{"id":672670,"date":"2026-09-04T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672670\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:28:15","slug":"iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-ultra-release-date-and-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/672670\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra: Release Date and Pre-Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple has announced that it will be holding an event on Wednesday, September 9<\/a> at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, with the company widely expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, its first-ever foldable iPhone Ultra, and more.<\/p>\n

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Now that we know the event date, we can make an educated guess about when iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders will begin, but there is a bit of a wrinkle this year. Typically, pre-orders begin on the first Friday after the iPhone event, but this year that would be Friday, September 11, which marks the 25th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Apple has a history of respecting 9\/11. For example, when the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus event fell on Wednesday, September 9 in 2015, pre-orders for those devices began on Saturday, September 12 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time, instead of on Friday, September 11. Likewise, it has been rumored<\/a> that iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max pre-orders will begin on Saturday, September 12 at 12 a.m. Pacific Time this year.<\/p>\n

In any case, the most likely release date for the iPhone 18 Pro models is Friday, September 18.<\/p>\n

iPhone Ultra<\/p>\n

According to Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, pre-orders for the foldable iPhone may begin after pre-orders for the iPhone 18 Pro models<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kuo said manufacturing challenges have limited early production of the foldable iPhone, which is rumored to be named iPhone Ultra. As a result, he believes the device may launch at some point after the iPhone 18 Pro models.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Apple unveiled the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X on September 12. iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus pre-orders began just three days later, while iPhone X pre-orders began six weeks later on Friday, October 27. Likewise, Kuo believes the foldable iPhone may not be available to pre-order until the fourth quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has announced that it will be holding an event on Wednesday, September 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,19,6398,200204,17,279,82],"class_list":["post-672670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-iphone-18-pro","tag-iphone-ultra","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117214191349066715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672670","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=672670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}