{"id":471319,"date":"2026-05-06T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:42:13","slug":"iphone-18-pro-cad-leak-reignites-the-dynamic-island-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/471319\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 18 Pro CAD Leak Reignites the Dynamic Island Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New alleged CAD renders of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 18 Pro are doing the rounds on social media, offering the latest twist in the to-shrink-or-not-to-shrink Dynamic Island saga.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/iphone-18-pro-cad@2x-scaled.jpg\"   alt=\"iphone 18 pro cad%402x scaled\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1046906\"\/><br \/>An X user called <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/earlyappleleaks\/status\/2051161824746201375?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">@earlyappleleaks<\/a> has posted the above image, claiming that &#8220;the new CAD confirms the smaller Dynamic Island of the iPhone 18 Pro.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>CAD renders are often leaked from factories and represent the technical schematics that phone manufacturers share with case makers and accessory companies months before a phone launches. Whether this particular one is kosher is unknown, since the leaker is relatively new to the scene and needs time to build a reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The last notable image they shared was of an alleged iPhone 18 Pro prototype with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/15\/iphone-18-pro-leaks-reveal-new-dynamic-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smaller Dynamic Island<\/a>, and what appears to be a Face ID sensor visible under the display. Under-display Face ID components would allow for a slimmed down Dynamic Island.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/08\/iphone-18-pro-under-display-face-id\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mixed rumors<\/a> about whether the \u200ciPhone 18 Pro\u200c models will continue to feature a \u200cDynamic Island\u200c or have a hole punch camera with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/05\/03\/iphone-18-pro-under-screen-face-id-rumor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under screen Face ID<\/a> and no \u200cDynamic Island\u200c, but the latest information suggests it&#8217;s too early to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/09\/13\/iphone-18-smaller-dynamic-island-rumor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">say goodbye to the \u200cDynamic Island\u200c<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman, several prominent leakers on Weibo and other social media sites have said Apple will make the iPhone 18 Pro&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DSCCRoss\/status\/2013628564223008849?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dynamic Island smaller<\/a>, but won&#8217;t eliminate it. We heard similar rumors about a smaller iPhone 17 Pro \u200cDynamic Island\u200c last year, but it ended up being the same size.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the \u200ciPhone 18 Pro\u200c rumors about under-display Face ID and no \u200cDynamic Island\u200c circulated earlier in 2025, so Apple either considered the feature for the 18 Pro lineup and pushed it back, or those rumors were off-base. There also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/01\/20\/iphone-18-pro-leak-smaller-dynamic-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">may have been confusion<\/a> over what&#8217;s moving under the display and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/11\/iphone-18-pro-may-not-have-a-smaller-dynamic-island-after-all\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a> the iPhone 18 Pro won&#8217;t have a smaller Dynamic Island at all, with the slimmed down Dynamic Island delayed until the iPhone 19.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll know for sure in a few months. Apple is expected to announce the \u200ciPhone 18 Pro\u200c models alongside its first foldable iPhone this fall, with the standard \u200ciPhone 18\u200c arriving early next year as part of a new split-cycle launch strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New alleged CAD renders of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 18 Pro are doing the rounds on social media, offering the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[113201,18,19,6398,17,279,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-471319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-dynamic-island","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-iphone-18-pro","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116527926633853450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}