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892 Leaker: Apple Downgrading iPhone 18 to Cut Costs

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Hartley Charlton @ MacRumors · 04/20/2026 12:12 EDT

Leaker: Apple Downgrading iPhone 18 to Cut Costs

Apple is downgrading the planned specifications of the standard iPhone 18 to cut costs, a leaker claims.


In a new post on Weibo, the user known as "Fixed Focus Digital" said that the ‌iPhone 18‌ features "certain manufacturing downgrades" that bring it more into line with the low-cost iPhone 18e model. The decision is said to be "a cost-cutting measure."

Apple has apparently chosen to implement new cost-control strategies for the device, including specific downgrades to manufacturing processes, chip

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