{"id":281658,"date":"2026-06-25T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/apple-to-start-foldable-iphone-mass-production-in-july-as-hinge-issue-eases\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:36:03","slug":"apple-to-start-foldable-iphone-mass-production-in-july-as-hinge-issue-eases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/apple-to-start-foldable-iphone-mass-production-in-july-as-hinge-issue-eases\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to Start Foldable iPhone Mass Production in July as Hinge Issue Eases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple to Start Foldable iPhone Mass Production in July as Hinge Issue Eases<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/319001\/20260625\/apple-start-foldable-iphone-mass-production-july-hinge-issue-eases.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-25 13:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.techtimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple will begin mass-producing its first foldable iPhone in late July, with a hinge problem that had fueled delay rumors now mostly resolved, keeping a September unveiling on track, according to a June 24 report by The Elec citing Apple supply-chain sources in South Korea and Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The headline is the timeline, but the real news is buried in one phrase: the hinge is mostly resolved. Apple has been late to foldables for a reason \u2014 it refused to ship until the single component that makes or breaks the category met its standards. That the hinge has now cleared is what actually unlocks everything downstream: the July production start, the September reveal, the reshuffled fall lineup, and a record price.<\/p>\n

What Apple Has Locked In<\/h3>\n

Apple has finalized the foldable’s key specifications \u2014 display, casing, and mechanical parts \u2014 and entered mass-production preparation, with Foxconn handling initial units after a first trial run in April. Samsung Display supplies the foldable OLED panel and recently won Apple’s approval to ship initial modules from its Vietnam plant, completing the module stage \u2014 attaching the driver circuit, flexible PCB, and protective parts. Korean media report a three-year exclusive deal and an initial order of about three million panels: a small, premium-tier volume that signals a deliberate first-generation introduction rather than a push for scale.<\/p>\n

Why the Hinge Decides Everything<\/h3>\n

A regular phone is a rigid slab. A foldable has to bend a glass-and-OLED sandwich hundreds of thousands of times over its life without cracking the screen, loosening, or leaving an ugly crease \u2014 and the part that governs all of that is the hinge. It carries the folding display through its arc, sets how flat the phone closes and how gentle the bend radius is (which determines how visible the crease is), and absorbs the mechanical stress of every open-and-close so the panel doesn’t. That is why a hinge problem is existential, not cosmetic.<\/p>\n

The hinge \u2014 supplied by…<\/p>\n

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