This has been known for quite some time Apple is working on foldable iPhones and iPads. As I recalled a few weeks ago when I reflected on the latest rumors in this regard (at the time), we have been seeing information about this since 2017, a long period in which the foldable smartphone market has evolved more than substantially. both in the variety of models available and in users interested in making the jump to folding.

So if we were to talk about any other technology, the first reading would be that it is very, very late, but of course, We have to remember that we are talking about Apple, that is, a corporate expert waiting for the right moment, which in his case is the maturity of the target market, to reformulate the proposal with his specific approach, which has the potential to completely transform the market. We have seen this many times in the past and it is quite likely that it will happen again in the future.

The difference on this occasion is that the foldable smartphone market, while growing, still doesn’t seem to have reached the level of development expected by the tech companies that have joined it, and we’ve already known of resistance in the past, some from Apple. hurry. However, Under the current circumstances, it seems more prudent to take the leapdespite the fact that the foldable iPhone would most likely be an important boost to the entire foldable market.

Although at the beginning of the year there was a rumor that Cupertino had suspended the project, recently there have been others to the contrary, to which is added the one that we can now read in GSMArena, which states that Apple is preparing a foldable iPhone and iPad, both for 2026. In this case, the information comes from analyst Jeff Pu’s latest report, which has proven to be accurate in the past, although you already know that this type of information should always be taken with a grain of salt.

This information suggests that the foldable iPhone and iPad will be introduced together with the iPhone 17 generation in September 2025, but this seems very unlikely, since the latter states that it will be launched at the end of 2026, for example, would be talking about a period of more than one year between announcement and launch. It seems much more likely that if it is true that it will come to market in late 2026 (or early 2027), Apple officially announced it at WWDC 2026to give developers enough time to adapt their apps to the new form factors that will arrive with these devices.