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• Macworld reports that leaked details about the upcoming Apple iPhone Ultra suggest the device may come in silver and a deep blue Indigo color option.
• The leaks also point to a unique horizontal camera bar design, with anti-scratch and water-resistant protection for the lenses.
• The iPhone Ultra is expected to debut at Apple’s September event, making it one of the most anticipated announcements of the year.

It’s widely expected that Apple will announce its first folding phone at next month’s iPhone event, and the leaks keep coming. The latest comes courtesy of Sonny Dickson on Bluesky, who posts two photos that give us a look at the colors Apple has chosen.

Dickson shares a pair of photos that reportedly show the iPhone Ultra camera protector. The shape matches the leaks: a horizontal rounded bar with holes for two cameras, a microphone, and the flash. The packaging says the part is anti-fingerprint, anti-collision, anti-scratch, and anti-water, as well as supporting anti-reflection and auto-focus lenses. The package doesn’t name the iPhone Ultra, but merely says it is for “IP 2026.”

More interesting are the presumed colors for the parts. One is silver, which suggests a white model, but the other appears to be a deep shade of blue, either Dark Blue like the iPhone 17 Pro or Midnight like the MacBook Air.  Back in April, Macworld reported that Apple was working on an Indigo option for its folding phone similar to the MacBook Neo. It’s hard to tell from the photo which shade of blue the iPhone Ultra will match, but this is the closest we’ve gotten to confirmation of blue instead of black.

Apple’s first dark blue phone was the Midnight iPhone 13 in 2021 and was inspired by the volcanic rock Basalt, according to Evans Hankey, Apple’s then-vice president of industrial design, who has since left the company. The color has since been used on Macs, HomePods, and AirPods.

Apple is expected to unveil the folding iPhone Ultra at its iPhone event in September. Stay tuned to Macworld for all the latest news and rumors leading up to the event.