iPhone 18 adopts iPhone 17 Pro design: How fake leaks generate clicks
iPhone 18 adopts iPhone 17 Pro design: How fake leaks generate clicks
Publish Date: 2026-06-22 11:37:00
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Is there more to the iPhone 18 design leak?
Quite obviously, there are currently no realistic leaks regarding the iPhone 18’s design; these are all modified images being widely shared on social media—including, incidentally, on the Chinese platform Weibo, where we also searched for sources. Instead, we discovered the promotional image below, which, of course, isn’t real either. All of this shows how a narrative based on supposed leaks can spread quickly without any realistic base. But could an iPhone 18 in the iPhone 17 Pro design even be realistic? That’s a perfectly valid question—after all, Apple has, on several occasions in the past, passed Pro features down to the base iPhone model a year later, for instance the Dynamic Island or the Action Button.
So it’s not entirely unrealistic to assume that the camera design of the current Pro models will also be adopted in 2026, especially since the iPhone 17 camera design currently doesn’t exactly fit in well with iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone 17 Pro Max. Whether Apple will simply remove the telefoto to make the next iPhone 18 as the current leaks suggest remains to be seen. A large Pro camera bar for two cameras would be a huge waste of space. So it’s possible that Apple will instead adopt the iPhone Air design for the iPhone 18, which is also expected to offer room for two cameras on the iPhone Air 2 and will also be used for the iPhone Ultra.
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