iPhone 18e Could Feature Bigger Display and Battery

Apple's standard iPhone 18 and the lower-cost iPhone 18e will both feature 6.3-inch displays and use the same battery, according to the leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital."


In a new post on Weibo, the leaker shared an annotated, side-by-side diagram of the phones' purported internals, labeled "Taycan" for the ‌iPhone 18‌ and "Nevera" for the iPhone 18e. Fixed Focus Digital said the diagram was already circulating online and broadly matched what their sources had told them. They pointed to the battery as an example of the interchangeable parts they had previously described.

The diagram's annotations list a 4,430 mAh battery for both models. That would be an increase of about 21% from 3,671 mAh for the standard ‌iPhone 18‌ and about 11% from 4,005 mAh for the iPhone 18e. The notes attribute the extra room in the standard model to changes to the bottom speaker and haptic engine. The diagram also shows two rear cameras on the standard ‌iPhone 18‌, including an Ultra Wide camera, and a single rear camera on the iPhone 18e, just like previous models.

A 6.3-inch display would be a noticeable step up from the 6.1-inch screen on the iPhone 17e. Fellow Weibo leaker "Digital Chat Station" previously claimed the iPhone 18e would retain a 6.12-inch OLED display at 60Hz, along with a single 48-megapixel rear camera and a potential upgrade to the front-facing camera. The same source expects the standard iPhone 18 to retain its 6.3-inch display with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz, along with a larger battery.

In an earlier post, Fixed Focus Digital said a new chip was the only iPhone 18e upgrade they could confirm at the time and suggested the two models would share some manufacturing processes.

Digital Chat Station expects the iPhone 18e to contain Apple's 2nm A20 chip, up from the 3nm A19 in the ‌iPhone 17e‌. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said Apple's lower-end spring 2027 iPhones will pair the A20 chip with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB. Both models are also rumored to get Apple's C2 modem, which would replace the Snapdragon X80 in the iPhone 17 and the C1X in the ‌iPhone 17e‌.

The iPhone 18e is expected to launch in spring 2027 alongside the standard ‌iPhone 18‌ and second-generation iPhone Air. The ‌iPhone 17e‌ launched at $599 with 256GB of storage, and it is unclear if it will get a price increase like other iPhone models.
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