Apple is manufacturing all four of its iPhone 17 models in India forward of subsequent month’s launch, in accordance with Bloomberg. That marks a primary for the corporate, because it tries to mitigate the consequences of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on merchandise produced in China.
The manufacturing is going down at 5 Indian factories. Tata Group is managing half of the manufacturing in new vegetation within the southern state Tamil Nadu and Taiwan’s Foxconn will likely be manufacturing iPhones close to the Bangalore airport.
Apple did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
Apple will launch its 4 iPhone 17 fashions someday in September (take a look at all the rumored iPhone 17 features) in what often is the final iteration of the corporate’s typical late-summer product launches. Apple reportedly will start two-phase rollouts in 2026.
India has change into the No. 1 maker of smartphones shipped to the US, and its iPhone manufacturing there jumped 63% (to $7.5 billion in exports) within the second quarter of 2025 as Apple has maneuvered by the brand new panorama of US tariffs.
Sanyam Chaurasia, principal analyst at Omdia, known as it “a watershed second” in international smartphone manufacturing. He famous that the growing manufacturing in India has been centered on mature telephone fashions and people meant for export.
“China will stay central for Apple’s flagship innovation and base fashions. Nonetheless, the development is obvious: The middle of gravity in iPhone manufacturing is tilting towards a multicountry mannequin,” Chaurasia mentioned.
Early this yr, CEO Tim Prepare dinner mentioned that Apple could be transferring practically all of its assembly of US-bound iPhones to India to keep away from tariff penalties. Chaurasia mentioned there was a 27% enhance in US-bound iPhones made in India from the primary half of 2024 to the primary half of 2025.
Nonetheless, China will nonetheless be the highest producer (by far) of iPhones to non-US markets.
“Apple is not abandoning China, however it’s de-risking by constructing parallel provide chains, and India has emerged as essentially the most vital different,” mentioned Chaurasia.
