Tipster OvO has posted a picture of what seems just like the iPhone 16 Professional‘s retail field label on the Chinese language social networking web site Weibo. The label seems to substantiate that Professional fashions will likely be manufactured in India in a primary for Apple.
OvO has a restricted observe report, so deal with this leak with a little bit of skepticism.
In a bid to scale back its reliance on China, Apple has steadily been diverting manufacturing to India, although the majority of iPhones are nonetheless assembled in China.
Beforehand, solely the usual fashions had been produced in India, with Apple making a public show of confidence in India’s potential to fabricate new fashions final 12 months by promoting India-made commonplace iPhone 15 variants on launch day for the primary time.
Apple will begin producing the Professional fashions in India this 12 months with the assistance companions Foxconn, Pegatron India, and the Tata Group. The made-in-India iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max will reportedly not be obtainable at launch although and are not anticipated to hit the cabinets till after just a few weeks of the worldwide launch, which ought to happen someday in September.
Apple has been making an attempt to scale back its reliance on China and monetary incentives provided by the Indian authorities are definitely serving to. Within the fiscal 12 months ended March 2024, 14 % of iPhones had been made in India.
Because the demand for the Professional fashions is modest in India attributable to their excessive costs, nearly all of the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max variants assembled within the nation will likely be exported to the US, the Center East, and Europe.
