Were is iphone made

Where Is the iPhone Made?

It takes a village to build an iPhone

Anyone who has bought an iPhone or another Apple product has seen the note on the company’s packaging that its products are designed in California, but that doesn’t mean they’re manufactured there. Answering the question of where the iPhone is made isn’t simple.

Assembled vs. Manufactured

When trying to understand where Apple manufactures its devices, there are two key concepts that sound similar but are different: assembling and manufacturing.

Manufacturing is the process of making the components that go into the iPhone. While Apple designs and sells the iPhone, it doesn’t manufacture its components. Instead, Apple uses manufacturers from around the world to deliver individual parts. The manufacturers specialize in particular items—camera specialists manufacture the lens and camera assembly, screen specialists build the display, and so on.

Assembling, on the other hand, is the process of taking all the individual components built by specialist manufacturers and combining them into a finished, working iPhone.

The iPhone’s Component Manufacturers

Because there are hundreds of individual components in every iPhone, it’s not possible to list every manufacturer whose products are found on the phone. It’s also difficult to discern exactly where those components are made because sometimes one company builds the same component at multiple factories.

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Some of the suppliers of key or interesting parts for the iPhone 5S, 6, and 6S and where they operate, included:

• Accelerometer: Bosch Sensortech, based in Germany with locations in the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
• Audio chips: Cirrus Logic, based in the U.S. with locations in the U.K., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore
• Battery: Samsung, based in South Korea with locations in 80 countries
• Battery: Sunwoda Electronic, based in China
• Camera: Qualcomm, based in the U.S. with locations in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and more than a dozen locations through Europe and Latin America
• Camera: Sony, based in Japan with locations in dozens of countries
• Chips for 3G/4G/LTE networking: Qualcomm
• Compass: AKM Semiconductor, based in Japan with locations in the U.S., France, England, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
• Glass screen: Corning, based in the U.S., with locations in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, the U.K., and the United Arab Emirates
• Gyroscope: STMicroelectronics. Based in Switzerland, with locations in 35 countries
• Flash memory: Toshiba, based in Japan with locations in over 50 countries
• Flash memory: Samsung
• LCD screen: Sharp, based in Japan with locations in 13 countries
• LCD screen: LG, based in South Korea with locations in Poland and China
• A-series processor: Samsung
• A-series processor: TSMC, based in Taiwan with locations in China, Singapore, and the U.S.
• Touch ID: TSMC
• Touch ID: Xintec. Based in Taiwan.
• Touch-screen controller: Broadcom, based in the U.S. with locations in Israel, Greece, the U.K., the Netherlands, Belgium, France, India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea
• Wi-Fi chip: Murata, based in the U.S. with locations in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Vietnam, The Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., Germany, Hungary, France, Italy, and Finland

The iPhone’s Assemblers

The components manufactured by those companies all around the world are ultimately sent to just two companies to assemble into iPods, iPhones, and iPads. Those companies are Foxconn and Pegatron, both of which are based in Taiwan.

Technically, Foxconn is the company’s trade name; the firm’s official name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. Foxconn is Apple’s longest-running partner in building these devices. It currently assembles the majority of Apple’s iPhones in its Shenzen, China, location, although Foxconn maintains factories in countries across the world, including Thailand, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines.

Pegatron is a relatively recent addition to the iPhone assembly process. It is estimated that Pegatron built about 30 percent of the iPhone 6 orders in its Chinese plants.

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How & Where iPhone Is Made: Comparison Of Apple’s Manufacturing Process

We call it the iPhone Saga, how Apple has perfected the art of juggling the global supply chain, its nose locked on where on earth to get suppliers that can offer the most efficient and best value parts under Apple’s strict quality benchmark. This infographic comes on the heels of our editorial team’s past effort to follow the iPhone supply chain and what it means to American manufacturing.

The latest story is about the iPhone 6 using glass and not the rumored sapphire crystal. But the story is more than just the material; it’s whether the cover would be made in America or elsewhere.

When GT Advanced, the supplier of TouchID’s sapphire crystal, bumped up its facilities in Mesa, AZ, rumor had it that the iPhone 6 would feature a Made-in-the-USA sapphire crystal cover. It turned out iPhone 6 is still in glass, and it’s likely by Corning, which outsources its fabrication to Asia and France.

It appears that Apple is giving out top secrets and arming our biggest enemies with state-of-the-art technologies that can diminish our competitiveness. Foxconn, Apple’s biggest supplier, which assembles the iPhones mostly in its facilities in China, has installed robots (nicknamed Foxbots) for the first time to meet its iPhone production quotas. How ever can this company invest in advanced robotics if not for the humongous Apple orders?

But, there’s the rub. It’s rumored Apple is exploring ways to scale down costs by trying robots over Chinese workers. If that sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve seen that before. Our fathers still remember how Japanese robotics booted out many jobs in the American automotive industry. Yes, the China factory is maturing (higher wages and increasing competition from other Asian countries) and it’s inching closer to an American model. I don’t know how things will turn out in the next five years, but that it won’t stay long as it is — America outsources, China receiveth. Who knows, China might one day, under pressure to cut costs, outsource jobs to, well, us?

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iPhone is busy: Making Apple Watch ready for development

Since I upgraded to iOS 15, watchOS 8 and Xcode 13, after I turned off and on my Mac, every first time I want to launch an app from Xcode to my iPhone appear this message (even if I’m not developing for watchOS):

The Mac stays stuck on it for at least 20 minutes.

The only solution I found (until now) is to switch off WiFi on my Watch.

Is there a better solution?

Answers

You might have better luck asking this question over in Apple Support Communities run by Apple Support.

Did you try to reboot the watch ?

If that’s not enough, try to unpair the watch from iPhone and pair it again.

Toggling Aeroplane mode also works

Airplane — not working. Thousand time this ******** appear.

Having the same issue on Xcode 13.0, iOS 14.7.1 and WatchOS 7.1, also in trying to debug an iOS app (i.e. I’m not developing for WatchOS). I’ve restarted the computer, watch and phone, and unpaired / re-paired the phone from Xcode’s devices, but can’t get it to work consistently (I get stuck on «Making Apple Watch ready for development» maybe every other or every third time I try to launch the app).

Turning the watch off entirely does the trick (as I imagine airplane mode would too), but I’d like for my watch to work as well 😕

Facing this issue since Xcode 13 betas. Disabling Bluetooth in the iPhone temporarily fixes the issue for me.

With the Control Center Bluetooth icon in grey, no need to fully disable it in the Settings app.

I had the same problem, but iOS 15.0.2 / watchOS 8.0.1 no longer causes the problem.

I still have this issue in iOS 15.2 and watchOS 8.2. The issue was never gone.

This issue is driving me nuts. And for me it happens literally every time I plug in my iPhone. Unplug, plug it back in, wait 5 minutes for Xcode to make the watch ready for development. Which then usually (but not always) fails by the way! Plug it back in, and you’re just stuck waiting for 5 minutes yet again.

When it fails, I get this error:

Unable to prepare iPhone for development Could not locate the device support files.

But building an app to my iPhone still works 🤷‍♂️

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How iPhone Is Made: The Global Assembly Line

iPhone, that iconic brand that is uniquely American as hamburgers and a can of Coke. Or is it? But we already know that behind this made-in-America smartphone is a mix of other products that are made in, yes, elsewhere. Truth is, when you buy an iPhone, you’re also buying a little of something that is maybe an LG, Samsung or Sharp and myriad other commodity parts that are everything but American. This is the economics of a smartphone, one that is built on the principle of “frenemies,” an enemy is a friend for one’s sake. Apple asking Samsung for help to cut costs for example. To see the bigger picture, let’s tear down an iPhone 5, Steve Job’s last hurrah, and follow its journey from rare earth to your pocket.

Made in USA

iPhone is a genuine American product because its engineering and design are borne out of the ingenuity and skill of American developers and industrial designers in Cupertino, California, Apple’s headquarters. The battle plan to innovate and shake the smartphone industry started here in as real fashion as when, perhaps, Edison shouted eureka! after figuring out how to make a light bulb or when the Wright brothers flew the maiden flight in American soil.

Beyond the planning stage, iPhone 5 is still being made in America. Its brain, the A6 chip, is manufactured by a semiconductor company based in the US, perhaps an Intel or IBM plant or even a Samsung American subsidiary in Austin, Texas. The smartphone may be made from different countries, but it thinks as an American like you and me.

The software is also designed locally and a $500-million data center was even built in North Carolina. The radio frequency part is made by Ohio-based Triquint, the audio chip by Cirrus Logic, a Texan company and the controller chips by California-based PMC Sierra and Broadcom Corp. Evidently, the specialized parts and design are American, making the iPhone a first-rate, cutting edge product. Interestingly, the glass is developed and manufactured by a Corning plant in Kentucky, although the bulk of manufacturing has since been shipped out to the company’s plants in Japan and Taiwan.

The technical specifications aside, iPhone creates local derivative economies around it: its innovative marketing is handled by TBWA with offices in Los Angeles and New York, and its apps are written by American software companies. Apple is also one of the few companies that maintains a US-based local customer call center in Indiana, Texas and California to name a few.

Made in Mongolia

An iPhone is not only assembled in China, but it starts in that country at a much earlier stage and much deeper part of the earth. Ninety percent of rare earth minerals, naturally occurring solids whose combination comprises essential iPhone parts, are mined in China, notably in Mongolia. Although things may change soon as newer eco-friendly mining technologies will allow the US to tap its rich mineral fields.

Lanthanides, scandium, yttrium and some other alien-sounding names at the bottom of the periodic table (remember your secondary school?) make the iPhone “light, bright and loud.” Its color screen, glass polishing, circuitry, speakers and vibration unit come from a mix of these rare earth minerals.

Made in Japan, Korea, Taiwan

They are the Asian immigrants. Made in Japan, Taiwan and Korea but are married into the American product. Apple has had sourced its LCD panel from Sharp, Japan Display and LG in the past. The engineers in Korea and Japan allowed you to enjoy that smooth sensation of control when you swipe, pan, zoom out and in the iconic iPhone touchscreen. But these engineers want you to have more fun that LG has developed an in-cell display for iPhone 5. It eliminates a glass layer in between the touch pad and the liquid crystal to make the smartphone thinner and its battery life longer.

Ironically, iPhone’s microchips are made by Samsung, Apple’s mortal enemy now. Its patent scuttle with Samsung transforming into a global war, Apple is also tapping Taiwan’s TSMC and SK Hynix (formerly Hyundai) for chip-making, DRAM and flash memory to diversify its supply chain. Still, Samsung or a subsidiary is providing iPhone with rechargeable batteries.

Made in Europe

It sounds like Europe’s diminishing share of world economics, but, true, a French-Italian company based in Geneva, Switzerland, STMicroelectronics, managed to get a slice of the iPhone pie: the gyroscope used for tracking the smartphone’s orientation. STMicroelectronics is Europe’s largest semiconductor chip maker, but not large and flexible enough to compete with the Asian giants.

Made in China

When Americans protest that iPhones are made in China, they mean that it is assembled by the Chinese. The blueprint, crystal, specialized parts and processors from the US, display panels, chipsets and memory from Japan, Korea and Taiwan, gyroscope from Europe and rare earth minerals from Mongolia all come together in China, the world’s factory.

It’s a touchy issue, but the late Apple found Steve Jobs once told US President Obama that these iPhone jobs won’t be coming back to the US. And cheap labor is not the reason; it’s the economics of scale in both human resources and manufacturing facilities.

It is reported that where American companies would take months to pool thousands of industrial engineers and even more months to construct new assembly lines to accommodate a trivial but urgent change in iPhone’s spec—say, its glass panel must curve to hatch on the body six weeks prior to launching—it only takes 15 days in China. In a cutthroat industry where a fast turnaround can spell a phone’s success, China is not an option. To put it in perspective, one production line in China can assemble 72,000 iPhone 5 back plates daily; one factory can have four to five production lines and China can have as much as a hundred of these factories, opening or closing a few of them depending on the current demand. The last part—opening and closing plants like a mom-and-pop store—is almost impossible in an American economy. It is no long a city counting the number of manufacturing plants it has, but the manufacturing plant can be counted as a city in many Asian economic zones.

CONCLUSION

Hundreds of thousands of iPhones come out of Chinese factories every day. Each one is an iconic symbol of American consumerism, and each one consists of parts made in different countries. But like the US president or Albert Einstein, or Joseph Pulitzer, or Martina Navratilova, or Leoh Ming Pei or Bruce Lee, and many other great Americans who are “made” elsewhere, the iPhone is a true American in spirit. Its ideals are built on the ingenuity and competitive spirit that has made and is making this country great, be it in peace or troubled times.

Next time you get hold of your iPhone, how about saying hello to the world… from America with love.

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