One of the questions Apple watchers have is about the colors of the next product. A new report claims to know what the iPhone 18 Pro colors will include — and it’s an unprecedented change.
The First-Ever Red iPhone Pro?
The iPhone 18 Pro could be the first ever iPhone to launch in red. But wait, I hear you say, there have been red iPhones before. Absolutely, but never a Pro model and rarely when that year’s iPhone first launched.
“The first red iPhone arrived as a mid-cycle release version of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. You could buy the newest iPhone in red, but not in the first six months of that model’s availability,” 9to5Mac reported.
The same thing happened the following year for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus — red came later, not at the original release.
While the iPhone XR had red as one of its options from day one, that didn’t apply to the high-end iPhone XS.
From Muted Tones To Cosmic Orange
The Pro models have, until this year, tended towards quieter colors, such as Forest Green, Deep Purple and muted shades.
All that changed last September with the introduction of the modestly-named Cosmic Orange. A bright, feisty color, it came as a surprise to many and offered an all-new way to think about iPhone colors.
The first mention of the red iPhone 18 Pro came from Bloomberg, which suggested that Apple will handle red in a serious way. “Apple is now considering a deep red color for its next lineup. Given the success of orange, I wouldn’t be surprised if the company keeps that option around and just adds the red as an additional choice. But red and orange might be a little too close on the color wheel to have both. We’ll see how this plays out exactly, but I can at least tell you that, as of now, red is the new flagship color in testing for the next iPhone Pros,” Mark Gurman said.
For the record, I don’t believe the hero color, Cosmic Orange, will be held over for a second year.
As other reports have noted, the colors for next fall will almost certainly have been decided on, but we’ll see.