iPhone timetable: Analyst calls appointments for the coming years

According to the latest reports on Apple’s iPhone planning for the coming years, a well-known market observer has now registered with his own roadmap. Ming-Chi Kuo from the Taiwanese investment house TF International Securities, well networked in Apple’s supply chain, believes in a model more than other rumor chefs, and he also sees second versions that have not yet been available to users.

The large iPhone time bar

Kuo presented Apple on his website iPhone time bar promoted to him for the years 2025 to 2027 on-line. How stable this is, however, remains unclear. For 2025, Kuo – like many other experts – expects four 17 models in autumn: iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and the particularly thin 17 Air, which he calls “17 slim”. For the first half of 2026, Apple supposedly plans to launch a 17E, a direct successor to the 16e from February-a recent report of the IT news service The Information had nevertheless denied this.

In autumn 2026, Kuo no longer sees a standard iPhone, but for the first time a first iPhone foldable (probably 8 inches, otherwise 5.7 inches), 18 per and 18 per Max Plus an iPhone 18 Slim as the second, especially flat iPhone. In the first half of 2027, iPhone 18 (as a slimmed down version of the pros) and an iPhone 18e (entry -level model) were intended. For autumn 2027, the analyst expects a second iPhone foldable, iPhone 19 Pro and 19 Pro Max Plus iPhone 19 Slim (with a larger display than the 18 slim).

Twice iPhones a year is better for Apple

Kuo continues that Apple has various advantages through the new publication strategy with two appointments a year – spring and autumn. This includes adapting to the release cycles of competitors who often present in the first half of the year plus the opportunity to offer more models to conquer new markets-or to keep existing ones.

The publication of all devices in the second half of the year could also make marketing more difficult, since there is too much choice for the Christmas business. More sales of the Pro model ensured, for example, that the number of standard models sold decreased. In addition, an equalization of Apple could help to better manage production changes, as they become essential through the tariffs of the US government.