# iPhone 18e may get a 6.3-inch screen and bigger battery

Source: https://idevice.com/iphone-18e-may-get-a-6-3-inch-screen-and-bigger-battery
Published: 2026-11-09

> A leaked diagram gives the iPhone 18e a 6.3-inch display and the iPhone 18's 4,430 mAh battery, though another leaker expects 6.12 inches.

The cheapest new iPhone might stop being the small one. Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital posted an annotated diagram of the [iPhone 18](https://idevice.com/phones/iphone/roadmap) and iPhone 18e side by side, and MacRumors reports that it gives both phones a 6.3-inch display and the same 4,430 mAh battery. The [iPhone 17e](https://idevice.com/phones/iphone-17e/roadmap) has a 6.1-inch screen, so you'd notice the difference the moment you picked one up.

That battery figure works out to about 21% more capacity for the standard iPhone and about 11% more for the 18e. Notes on the diagram say the standard model finds its extra room through changes to the bottom speaker and the haptic engine. The diagram labels the phones with the codenames Taycan for the iPhone 18 and Nevera for the 18e.

Fixed Focus Digital didn't draw it. They said it was already going around online and broadly matches what their sources told them, and they singled out the battery as an example of the interchangeable parts they'd described before. In an earlier post, they said the two models would share some manufacturing processes, and that a new chip was the only 18e upgrade they could confirm at the time.

The cameras still split the two. The diagram shows two rear cameras on the iPhone 18, including an Ultra Wide, and just one on the 18e, the same arrangement as earlier models.

Digital Chat Station, another Weibo leaker, tells a different story about the screen. That account has said the 18e keeps a 6.12-inch OLED at 60Hz, with a single 48-megapixel rear camera and possibly a better front camera, while the iPhone 18 stays at 6.3 inches and goes up to 120Hz. Both leakers can't be right about the size. Even if the diagram is, a 60Hz panel would leave the 18e looking plainly cheaper next to a 120Hz iPhone 18.

The inside of the phone gets more agreement. Digital Chat Station expects the 2nm A20 chip in the 18e, up from the 3nm A19 in the 17e. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said Apple's lower-end spring 2027 iPhones will pair the A20 with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB. Both phones are also rumored to get Apple's C2 modem, which would replace the Snapdragon X80 in the iPhone 17 and the C1X in the 17e.

Price is the open question. The 17e launched at $599 with 256GB of storage, and nobody has said whether its successor will hold that line.

The 18e is expected in spring 2027, alongside the standard iPhone 18 and the second-generation iPhone Air. If you're after a cheap iPhone and screen size or battery life matters to you, that's a short enough wait to be worth it before buying a 17e.