Tarriff-related iPhone price increases estimated to be lower than feared



While the chaos of tariffs will make things unpredictable for some time, the latest analyst guess-work about what an iPhone 16 Pro Max could cost comes in with a much smaller increase in price than previously estimated.

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It’s about to cost a lot more money for an iPhone

The United States Trump administration levied extreme tariffs against nearly every country, territory, and island, inhabited or not. The combination of nonsensical math behind tariffs and vague exemptions that won’t apply to Apple chips makes price estimates difficult to ascertain.

A report on Monday evening from UBS, seen by AppleInsider, offers smaller price hikes compared to an earlier report. Instead of a $2,300 iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1TB of storage, the new numbers bring that price closer to $2,062.

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