With an iPhone “fold”, Apple is believed to be working on a large foldable device, around 19 inches, and an analyst suggests that it can only come with Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone at the end of next year.
In a new research note covering the potential post-tariff scenarios, the head of the investment firm GF Securities, Jeff Pu, says that both 18.8-inch and 7.8-inch foldable devices have seen the progress of growth and are estimated to have a large-scale production in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Pu said last month, when he claimed that Apple’s first two foldable devices recently entered the new product introduction (NPI) phase in Foxconn. When large -scale production begins in the second half of 2026, the devices can launch next year or at some point in 2027.
BloombergMark Gurman believes that Apple is working on a foldable IPIPIPAD with a 20-inch display, which will come out in 2028, while analyst Ross Young said that he expects a foldable tablet-device in 2026 or 2027, so it is safe to say that the date of launch is safe. A conflicting report also appears on what kind of device will be foldable.
The PU believes that the foldable device Apple is working on will be the MacBook-IPAD hybrid that will support for touch-based screens and McOS. Apple’s analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has also referred to Apple’s big foldable device as MacBook, while Ross Young has also written about Apple’s work on a notebook with a display of 18.8 inch. The Wall Street Journal In December, Apple is working on a 19 -inch MacBook with a foldable screen.
However, Gurman has referred to Apple’s large-screen foldable device as the research, as the research firm Oldia. Whether the large-screen foldable is eventually a ipad or a Mac operating system will come down in a plan to use Apple. If the device runs Macos, it will be in the Mac family, and if it runs iPados, it will be in the Oipad family. Gurman has claimed that to unite the operating system, Apple is updating some designs in iOS 19 and MacoS 16, which will pave the way for foldable devices and touchscreen Mac, so there is also a possibility of a hybrid.
In all, the details of Apple’s large foldable device are marked. This is contrary to rumors about Apple’s small book-style foldable iPhone, recently converging 2026 releases.
