iOS 27 Details: Apple Officially Announces Foldable iPhone

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Publish Date: 2026-06-16 06:12:00

Although iOS 27 is still in its first developer preview, it has already been recognized by the iFanr editorial team as the “most exciting iOS in five years.”

Compared with Siri AI, undoubtedly the autumn iPhone launch event in September will have a greater impact on us.

According to the most widespread leaks, the release schedule of the iPhone 18 series will be very different from previous years.

More specifically, it will be split into two launches in autumn and spring:

September 2026: Release of iPhone 18 Pro/Pro Max and the foldable iPhone Ultra

March/April 2027: Release of the standard iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e

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Undoubtedly, the most exciting and anticipated product update is the foldable iPhone Ultra –

After all, even though Siri was two years late, the edge-lit UI still became an industry standard.

Even if the foldable screen is seven years late, who knows, it might lead other manufacturers to “reinvent the foldable screen”?

All the currently known information indicates that the iPhone Ultra will be a product with a “wide-fold” form factor that unfolds into a landscape screen.

It will most likely adopt a straight-edge + rounded-corner body similar to the Pixel Fold, as well as a dual-camera setup with a main camera and an ultra-wide camera:

However, there are various speculations about the software aspects of the iPhone Ultra. There are countless speculations such as it becoming macOS when unfolded, simply copying iPadOS, or having a dual-boot iOS.

It wasn’t until WWDC 26 that the details of iOS 27 truly revealed the existence of the foldable iPhone to us.

The Return of the Wide Screen

In the past several major versions of iOS, although Apple rarely explicitly mentioned it, you must have felt a change:

The landscape mode of the iPhone has become increasingly difficult to use.

This change started in 2020 with iOS 14, when Apple removed the “Home screen rotation” feature, locking both full-screen and non-full-screen models into a…

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