China iPhone Sales Plunged in July
By Reuters | 20 Aug, 2025

Foreign branded smartphone sales fell by 31.3% year-on-year, reflecting consumer economic uncertainty combined with resentment over exorbitant US tariffs.

People check an iPhone 16 Pro as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing, China September 20, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo

Sales of foreign-branded phones, including Apple Inc's iPhone, declined 31.3% year-on-year in China in June, according to Reuters' calculations based on data released on Wednesday by a government-affiliated research firm.

The shipments of foreign-branded phones had slid to 1.971 million units in June, from 2.869 million handsets the same month a year earlier, calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed.

Overall phone sales in China fell 9.3% to 22.598 million units in June, according to the data.

(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)