Apple’s foldable iPhone may offer monstrous performance thanks to this rumored feature
Apple’s foldable iPhone may offer monstrous performance thanks to this rumored feature
Publish Date: 2026-06-01 16:59:00
Source Domain: www.phonearena.com
Apple may be preparing to solve one of the more annoying issues with many foldable phones. Despite their big displays, those devices often rely on thermal throttling to keep cooling under control, but the iPhone Ultra may have something else on board.
The iPhone Ultra may feature a vapor chamber cooling
Apple may add vapor chamber cooling to its first foldable iPhone despite the rumored thin chassis. The information was shared (source in Chinese) by Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, who said that the device will have “quite impressive” thermal performance.The company is claimed to be “really going all out” with the thermal engineering of the upcoming foldable. This is a notable addition, considering that Apple may sacrifice several key features, such as Face ID, telephoto camera, and MagSafe support, because of the thin design of the iPhone Ultra.
Making it in September
The iPhone Ultra could still launch on time. | Image by fpt.
One of the few unanswered questions about Apple’s foldable is whether it will launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro in September, or if it’ll come to the market a bit later. Fixed Focus Digital claims that the pre-assembly manufacturing processes are under pressure, and the production ramp-up is meeting difficulties.Regardless of those, the original launch schedule is still holding, which means we’re likely to get the device on time. The leaker also teased they have more positive news to share tomorrow.
A surprising addition
We’ve heard about the possibility that the iPhone Ultra features a vapor chamber only once before. At the time, it was said that Apple would use the same cooling system it utilized for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max to help boost the foldable’s performance.
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