Apple iPhone 18 Pro: Translation error may have caused completely inaccurate leaks

It does not happen frequently, but in this case the punch-hole leaks regarding the iPhone 18 Pro were apparently based on a more or less simple translation error. These resulted in large number of render images and even a video from a prominent leaker which illustrated how the front of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max could look. These pictures imagined a punch-hole on the upper left side instead of a wide Dynamic Island in the center of the display.

Now, a fairly well-known Chinese leaker has clarified this situation. Apparently, these rumors were based on misinterpreted leaks from China and Korea that involved an infrared sensor that’s hidden under the display in the upper left area of the screen. Just last week, we reported on posts from Digital Chat Station, who mentioned a smaller Dynamic Island but did not explicitly refer to a punch-hole like those commonly seen on Android phones. Anyhow, it looks like this rather controversial display design with a punch-hole in the upper left corner will never come to fruition.

Instead, illustrations from Setsuna Digital on Weibo show what the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max could actually look like. Thanks to the invisibly placed infrared sensor in the upper left corner of the display, the Dynamic Island with the front camera in the center will be noticeably narrower, but it will most likely remain pill-shaped and centered. One of the latest iPhone 18 Pro render images above visualizes this presumably far less controversial design change of the next Apple flagship phones.