A muddled and entirely unverifiable rumor claims that Apple has been testing other manufacturer’s folding phones and decided to put the iPhone Fold on hold.
Following reports that Apple is working on two prototype ideas for a foldable iPhone, a new claim says it isn’t. The claim from a leaker on Chinese social media site Weibo says both that Apple is accelerating its research, and that it has also given up for now.
Weibo user Fixed Focus Digital, explains that Apple has bought several existing folding phones to test. Perhaps the report is unclear because of machine translation, but it seems to say that at least one of these rival phones broke within a few days of Apple buying it for testing.
Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible