Apple has kept iPhone Ultra production details under lock and key better than it did with the iPhone Air, but at last there's a component leak. Or an over-detailed hoax.
AppleInsider has long argued that if the much-rumored folding iPhone were to be launched in September, that we should be seeing leaked components. There's now been so much other evidence that it seems inevitable, but finally there has been a component leak. Allegedly.
We won't know if these shots are really of the iPhone Ultra's motherboard until someone buys the costly device just to strip it apart. But now two seemingly separate leakers have produced different images of what do appear to be the same thing.
As first spotted by MacRumors, little-known leaker Lusi Roy has posted a 10-second video showing what is purported to be the iPhone Ultra's motherboard. The leaker has also posted still images of the motherboard, including an annotated version.
Separately, leaker "Findmeow~" on Chinese social media site Weibo has shown a graphic of what is again purported to be the motherboard. This one is also annotated, although chiefly with component numbers.
Those annotations that are more than numbers do appear to align with the ones on the Lusi Roy leak. This Weibo one, though, claims to have been produced by Mijing Tools, a Chinese iPhone repair firm.
If that's correct, it seems early for Apple to be sharing repair information with third-party companies. But then if this is a fake, it is an extremely detailed one.
Plus while one leaker has actual photos and the other has a schematic of sorts, they are of the same device. That's no guarantee that they are not both from a faked source, of course.
However, this plus how close the launch is, makes it more likely than not that these are indeed the iPhone Ultra's motherboard.
Apple is expected to announce its first folding iPhone on September 9, 2026.