A new iPhone 18e leak from China says the phone will get a 6.3-inch display and a 4,430mAh battery. That screen would be larger than the 6.1-inch display on the iPhone 17e, and the battery would grow by about 10% from the 4,005mAh figure in the leak.
Leaker Fixed Focus Digital shared an annotated internal layout of the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e in a Weibo post on November 7 and said channel checks put it close to the real layout. He had said earlier that the two phones share some parts, and the battery is the clearest example in this layout.
The iPhone 18e leak shows a 4,430mAh battery on both phones
Taycan is the internal name of the iPhone 18 and Nevera is the internal name of the iPhone 18e, and both carry the same 4,430mAh battery. For the iPhone 18, that is up from 3,671mAh, a gain of about 20% that the leaker says comes from dropping the physical SIM tray and reshaping the bottom speaker and haptic motor.
The iPhone 18e uses the iPhone 18 battery design, which would lift its capacity by about 10% from 4,005mAh to 4,430mAh. For comparison, Apple rates the iPhone 17e for up to 26 hours of video playback.
A 6.3-inch iPhone 18e display conflicts with an earlier leak
Fixed Focus Digital says both phones use 6.3-inch screens, the same size Digital Chat Station expects on the iPhone 18 display. Digital Chat Station gave the iPhone 18e a 6.12-inch display in October, and the iPhone 17e has a 6.1-inch OLED today, so the two leakers disagree on whether Apple’s cheapest iPhone gets bigger.
The iPhone 18 gets two rear cameras, an ultra wide and a main camera, while the iPhone 18e keeps a single rear camera with no ultra wide. A single camera matches the 48-megapixel rear camera Digital Chat Station listed for the iPhone 18e, and the iPhone 17e already uses one 48-megapixel Fusion camera.
Rumors still give the iPhone 18e an A20 chip and a spring launch
Digital Chat Station expects the iPhone 18e to run the 2nm A20 chip, up from the 3nm A19 in the iPhone 17e. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects 9GB of RAM on Apple’s lower-end spring 2027 iPhones, up from 8GB.
The iPhone 18e is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone Air 2. The iPhone 17e now starts at $699 for 256GB after Apple’s price increase.
