Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Leaks iPhone 18 Professional Early

After sharing 3D renders for the anticipated foldable iPhone’s design, Jon Prosser, aka the YouTuber and leaker who Apple is suing for spilling the beans on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass, is again at it once more with one other detailed unveil. This time, for the iPhone 18 Pro. However there’s one new change which may be fully fallacious.

Prosser corroborates earlier reviews that Apple will announce the iPhone 18 Professional (and 18 Professional Max) alongside the foldable iPhone. There’ll reportedly be no common iPhone 18 since that’s supposedly getting pushed to a spring 2027 launch, and there might not be an iPhone Air 2 until 2027 as properly attributable to poor gross sales for the first-gen skinny phone.

As for what to anticipate from the iPhone 18 Execs: Prosser says they’ll appear like the iPhone 17 Execs however are available new colours (he says Apple is testing burgundy, brown, and purple), embody a sooner A20 Professional chip, and the primary digital camera will sport a “variable aperture,” which is a method for the lens to open and shut to manage how a lot mild reaches the picture sensor and, consequently, how shallow the depth of area (background blur or “bokeh” in pictures terminology) is. A variable aperture is well a “professional” digital camera function as a substitute of the present point-and-shoot performance. Prosser does warning that the variable aperture function could also be unique to the iPhone 18 Professional Max mannequin or not ship in any respect on any fashions.

Samsung launched a variable aperture within the Galaxy S9 series and stored it for the Galaxy S10 series earlier than eradicating it from the S20 phones. For sure, the function didn’t acquire any traction.

Prosser additionally says that the iPhone 18 Execs will include a simplified Digital camera Management button. As a substitute of getting each capacitive contact and pressure-sensitive capabilities, the brand new Digital camera Management will reportedly solely have the latter, which may imply shedding some swipe-based options that the button has on the iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air collection.

Moreover, Prosser says the iPhone 18 Execs can have a C2 modem (no extra Qualcomm ones) and a 5G by way of Satellite tv for pc function, which might mirror the same function within the newest Apple Watches just like the Ultra 3.

Nevertheless, the most important change may be to the entrance of the iPhone—particularly, the highest of the show the place the Dynamic Island is positioned. Prosser says the selfie digital camera will transfer from the highest heart to the highest left nook, which might be very un-Apple-like. In truth, as many have famous, it’d appear like an Android telephone, just like the Google Pixel 5. Why would Apple copy the look of five-year-old Android telephones?

There could have been some data that was misplaced in translation. Whereas Apple is anticipated to maneuver the iPhone’s flood illuminator to beneath the display screen (that is the element that may seemingly be moved to the highest left nook), the selfie digital camera, dot projector, and infrared digital camera would stay centered in a smaller pill-shaped cutout.

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— ShrimpApplePro 🍤 ずっと真夜中でいいのに (@VNchocoTaco) January 20, 2026

All of that is to say that no leaks—not even from Prosser—needs to be taken as reality. Keep in mind when Prosser was fallacious in regards to the Apple Watch Collection 7 getting a flat-sided redesign? As all the time, nothing is official till it comes immediately from Apple. Nonetheless, anticipate the leaks and rumors on the iPhone 18 Execs to select up from now till September, which is *checks calendar* not for one more eight months. That is simply how the leak cycle works.