A foldable iPhone, smarter AirTags, and a lighter MacBook Pro may all be coming sooner than expected. Here’s what the leaks suggest for 2026.
RAM prices are out of control in the U.S., causing many to fear that electronic devices — computers, smartphones, and anything even indirectly dependent on NAND — will escape the consumer’s ability to afford them. Possibly for years to come. Now the question on everyone’s mind is how it’s going to affect Apple, a company notorious for overpriced products. Still, 2026 has a whole slate of rumored Apple products coming. Even if we can’t afford them, though, we can still enjoy them vicariously through a YouTube video.
Again, these are rumored releases. Leakers and analysts look at supply chains and talk to insider sources to guess — sometimes with high accuracy, sometimes without — what products are coming next and when. However, they are always rumors. Apple may not be able to stop insiders from blabbing, but it is known to keep a tight lip right up until an announcement, often only shortly before release. Anything on this list is subject to change and may not come out quite so soon — or at all. With that said, these six things are the most exciting potential 2026 releases.iPhone Fold
Folding phones may be nerdy, niche tech that the average consumer can’t budget for, but they have been around longer than we mentally imagine; the first came out in 2018, making them nearly a decade old. Samsung is already on its seventh-generation: Galaxy Z Fold 7. Most major manufacturers have one, except Apple. The tech giant has been quietly developing its own folding tech, and it appears 2026 is a plausible release window.
As per tradition, Apple is trying to perfect what its competitors have already been doing. Notable features of the Fold could include a potentially crease-free display courtesy of Samsung, a « liquid metal » hinge, and an atypical screen ratio. If the latter rumor is true, then the iPhone would be much squatter when folded, at about 5.3 inches (about 9 mm thick), expanding into roughly the size of an iPad Mini at 7.76 inches (roughly 4.8 mm thick). YouTuber Snazzy Labs printed a mock-up of an allegedly leaked design and « used » it to understand why Apple hadn’t gone with the typical screen size of two side-by-side smartphones. He suggests that this ratio is actually ingenious and makes a foldable a lot easier and more enjoyable to use.
This also may be one of the first iPhones to feature a hole-punch camera design and may even mark a return to the iPhone’s Touch ID days of yore. It’s been argued that the iPhone Air was a test run for ultra-thin technology, and that the iPhone Fold will improve on it while fixing the issues it got wrong — including using a more efficient chip and modem. Naturally, it’s going to cost you. Expect to pay around $1,800 on the low end, or as much as $2,500. Foldables are notoriously expensive, but this is Apple.Budget MacBook
MacBooks are incredible devices, and anyone looking to make the switch from Windows to Mac will probably be glad they did. There is, however, one little niggling issue: the price. Apple’s « cheapest » current-gen M4 MacBook Air starts at $899. You can go cheaper with an educational discount, a refurbished model, or by buying new, outdated models on Amazon, but even then, it’s quite pricey for what is Apple’s entry-level laptop. That may change if the long-rumored budget MacBook arrives in 2026.
TrendForce suggests this would be a smaller 12.9-inch MacBook priced much more competitively, perhaps as little as $599.
