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A Foxconn supply chain source told Jiemian News that iPhone Duo assembly yields were just over 60% in mid-September, with a 2026 stocking target of six to eight million units.
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See the full reportingAn extra verification round on the hinge pushed commercial production back by weeks.
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58% track record
Similar reports have held up 58% of the time in our historical data.
Based on how reporting on Apple iPhone Duo has held up, across 45 settled reports.
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Apple iPhone Duo is our pick for multitasking, photos and video and everyday use. Where it does not lead, here is what does, and why you would switch.
It is 5.64mm thick and weighs 165 grams.
It plays on a 120Hz ProMotion display driven by the A19 chip.
It gives you up to 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage.
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A Foxconn supply chain source told Jiemian News that iPhone Duo assembly yields were just over 60% in mid-September, with a 2026 stocking target of six to eight million units.
Apple is likely testing it as iOS 27.0.1. If your phone froze after a missed Face ID scan, you don't need to swap it.
Wi-Fi calling still works, and a fix may arrive with iOS 27.0.1 next week. Launch buyers are still inside the return window if it doesn't.
A stress test hit 1.1MB/s once the fast cache ran out, which matters for long ProRes recordings. Apple doesn't say which storage chip a phone ships with, and supply looks mixed.
Almost every major repair on this phone goes in through the screen. iFixit's provisional score is 7 out of 10, and it leaves the frame problem out until it knows more.
It happens when Face ID guards a locked app, not at the lock screen. Apple support told one owner to swap the phone, but the reporter who reproduced it expects a software fix.
If you're waiting for the 20th-anniversary iPhone, expect a slightly bigger screen rather than a sharper one. It's one leaker's early test specs, a year out.
The Pro Max battery clears 20 watt-hours, so Apple added a Prepare to Ship step that discharges it before repair or trade-in, with an undo that can wait 14 days.
iFixit's teardown puts the North American iPhone 18 Pro at 4,288 mAh, about 232 mAh above the European model that still carries a SIM tray.
A TechInsights teardown puts Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80 in the American iPhone 18 Pro Max. Every other iPhone 18 this year runs Apple's C2.
The battery figure going around depends on which phone got opened. A SIM-tray model reads 4,056 mAh, and the eSIM-only version sold in the US reads 4,288.
Hands-on clips from three early testers cover typing, landscape multitasking and the camera, a month before the phone goes on sale.
Every other repair fee on the iPhone 18 Pro held at last year's price, so the battery is the single line Apple moved. AppleCare+ owners still pay nothing once health drops under 80 percent.
Tom's Guide benchmarked both A20 Pro phones. Peak speed is nearly identical, but under a long stress test the Pro Max kept 79.4% of its performance and the Pro kept 62.8%.
The folding iPhone costs twice as much as an iPhone 17 but shoots like one, unlocks with Touch ID, and leaves your old MagSafe wallet hanging off the bottom.
If you want an iPhone 18 Pro, most models aren't hard to get. The real waits are on the Pro Max, and one analyst now expects Apple to build fewer Pro phones and fewer iPhone Duos.
An hour after ordering opened, a September 18 delivery was still available on nearly every configuration. Burgundy is the exception, and it slipped by nearly three weeks.
Apple's percentages are its own generation-to-generation comparisons, published with no test conditions behind them. The only measured A20 Pro score in public is an unverified leak.
The Duo's camera list runs to a 48MP main camera, a 48MP ultra wide and 4K Dolby Vision at 120 frames per second. Spatial video, ProRes and Apple Log are not on it, and all three are on the iPhone 18 Pro's page by name.
Pre-orders for the $1,999 Duo open October 16 and Apple has published no manual, no care instructions and no repair price for the folding display. None of the six products announced on September 9 has a support library.
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