Apple's budget iPhone 18e may give up less ground to the mainline phone than its predecessors did. According to the leaker known as Fixed Focus Digital, both the standard iPhone 18 and the 18e will ship with 6.3-inch displays and use the same battery — claims backed by a diagram purporting to show the internal structure of both phones.

MacRumors and AppleInsider covered the leak on Monday, with AppleInsider cautioning that the source has a mixed track record. If accurate, though, the diagram points to Apple narrowing the gap between its entry-level model and the standard phone: a bigger display and a larger battery would address two of the most common complaints about the cheaper tier.

As always with supply-chain leaks this far ahead of launch, the specifics should be treated as provisional — internal diagrams are easy to fake and components change late in development. But the direction of travel, a budget iPhone that borrows more of the standard model's hardware rather than less, tracks with how Apple has positioned the 'e' line so far. If the battery claim holds, the 18e's value proposition gets meaningfully stronger.