From cosmic orange to coffee brown? Brown, purple and burgundy will be the available colors for the iPhone 18 Pro next September if a leak from China proves to be true.
Depending on your language translator, brown could simply mean “brown” or “coffee brown,” but you get the general idea. The tidbit comes from regular leaker Digital Chat Station's post on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. The post also states that black will not be an available color for the iPhone 18 Pro.
An Apple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The iPhone 17 Pro is available in cosmic orange, deep blue and silver.
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Apple's release schedule for the iPhone 18 series has been delayed, but the latest information reports that the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Fold will be launched in September 2026. The iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will follow in spring 2027.
If Digital Chat Station's leak is true, the iPhone 18 Pro would be the first Pro edition in years without a color resembling black, white, or silver.
Here are the colors for the iPhone Pro since its launch in 2019:
2019: iPhone 11 Pro/Pro Max: Midnight Green, Space Gray, Silver, Gold
2020: iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max: Graphite, Silver, Gold, Pacific Blue
2021: iPhone 13 Pro/13 Pro Max: Graphite, Gold, Silver, Sierra Blue, Alpine Green (March 2022)
2022: iPhone 14 Pro/14 Pro Max: Space Black, Silver, Gold, Deep Purple
2023: iPhone 15 Pro/15 Pro Max: Black Titanium, White Titanium, Blue Titanium, Natural Titanium
2024: iPhone 16 Pro/16 Pro Max: Black Titanium, Natural Titanium, White Titanium, Desert Titanium
2025: iPhone 17 Pro/17 Pro Max: Cosmic Orange, Deep Blue, Silver
Not offering a black version for Pro models may seem counterintuitive, since the black titanium version of the iPhone 16 Pro Max was a best seller and black is also popular with iPhone 17 buyers. But the lack of black hasn't hurt sales of the iPhone 17 Pro.
How does Apple choose iPhone colors?
Apple has no public documentation on how it decides iPhone colors. Still, a video interview with Kaiann Han Drance, Apple's vice president of iPhone marketing, by Jessica Naziri, tech content creator at techsesh.co, sheds some light on the process.
Drance said some of the factors the design teams consider are the design of the phone itself, how it will look with certain colors, how the phone's materials take color and what Apple wants to express in this year's lineup
“With the iPhone 17 Pro, for example, these are the next level Pro phones that have unparalleled power and capability, and we thought Cosmic Orange really added to that pop,” Drance says in the video. “There's a deep blue and a silver if that's more your thing, but we just love how the three colors work together. We think they represent the pros really well.”