Power On<\/a> newsletter, Gurman made several points. <\/p>\n\u201cApple\u2019s September iPhone events tend to follow a familiar playbook: They\u2019re usually held on the first Tuesday or Wednesday after Labor Day, giving Apple enough time to get the new phones on sale by mid-September, lock in a couple of weeks of fourth-quarter revenue and stock the channel ahead of the holiday season,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Analyzing Apple’s Historical September Cadence<\/p>\n
The exact calendar date changes most years.<\/p>\n
Labor Day falls, as you know, on the first Monday of September and therefore must be between Sept. 1 and Sept. 7. So, you\u2019d have thought there would be some years when the keynote would be on Sept. 2 or Sept. 3, for instance. In fact, in the last 10 years the keynote has never been held earlier than Sept. 7, so Apple often holds the event in the week after Labor Day, not the day after.<\/p>\n
This year, Labor Day is the latest possible date, Monday, Sept. 7. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat cadence is carefully mapped out by Apple\u2019s marketing, finance and operations teams, and there\u2019s little reason to think this year will be any different,\u201d Gurman went on. I agree that this year will follow the regular schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith that in mind, the most likely date for the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and foldable iPhone is Sept. 8, with Sept. 9 as the runner-up. It\u2019s hard to see it landing anywhere else,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n
Why Tuesday, Sept. 8 Is A Non-Starter For iPhone 18 Pro<\/p>\n
Keynotes don\u2019t routinely fall the day after a public holiday.<\/p>\n
I think Gurman has the right week \u2014 it\u2019s still possible Apple could hold off until Monday, Sept. 14 if something went awry in production, for instance, but I think that\u2019s highly unlikely.<\/p>\n
But I think Tuesday, Sept. 8 is not right. Since the Monday is a public holiday, and Apple flies press in from around the U.S. (and the world) for the keynote, the company doesn\u2019t like to bust into that holiday for those guests, or indeed its staff. <\/p>\n
As such, Sept. 8 is a non-starter, I\u2019d say. The second date Gurman mentions, Wednesday, Sept. 9, is the one that I believe is secretly marked in Cupertino calendars.<\/p>\n
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Release Schedule<\/p>\n
Other key elements leading up to the iPhone\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
Once the keynote is announced, however, everything else will fall into place with a rigorous smoothness. Whether the keynote is on Wednesday, Sept. 9 as I predict, or the day before, as Gurman favors, pre-orders will open on the following Friday, which this year is Sept. 11. <\/p>\n
The timing could differ from previous years but is most likely to be 5 a.m. Pacific, which is 8 a.m. Eastern and 1 p.m. British Summer Time, for instance. It\u2019s the same moment wherever you are in the globe so everybody has the same chance to snag their chosen model at the same time. <\/p>\n
Similarly, the next moment in the timetable, the general release of iOS 27, the software which will run on the new models but also on iPhones right back to the iPhone 11, will probably happen on Monday, Sept. 14 (though this could move by a day or two). <\/p>\n
Next up is the date that the reviews go live, which is probably going to be Tuesday, Sept. 15 or Wednesday, Sept. 16. If the keynote is the Wednesday as I suspect, it\u2019s possible that reviews will appear on the second of these days to allow press a little longer to appraise the new devices. <\/p>\n
Note that the latest indication is that the first foldable iPhone will be announced at the same keynote as the Pro and Pro Max, but may be held back for a later release. If so. The reviews of the foldable will come later, too. It\u2019s not clear how much of a delay there will be \u2014 if any \u2014 but that will be announced at the keynote. <\/p>\n
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Predicted Onsale Date<\/p>\n
When the iPhones will reach customers seems as clear as ever, though.<\/p>\n
You can read a full schedule of what I expect to happen when this fall here<\/a>. The good news is that either way, the release date for the iPhone 18 Pro will be the same: the Friday in the week after the keynote. This year, that means Friday, Sept. 18. <\/p>\nOf course, if Apple\u2019s keynote is the week after, then the release date will be, too. But, as Gurman points out, that interrupts Apple\u2019s planned cadence, and means sales will be delayed in the run-up to the important holiday season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max \u2014 when will the next model arrive? NurPhoto via Getty Images July 6…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":917620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[370602,370608,370605,370609,370603,370600,370604,370601,370607,370606,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-917619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple-autumn-keynote-timeline","tag-consumer-electronics-shipping-window","tag-cupertino-event-logistics-management","tag-fourth-quarter-financial-revenue-optimization","tag-iphone-18-pro-max-launch-date","tag-iphone-18-pro-release-schedule","tag-iphone-ultra-foldable-announcement","tag-mark-gurman-bloomberg-leak","tag-post-labor-day-travel-constraints","tag-retail-onsale-shelf-target","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116876301093215981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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