Leaked iPhone roadmap offers best reason yet for year-based rebrand

Source: AppleTrack This week brought a surprising report saying Apple plans to rebrand all its software platforms with year-based naming. So, iOS 26 will launch this fall (think car models) rather than iOS 19. Could iPhone hardware be the next subject of change? Apple’s leaked roadmap may offer a clue. iPhone release schedule shake-up coming Earlier this month, reporting from Wayne Ma and Ming-Chi Kuo offered an expansive preview of Apple’s roadmap for upcoming iPhone models. That roadmap contained several surprises, one of which was a schedule shake-up. Starting next year, Apple is expected to stop releasing its new base model iPhone in the fall. So what could be called the iPhone 18 will actually ship the following spring, about six months later. And the fall models will include: iPhone Air iPhone Pro iPhone Pro Max and iPhone Fold This change isn’t simply a one-off. Rather, Apple is expected to start shipping six new iPhones every year: two lower-cost models in the sprin ... Read full article.