{"id":231566,"date":"2026-04-05T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:45:10","slug":"deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Red Is Coming, Black Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizchina.com\/apple\/iphone-18-pro-colors-leak-deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not\">Deep Red Is Coming, Black Is Not<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizchina.com\/apple\/iphone-18-pro-colors-leak-deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not\">https:\/\/www.gizchina.com\/apple\/iphone-18-pro-colors-leak-deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 18:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gizchina.com\">www.gizchina.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is skipping black on the iPhone 18 Pro for the second year running. That&#8217;s the news sitting underneath the more exciting headline \u2014 a deep red finish is reportedly being tested for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, and if it ships, it would be the first time the Pro lineup has ever come in red.Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman broke the deep red detail. Weibo leaker WHYLAB confirmed black isn&#8217;t coming back.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"heading-content\" id=\"heading-1\">Key Points<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"\n          list-outside pl-10\n          list-disc \n        \"><\/p>\n<li class=\"[&#038;>a]:text-primary dark:[&#038;a]:text-white [&#038;a]:underline md:text-lg text-base&#8221;Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman reports Apple is testing a deep red finish for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max \u2014 described as more of a rich burgundy shade than a bright red<\/li>\n<li class=\"[&#038;>a]:text-primary dark:[&#038;a]:text-white [&#038;a]:underline md:text-lg text-base&#8221;Black is confirmed absent for a second consecutive year \u2014 the iPhone 17 Pro already dropped it for the first time in the lineup&#8217;s history<\/li>\n<li class=\"[&#038;>a]:text-primary dark:[&#038;a]:text-white [&#038;a]:underline md:text-lg text-base&#8221;Earlier rumors of purple and brown options appear to be variants of the same red direction according to Gurman \u2014 not separate color choices<\/li>\n<li class=\"[&#038;>a]:text-primary dark:[&#038;a]:text-white [&#038;a]:underline md:text-lg text-base&#8221;The foldable iPhone launching alongside the 18 Pro is reportedly getting conservative space gray and silver finishes, contrasting with the Pro&#8217;s bolder palette<\/li>\n<li class=\"[&#038;>a]:text-primary dark:[&#038;a]:text-white [&#038;a]:underline md:text-lg text-base&#8221;September 2026 is the expected launch window \u2014 all color details remain unconfirmed until Apple makes it official<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"heading-content\">A Pro iPhone in Red Would Be a First<\/h3>\n<p>The iPhone Pro line has never shipped in red. The standard and Plus models carried PRODUCT(RED) for years before it was discontinued \u2014 but the Pro tier always stuck to premium neutrals. Testing a deep red or burgundy finish for the 18 Pro represents a genuine departure from that tradition, not just an incremental palette refresh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/r.testifier.nl\/Acbs8526SDKI\/resizing_type:fit\/width:500\/plain\/https:\/\/s3-newsifier.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/gizchina.com\/images\/2026-01\/apple-iphone-18-pro-front-design-696bbb8369db9.jpg@webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"Apple-iPhone-18-Pro-Front-Design\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gurman&#8217;s &#8220;burgundy&#8221; description matters. This isn&#8217;t the bright cherry red of old PRODUCT(RED) devices. It&#8217;s a deeper, more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizchina.com\/apple\/iphone-18-pro-colors-leak-deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Red Is Coming, Black Is Not https:\/\/www.gizchina.com\/apple\/iphone-18-pro-colors-leak-deep-red-is-coming-black-is-not Publish Date: 2026-04-05 18:40:00 Source Domain: www.gizchina.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/r.testifier.nl\/Acbs8526SDKI\/resizing_type:fill\/width:1200\/height:630\/plain\/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-newsifier.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fgizchina.com%2Fimages%2F2026-01%2Fapple-iphone-18-pro-variable-ape-696bbbea34958.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-231566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231568,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231566\/revisions\/231568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}