OK so I've been slightly obsessed with the size of the upcoming iPhone fold since it was rumoured that the outer screen would be 5.5" and I wanted to know how it compared to my beloved iPhone mini.
One article the other day suggested an exact resolution and sizes for screens so that let me sketch out the device, using these as a fix and working my way outwards. I've done two or three versions of this over the last month and this is my latest, based on all the collated rumours with a little bit of artistic licence. Apologies, there's a lot of images here. I don't expect it will look exactly like this, but I think I got the size pretty close now.
Animated gif comparing a 16 pro max silhouette and 13 mini silhouette:
EDIT 4: (28th January 2026)
A little while ago I did an update to the design to make it look more like the iPhone Air. This is probably a more likely design direction. I haven't yet updated these renders to the new rumoured size (5.3") - it's just an aesthetic change for now. When I get my act together I'll update the size too, but at least this might give a better picture of what the design might look like. I've also watermarked them so there's no confusion where they came from.
Comparison with 13 mini and 17 Pro Max
I've popped the old images behind this spoiler warning because I think it's is less likely to look like the old renders and didn't want to clutter this post with loads of old images. I also didn't want to completely erase it so you're welcome to take a peek at the old ones below:
One article the other day suggested an exact resolution and sizes for screens so that let me sketch out the device, using these as a fix and working my way outwards. I've done two or three versions of this over the last month and this is my latest, based on all the collated rumours with a little bit of artistic licence. Apologies, there's a lot of images here. I don't expect it will look exactly like this, but I think I got the size pretty close now.
Animated gif comparing a 16 pro max silhouette and 13 mini silhouette:
EDIT 4: (28th January 2026)
A little while ago I did an update to the design to make it look more like the iPhone Air. This is probably a more likely design direction. I haven't yet updated these renders to the new rumoured size (5.3") - it's just an aesthetic change for now. When I get my act together I'll update the size too, but at least this might give a better picture of what the design might look like. I've also watermarked them so there's no confusion where they came from.
Comparison with 13 mini and 17 Pro Max
I've popped the old images behind this spoiler warning because I think it's is less likely to look like the old renders and didn't want to clutter this post with loads of old images. I also didn't want to completely erase it so you're welcome to take a peek at the old ones below:
Assorted comparisons with a 15 Pro max and 12 mini (the only two other 3D models I had to hand) -
Closed:
Open:
Stacked:
(note the need for a sharp corner on the left edge to accommodate the opening screen - bad luck left handed users)
Assorted shots:
A midnight colourway test:
Some animated renders:
EDIT:
a mock-up of the device with a keyboard in a 'laptop' orientation and an aluminium camera bump since that's been seen in some of the recent dummy models:
EDIT 2:
I was asked to do a quick comparison with an iPad mini, which makes a lot of sense. I don't know why I didn't think of it before (I know why - I'm just iPhone mini obsessed) I decided to line it up with the screen on the bottom left corner, because it turns out this rumoured fold is a fair bit smaller than an iPad mini and screen size is probably what people are most interested in.
Although the overall size of this iPad mini is 195.4mm x 134.8mm, I can't vouch for the exact precision of the modelling of its screen size, since I just grabbed it off the internet. None-the-less, in this model the iPad mini screen is 16.5mm wider and 2.9mm taller than the screen in my iPhone fold mock-up.
EDIT 3:
A couple of people have asked about the wallpaper, it's just the default wallpaper for MacOS Monterey.
https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/
Closed:
Open:
Stacked:
(note the need for a sharp corner on the left edge to accommodate the opening screen - bad luck left handed users)
Assorted shots:
A midnight colourway test:
Some animated renders:
EDIT:
a mock-up of the device with a keyboard in a 'laptop' orientation and an aluminium camera bump since that's been seen in some of the recent dummy models:
EDIT 2:
I was asked to do a quick comparison with an iPad mini, which makes a lot of sense. I don't know why I didn't think of it before (I know why - I'm just iPhone mini obsessed) I decided to line it up with the screen on the bottom left corner, because it turns out this rumoured fold is a fair bit smaller than an iPad mini and screen size is probably what people are most interested in.
Although the overall size of this iPad mini is 195.4mm x 134.8mm, I can't vouch for the exact precision of the modelling of its screen size, since I just grabbed it off the internet. None-the-less, in this model the iPad mini screen is 16.5mm wider and 2.9mm taller than the screen in my iPhone fold mock-up.
EDIT 3:
A couple of people have asked about the wallpaper, it's just the default wallpaper for MacOS Monterey.
https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/
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