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Apple launched iPhone Air successful September past twelvemonth on with its iPhone 17 series. The smartphone features a 5.6mm bladed profile, making it ‘thinnest iPhone ever’. A caller study present suggests that users waiting for the adjacent mentation of the iPhone Air whitethorn person to hold longer.
The Cupertino-based institution is improbable to motorboat a second-generation iPhone Air successful 2026. “Apple has astatine slightest 5 caller iPhone models successful the pipeline,” Nikkei Asia reports. These volition see “a revamped iPhone Air, its thinnest-ever model; the modular caller iPhone; and 3 premium models.” However, determination is nary clarity connected erstwhile iPhone Air shipments volition start, the study says adding it is not expected successful 2026.“It is not yet wide erstwhile shipments of the Air volition start, but they are not expected this year,” the study adds.
Apple whitethorn skip iPhone 18 successful 2026
Apple iPhone Air is not the lone iPhone that the steadfast whitethorn skip this year. As per the report, Apple whitethorn skip a 2026 motorboat for the iPhone 18 and propulsion its debut to 2027. The study cites 4 radical alert of the substance who accidental that Apple volition prioritise premium iPhone launches successful 2026 owed to the planetary representation crunch. The tech elephantine is said to absorption connected delivering its first-ever foldable iPhone arsenic good arsenic 2 Pro models for its motorboat successful the 2nd fractional of the twelvemonth and the the modular iPhone 18 exemplary volition beryllium scheduled for shipment successful the archetypal fractional of 2027.
“Apple is prioritizing the accumulation and shipment of its 3 astir premium caller iPhone models for 2026 portion pushing backmost the shipment of its modular exemplary amid a selling strategy alteration and proviso concatenation crunch,” it says."Supply concatenation smoothness is 1 of the cardinal challenges for this year, and the selling strategy alteration besides played a portion successful the determination [to prioritize premium models]," the study quotes an enforcement with an iPhone supplier who has nonstop cognition of the plan.
Supply concatenation constraints ‘likely’ reason
The study indicates that Apple seems to person started to consciousness the effects of soaring representation prices, and to minimize immoderate imaginable accumulation hiccups, the institution is taking measures to support things moving smoothly.A Nikkei Asia study earlier stated that the tech proviso chain, peculiarly the user electronics segment, is facing mounting unit implicit a proviso crunch for representation chips and assorted materials. Not conscionable Apple, but different Chinese smartphone makers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Transsion, person lowered their shipment forecasts for this year.
