The focus on pricing for iPhones is suddenly intense because of the new tariffs arriving soon. New analysis pushes the possible price as high as $3,500 soon.
Updated April 5 with new analysis and Apple’s room for maneuver.
You can snap up an iPhone for $599 at the moment: the newly released iPhone 16e. But the tariffs newly announced by President Trump have suggested that the price could go up by 43%, which could take the iPhone 16e to $856. And now, a respected analyst suggests that other models could be much pricier. Take heart, other commenters believe that things may not be as bad as all that, or that Apple could take actions to mitigate these issues.
The tariffs, which would apply to the iPhone because most are made in China, have already produced reports from analysts which suggest the 43% price increase, which would also mean that a top-flight iPhone 16 Pro Max with the biggest 1TB storage would go up from its current $1,599 sticker to $2,300 — assuming Apple passes on the full cost of the change to consumers.
Now, Dan Ives from Wedbush, a respected technology analyst, has said that prices could increase dramatically above that.
Speaking on Yahoo Finance’s Morning Brief, Ives talked through his thoughts. First he said that if the iPhones “were built in the U.S., right off the bat, just under tariffs it’s over $2,000,” he said.
