Jay Peters
I don’t hate the rumored iPhone 17 Pro camera bar.
That is, if the actual phone looks anything like these photos from leaker Majin Bu. What do you think?
iPhone
Over the past ten years, Apple’s iPhone has become the company’s most valuable —and recently, somewhat volatile— asset. Since its introduction in 2007, the iPhone helped to jumpstart the smartphone revolution, and with it came some big innovations. The App Store, touchscreen gaming, the mass adoption of social media, and protecting user data with biometrics. Its product lineup is enmeshed in Apple’s ecosystem, and the impact that it continues to have around the globe is vast.
Emma Roth
Another update on Apple’s folding iPhone.
Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes in a post on X that Apple supplier Foxconn could “kick off the project” later this year, targeting a 2026 release. Kuo says the display is “one of the few components” that Apple has finalized so far, but “plans remain subject to change.”
A previous report from the analyst suggests the phone will fold like a book, with a 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.5-inch outer screen.
Jay Peters
Here’s Joanna Stern’s full interview with Craig and Joz.
In addition to their discussion of what happened with AI Siri, Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak talked about how an Apple Watch might fit into Apple’s AI device plans, if Apple is working on a foldable (“who’s to say?”), and if iPhone prices will go up due to tariffs (“nothing to announce”). It’s worth watching.
Dominic Preston
The Android phone that works with Apple.
Vivo claims its X Fold 5 has achieved an Android first: interoperability with the Apple Watch. According to product manager Han Boxiao the watch can display calls and texts from the X Fold 5, and sync health data. The phone can also receive calls and texts sent to an iPhone, access iCloud, and extend the display of a Mac.
How? We have no idea, but hopefully we’ll find out when the phone launches this month.
1/3The Apple Watch can apparently display calls from the Vivo phone. Image: Han Boxiao / Weibo
Andrew Liszewski
Apple has released a haptic F1 trailer enhanced with iPhone vibrations.
If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 18.4 or later, the Apple TV Plus tab of the TV app now features a trailer for the upcoming Brad Pitt F1 movie that’s now enhanced with vibrations created by the modern iPhone’s Taptic Engine.
You can not only feel an F1 car’s engine revving, but subtler events in the trailer like the click of a seatbelt being fastened, and buttons being pressed on a steering wheel.
Screenshot: Apple TV
Big changes are in store across Apple’s platforms, from a design refresh to major multitasking improvements for the iPad.
Emma Roth
David Pierce
I need to know so much more about Trump’s iPhone.
This fun story from The Atlantic is about President Trump’s love of phone calls, and the risks that entails: impersonation, hacking, and much more. But as soon as I read an advisor saying that “he is not walking around with a run-of-the-mill iPhone off the shelf,” I immediately had one thousand more questions. I now need to go find answers.
(Also, if, like me, you’ve never stopped wondering how Obama’s BlackBerry worked, there are some interesting details here.)
The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
[theatlantic.com]
Richard Lawler
Elon Musk reportedly approached Apple years ago about an iPhone / SpaceX satellite deal.
The Information reports that three years ago, Musk offered Apple an 18-month exclusive connection via SpaceX in return for $5 billion up front, and $1 billion per year after that to support satellite-connected iPhone features. If Apple didn’t take it within 72 hours, he threatened to announce a competing feature.
Apple went forward with Globalstar (the report also mentions a canceled “Project Eagle” effort with Boeing that would’ve delivered full-blown internet service), and before the iPhone 14 launched, Starlink announced a deal with T-Mobile. Later that year, Musk and Cook met at Apple HQ to discuss Twitter’s App Store presence, “among other things.”
Apple’s Satellite Ambitions Threatened by Elon Musk, Internal Resistance
[theinformation.com]
Dominic Preston
Chinese iPhone exports to the US are way, way down.
Shipments dropped 76 percent in April 2025 compared to the year before, as those from India grew by the same percentage, according to new figures from Omdia. April’s figures are low overall, but skewed by March’s efforts to rush 600 tons of product into the US before tariffs hit.
The big question is if Apple will keep prioritizing Indian-made iPhones now that Trump has threatened fresh tariffs on all phones that aren’t made in the USA.
Image: CNBC / Omdia
David Nield
Antonio G. Di Benedetto and Nathan Edwards
Elizabeth Lopatto
Dominic Preston
Trump doesn’t want Apple’s Indian iPhones.
“I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” the president revealed during a visit to Qatar, after apparently telling the Apple CEO to stop moving its manufacturing to India. Apple has reportedly planned to use its Indian infrastructure to avoid higher tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump claims the company will now be “upping their production in the United States,” but there are many reasons an American iPhone just won’t happen.
Trump Wants Apple to Stop Moving iPhone Production to India
[bloomberg.com]
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Emma Roth and David Pierce
Wes Davis
Apple is supposedly waiting for ‘the robotic arms’ to build iPhones in the US.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he asked CEO Tim Cook about how to make US-built iPhones happen (despite Cook’s explanations for why they won’t), per an interview with CNBC:
LUTNICK: He said, “I need to have the robotic arms ... do it at a scale and at a precision that I can bring it here. And the day I see that available, it’s coming here, because I don’t like to employ all these people foreign.”
Chris Welch
Samsung might keep its anti-glare advantage over iPhones for another year.
Despite rumors that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro smartphones would feature an anti-glare display similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra / S25 Ultra, MacRumors is now pouring cold water on the possibility. Juli Clover reports that Apple has faced difficulties “scaling up the display coating process.” As a result, we’re not going to see this option for the iPhones 17 Pro.
With flagship phones all offering vibrant, bright screens nowadays, it would’ve been a nice differentiator.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
David Nield
Thomas Ricker
Apple’s moving US iPhone production to India.
That’s what The Financial Times’ sources are saying, with the goal of producing “the entirety of the more than 60mn iPhones sold annually in the US by the end of 2026.” But the real goal is to avoid the worst of Trump’s tariffs and to continue the diversification of Apple’s supply chain to places outside China.
So I guess “the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones” won’t be from the US? Shocking.
