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Viral iPhone Fold unboxing video is a very well made fake

AppleInsider • Thu, 09 Apr 2026

A new video purporting to show the unboxing of an iPhone Fold months before it's even expected to be announced, is an excellent piece of work. It's also entirely false. Turn it on, then - image credit: Viktor Seraleev This isn't like the YouTubers who unboxed an M5 iPad Pro back in September 2025 . As unlikely as that video had seemed, it turned out to be genuine when Apple released that iPad a few weeks later. The iPhone Fold unboxing video doing the rounds is instead purporting to be of a product that has only just gone into manufacturing testing . It's also said to be having problems in that testing. Rumor Score: 💩 B#$&(*it Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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A new video purporting to show the unboxing of an iPhone Fold months before it's even expected to be announced, is an excellent piece of work.

Turn it on, then - image credit: Viktor Seraleev This isn't like the YouTubers who unboxed an M5 iPad Pro back in September 2025 .

As unlikely as that video had seemed, it turned out to be genuine when Apple released that iPad a few weeks later.

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