A 30 December 2025 rumour claims the iPhone Fold will have a limited supply after launch in 2026, pushing some customers to wait until 2027 (or the second coming of Steve Jobs) for the privilege of mortgaging their organs to the bonfire of Apple vanity.

The same whisper says the targeted price will be less than $2,000, which the Tame Press is doing its best to spin as "cheap" and "good news."

For those who came in late, Job’s Mob has been trying to create a crease-free foldable for ages by waiting for its rivals to do all the R&D and see what will work. The downside of this is that it has left Apple far behind in a market which, face it, is fairly niche.

But all this has left Apple far behind, much like it dropped the ball on AI, driverless cars, and other vaporware it claimed to be inventing. So, while the Tame Apple Press nagged, Jobs' Mob promised it would have a foldable in the shops by the end of 2026. This was far enough away for the faithful to believe that Apple was still on the ball, without requiring any product to arrive.

However, it now looks like Apple may not even meet the end-of-2026 target, at least in any meaningful numbers.

According to a post on yeux1122’s blog, supply will be scarce, though it does not bother with unit numbers, because rumours love vagueness almost as much as Cupertino loves margin. The Tame Apple Press claims the delay is due to Apple's strict testing and that the supply chain is not fully aligned on parts and assembly. That would be fine had Apple not taken so long to get to this point.

There is more chatter about design compromises, too, including Face ID potentially being binned in favour of a side-mounted Touch ID sensor to make the device thinner. Job’s Mob has always been keen on calling it “innovation” when it is really just moving the furniture around.

Earlier talk put the MSRP at $2,399, but this latest claim drags it to less than $1,999, which still lands squarely in “are you having a laugh” territory. The piece floats the idea that any per-unit pain could be offset by future iPhone demand, which is the sort of maths you do when the product is not ready.

It then repeats a separate report that Job’s Mob may shuffle launches so that the base iPhone 18 arrives in the first half of 2027, and that it is reportedly called the iPhone 20. The dark satanic rumour mill claims this could “maximise visibility” for the foldable, which sounds like a fancy way of saying it cannot stand on its own.