Jun 22, 2026BF3-0033Never settled
The Elec: Foldable iPhone hinge had noise issue
The foldable iPhone hinge produced unwanted noise after assembly during development.
The Elec reported that Apple's foldable iPhone hinge produced unwanted noise after assembly during development, a problem industry sources say Apple is now addressing.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe foldable iPhone hinge produced unwanted noise after assembly during development.
- Who said it, and whenIt was reported on Jun 22, 2026 in The Elec, and we could not tell who reported it first.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone Duo was announced on Sep 9, 2026, 79 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyNever settledThe company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.Why: A development-stage hinge noise problem is not something Apple has ever addressed, before or after the announcement. What the company published
What do these words mean?
- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Unnamed source
- We read it in
- The Elec
- Product
- Apple iPhone Duo · reported as “foldable iPhone”