body and rear camera plateau, will be thicker than the current model.
The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are expected to arrive in the September/October time frame. The foldable iPhone — expected to be dubbed either the “iPhone Fold” or “iPhone Ultra” — should arrive shortly thereafter.
The standard (non-Pro) iPhone 18 should debut early next. An iPhone 18e and second generation iPhone Air are also anticipated in the first half of 2027.
Here are some of the other rumors about the upcoming smart phones:
° The iPhone 18 Pro Max will have a very big battery.
° The iPhone 18 Pro will only come in three colors: dark cherry, light blue, and silver.
° The iPhone 18 Pro Max will be the same thickness as its predecessor, measuring in at 8.75mm.
° The iPhone 18 Pro will retain its aluminum alloy build.
° There will be a smaller Dynamic Island on the devices that could be 35% smaller than those on the iPhone 17.
° The main 48-megapixel Fusion camera on both iPhone 18 Pro models will have a variable aperture that will allow users to control the amount of light that passes through the camera’s lens and reaches the sensor.
° They’ll pack an A20 Pro chip using TSMC’s first-generation 2nm process.
° They’ll include the N2 chip that enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread.
° They’ll have a C2 cellular modem, the follow-up to Apple’s custom C1 that debuted in the iPhone 16e last year, and that was followed by a C1X chip in the iPhone Air.
° The iPhone 18 Pro will have a front camera cutout in the top-left corner of the screen alongside a new under-display Face ID system.
° The iPhone 18 Pro Max may be the heaviest iPhone yet.
° The iPhone 18 Pro could drop the current two-tone look of the rear casing found on the iPhone 17 Pro in favor of a more seamless aesthetic.
° All flagship models will be equipped with a 24-megapixel front facing camera, up from 18 megapixels on iPhone 17 models.
° The base model may pack 50% more memory than the base model of the iPhone 17.
° Apple is working to simplify the Camera Control button component to reduce costs.
° Apple will stick with 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch displays (rounded up) for 2027’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, respectively.
° The iPhone 18 models will have displays that use less battery power than current models.
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