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Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro will not be available in black, marking the second year in a row that buyers will have to choose a different color instead.
Mockup of a deep red iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple ditched black for the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025, choosing to offer a new Cosmic Orange color alongside Silver and Deep Blue. Now, Weibo leaker Instant Digital has poured cold water on any hopes that the stealth option would return in 2026.
“It seems that the black of the iPhone 18 Pro has been cut again,” the leaker said before saying that the move was “uncomfortable.” It’s unclear whether that last word was a quirk of machine translation, but it likely matches the mood of iPhone buyers who prefer their devices to blend into the background. Something nobody could accuse the Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro of doing.
Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely
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