Apple has reportedly ramped up orders for vapor chambers, signaling that the cooling technology could play a bigger role across its future hardware lineup. Here are the details.

Apple doubles down on vapor chamber cooling

Leaker Fixed Focus Digital has published a post on Weibo claiming that Apple has “significantly increased its total orders for vapor chambers,” adding that this is “possibly in preparation for enhanced cooling in its first foldable iPhone and the next-generation 20th-anniversary model.”

Apple first introduced vapor chamber cooling with the iPhone 17 Pro, a change that helped address the thermal concerns that had affected previous models.

Vapor chambers work by evaporating a small amount of liquid near a heat source and condensing it in cooler areas, spreading heat across a larger surface before returning the liquid to repeat the cycle.