iPhone 18 Pro colors, more
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple testing 'deep red' color for iPhone 18 Pro, but iPhone Fold may skip the fun: report
- Apple plans M5-based Private Cloud Compute architecture for Apple Intelligence
- Two reasons helped record iPhone sales, and they're both orange
- Zuckerberg says he went to Tim Cook to discuss 'wellbeing of teens and kids'
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Monday, February 23, 26. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.7 | We are sponsored this week by Ben Q. |
| 0:12.9 | Leading off today, we have rumors about what to expect from the iPhone 18 Pro in terms of colors. |
| 0:19.2 | According to Bloomberg's Mark German, Apple is considering a new deep red color option for the 18 |
| 0:24.0 | pro this year. |
| 0:25.3 | The current iPhone 17 Pro is available in a bright, beautiful cosmic orange color, which has |
| 0:31.8 | been a huge hit, especially in China. |
| 0:35.1 | A report from the Financial Times, for example, earlier this month, |
| 0:38.8 | indicated that the cosmic orange color is one of the biggest factors driving iPhone users to update, |
| 0:44.9 | again, especially in China. Given that, German actually says that Cosmic Orange might stick |
| 0:50.5 | around for the iPhone 18 Pro this fall, so it would be available in both a deep red and a |
| 0:55.7 | cosmic orange color. The iPhone 17 Pro has a new all-aluminum unibody design, which gives Apple a lot |
| 1:03.2 | more flexibility for what colors it can use on the pro model iPhones. It's no longer limited by |
| 1:09.5 | the material of the phone, like it was during the days of |
| 1:12.4 | stainless steel and titanium, both of which are harder to color. Finally, German also comments on |
| 1:18.8 | the color options for the upcoming iPhone fold. He reports that Apple is going to stay away from |
| 1:24.2 | any sort of fun colors. Instead, we should just expect some sort of dark gray or |
| 1:29.4 | black and a variation of white or light silver. This is likely because this is Apple's first |
| 1:35.3 | ever foldable smartphone, and reducing the number of color options will help streamline manufacturing. |
| 1:41.8 | We saw the same thing play out with the iPhone 10, which only came in two colors versus |
| 1:46.7 | the six colors of the iPhone 7 before it. |
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