The disparate parts of Apple's sprawling supply chain are gradually coalescing around the final form and specs for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro counterpart, with the emerging consensus serving to dampen the prospects of a dramatic overhaul.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max is now tipped to match the thickness of its predecessor, lending credence to the speculation that not much will change with the upcoming Pro duo
To wit, the tipster Ice Universe has now penned a post on Weibo, disclosing that the iPhone 18 Pro Max will sport a thickness of 8.75mm, which matches that of its predecessor, the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
This suggests that not much is expected to change with the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro duo, especially as Apple's attentions are apparently fixated on its first foldable, dubbed the iPhone Ultra.
Meanwhile, as we reported recently, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will come equipped with Samsung's M16 OLED tech, which is a native 10-bit panel that swaps out blue fluorescent OLED material for blue phosphorescent material, entailing a meaningful jump in efficiency.
Even so, according to another tidbit, the iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro companion will miss out on a dual OLED screen, where two RGB OLED layers are stacked on top of each other to yield a substantially brighter screen. Of course, Apple can still implement a quasi-dual OLED of sorts by stacking another blue sub-pixel layer.
At any rate, the iPhone 18 Pro duo will come with an LTPO+ OLED screen, which dramatically improves efficiency by dynamically adjusting the display's refresh rate, notching it up to 120Hz for gaming or smooth scrolling and bringing it all the way down to 1Hz when viewing a static image.
Also, over the past few weeks, we've received persistent rumors regarding a supposedly smaller Dynamic Island on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, achieved by moving some components of the Face ID module below the display layer. A MacWorld source adheres to this view, as does Ice Universe.
Even so, Digital Chat Station has continued to maintain that the iPhone 18 Pro duo will sport minimal changes in relation to the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with upgrades whittled down to the A20 Pro chip, a variable-aperture camera setup, and a larger battery.
Apparently, these conflicting reports are the result of the A/B testing that Apple continues to undertake ahead of a final decision to move some Face ID components beneath the display.
Additionally, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, its Pro counterpart, and the iPhone Ultra will all sport Apple's all-new C2 modem, with support for 5G mmWave networks as well as satellite-based connectivity.
Finally, we reported recently that the iPhone 18 Pro Max and its Pro companion will come in four distinct color options: Dark Gray, Dark Cherry, Light Blue, and Silver. Well, now we have real-life chassis images that indicate exactly how these color options will look like.
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