News Summary

• China’s Sunny Optical has reportedly begun manufacturing a key component needed to control the iris in the lenses in the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.
• Apple including a variable aperture lens in an iPhone has been expected for years, but there is now good evidence that this is the year.
• Sunny Optical needs to make the actuators now in order for LG to assemble the camera modules from around June.
• There have been false starts in past reporting on this, with the feature rumoured for previous generations of iPhone.