The iPhone 18 is a series of smartphones developed by Apple Inc. Apple plans to release the iPhone 18 Pro series and Fold folding screen models in September 2026, and the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e in the first half of 2027, reserving market space for Apple’s first folding screen flagship.
On October 24, 2025, South Korean media The Bell published a blog post reporting that Apple has requested Samsung to supply approximately 13 million LPDDR5X memory chips in the second quarter of 2026 to meet the growing memory demand of the iPhone 18 series due to AI capabilities. The standard version of the iPhone 18 may be upgraded to 12GB of memory. In September 2026, Apple plans to release only the iPhone 18 Pro series with a Fold folding screen.
According to information exposed online, the iPhone 18 will adopt a 12GB RAM. The iPhone 18 Pro Max will adopt a steel shell battery for the first time to improve impact resistance and heat dissipation performance. In October 2025, Apple ordered 13 million pieces of 10 nanometer fifth generation DRAM chips using 1b process from Samsung to meet the production capacity demand in the second quarter of 2026
