{"id":23049,"date":"2026-09-05T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=23049"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:13:50","slug":"spigen-may-have-just-given-us-another-clue-about-the-iphone-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/05\/spigen-may-have-just-given-us-another-clue-about-the-iphone-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Spigen May Have Just Given Us Another Clue About the iPhone Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The iPhone<\/a> Fold<\/a> has been one of those Apple rumours that just refuses<\/em> to go away<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, we\u2019ve been hearing that Apple is working on a foldable iPhone<\/strong> – and now that we\u2019re getting closer to its expected arrival, the leaks are starting to feel a little more concrete<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The latest one comes from a rather familiar name in the world of smartphone accessories: Spigen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has shared a post on X showing what appears to be an accessory made for Apple\u2019s upcoming foldable iPhone<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it doesn\u2019t exactly give us a complete look at the phone, it does give us another interesting glimpse at the design Apple could be going for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this part of the final design for iPhone Fold? – Spigen<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At first glance, there\u2019s nothing particularly dramatic about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s what makes this image quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A case has to ultimately be made around an actual set of exact dimensions. Spigen needs to know, for example, roughly how big the device is, where the cameras sit, where the buttons are and, in this case, how the whole thing folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what we\u2019re seeing here looks pretty consistent with the design we\u2019ve been hearing about for months<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The iPhone Fold is expected to use a book-style folding design<\/strong>, with a normal-ish smartphone display on the outside and a much larger screen waiting inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open it up and you\u2019re essentially turning the iPhone into a small tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s hardly a new idea these days, but Apple\u2019s version could be quite different in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It looks increasingly like this is the design<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve now seen enough leaks and rumours pointing in the same direction that the overall shape of the iPhone Fold is becoming easier to imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than going for an unusual or experimental design, Apple appears to be taking a fairly familiar approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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iPhone Fold concept – Google<\/a>\/Future<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And honestly, I think that makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple has had years to watch Samsung, Google and others figure out what works with foldable phones. It has also had plenty of time to see what doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when Apple finally enters the market, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the philosophy is basically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take a foldable phone and make it feel like an iPhone.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s probably easier said than done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are still plenty of questions around durability, the crease, thickness, weight and, of course, the software experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the hardware itself is starting to feel much less mysterious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigen\u2019s post is another little piece of the puzzle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wouldn\u2019t take this as absolute confirmation that we\u2019ve just seen the final iPhone Fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company copied the format and style of newly appointed CEO, John Ternus’s underrated first tweet<\/a> to announce the (possible) new accessory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Accessory makers work with information well before products reach the public, and designs can change wildly during their final development stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Spigen is also not some random account posting a blurry photograph of a phone-shaped object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a major accessory company, and if this really is an iPhone Fold accessory, it suggests the company has a pretty good idea of what Apple\u2019s hardware is going to look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s probably the most intriguing part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve already had alleged pricing from Australia<\/a>, reports about potential pre-order dates and a growing collection of renders and dummy units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019re starting to see accessories enter the picture too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, the iPhone Fold doesn\u2019t feel quite so much like a product that exists only in Apple\u2019s rumour mill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It feels like a product that is actually getting ready to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, Apple hasn\u2019t shown us anything yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if these leaks are anywhere close to the truth, we might already have a pretty good idea of what the first foldable iPhone is going to look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after all these years, I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing whether the real thing lives up to the hype<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The iPhone Fold has been one of those Apple rumours that just refuses to go away. For years, we\u2019ve been hearing that Apple is working on a foldable iPhone – and now that we\u2019re getting closer to its expected arrival, the leaks are starting to feel a little more concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,16],"tags":[3571,4,934,3501,3572,3541,1598,3568,3570],"class_list":["post-23049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-iphone","tag-accessory","tag-apple","tag-apple-event","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-cases","tag-iphone-fold","tag-rumor","tag-sep-9","tag-spigen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23054,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23049\/revisions\/23054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}