{"id":268294,"date":"2026-06-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:35:09","slug":"apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple accidentally confirms iPhone Ultra during WWDC \u2013 you just had to look hard for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3.com\/tech\/iphones\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it\">Apple accidentally confirms iPhone Ultra during WWDC \u2013 you just had to look hard for it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3.com\/tech\/iphones\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it\">https:\/\/www.t3.com\/tech\/iphones\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.t3.com\">www.t3.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"boxout__title\">Quick Summary<\/h5>\n<p>Apple didn&#8217;t tease any future devices during WWDC 2026, but there are a few pointers found in new code the could relate to the iPhone Ultra.<\/p>\n<p>These crop up in the iOS 27 beta \u2013 released during WWDC \u2013 but there are additional hints that Apple could be working on a folding phone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-bcc2cbf9-37e8-45ca-afaa-91b9b4c34c89\">The iPhone Ultra is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro in September 2026. That will see Apple with its first foldable phone, but thanks to WWDC 2026 a number of references to the forthcoming device might have surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these cropped up in the iOS 27 developer beta, which was released immediately after the keynote. That&#8217;s given some users time to dive through the code and find new references.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-09dfef6c-a06b-4efa-83ab-69f824ddc742-0\">Highlighted by 9to5Mac, X user @samhenrigold pointed out that within the code were references to &#8220;foldState&#8221; and &#8220;angleDegrees&#8221;, as well as a new MobileGestalt key to highlight the number of displays on a device.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/muyd8brflw1729511975.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/muyd8brflw1729511975.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MobileGestalt is a system library in iOS that the device can refer to \u2013 and in the past, all iPhones have had one display, so there&#8217;s been no need to find out how many displays there are. In a folding phone, you&#8217;d need that information, because there are two.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">also a new MG key to get the total count of built-in displays pic.twitter.com\/0uhik5DWROJune 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-a609939e-48e7-495d-bc96-d7701da0bb9d\">That perhaps hints that iOS 27 is ready to support a new format of device.<\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-[#333]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-[#333]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-normal\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, some users have spotted that iPhone mirroring on macOS can be resized to look like an iPad, with many suggesting this is preparation to support the iPhone Ultra&#8217;s unfolded display.<\/p>\n<p>While there might not be a need to mirror the iPhone Ultra&#8217;s main display, it perhaps gives an insight into how apps might shift from the external display to the main internal display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get all the latest news, reviews, deals and buying guides on gorgeous tech, home and active products from the T3 experts<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.23%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple Xcode Device Hub\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-1606-80.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-1600-80.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-1280-80.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-768-80.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-415-80.jpg 415w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-360-80.jpg 360w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi-320-80.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 710px) 670px, calc(100vw - 30px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/A6fU7vLkpLbYBUHXC2EwBi.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)]\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Apple)<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-9201245b-6c00-4187-b771-217d6cc6ff64\">That&#8217;s not the only place where this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t3.com\/tech\/iphones\/apple-accidentally-confirms-iphone-ultra-during-wwdc-you-just-had-to-look-hard-for-it\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple accidentally confirms iPhone Ultra during WWDC \u2013 you just had to look hard for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/PaUJk4XhmHEpyCv8HFAyU6-1280-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,81],"class_list":["post-268294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268294"}],"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=268294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268297,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268294\/revisions\/268297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}