A new leak suggests that Apple is preparing for the “test production” of the iPhone 17th, which should be published in the spring of 2026.
The Chinese leak, “Fixed Focus Digital”, works mainly on WeChat and Weibo, and in the ear on the Chinese supply chain. He says that the iPhone 17th is about to enter the “test production” which is common at this stage – it is essentially a small -scale test production configuration intended to find problems or ineffectiveness while producing a small number of test devices. It is a question of giving both Apple to find and solve problems as well as time to adjust the production line.
When Apple abandoned the iPhone SE from its range and replaced it with the iPhone 16th more expensive (but more capable) as a most affordable IPhone, we hypothesized that the name change was very significant: Apple would change its most affordable iPhone from a kind of rate of update and random multi-year update to regular annual updates within the framework of the range of iPhone Standard, numbered.
It seems that this is the case, at least according to this last rumor. The trial production of “test” units a year before launch is not uncommon; Volume production would start a few months earlier, to give the manufacture of millions of iphones time and to travel via a freighter for its global launch. This launch would occur next spring, about a year after the sale of the iPhone 16th.
We do not know if Apple will simply replace the 16th with the new model or will reduce the price of the existing phone to $ 499. We also do not know what features of the iPhone 17 will go to the 17th, but with the test units that start to occur, rumors should start to appear soon.
