Apple has affirmed it’s intending to launchits new iPhones a little in the not so distant future. “Last year we started selling new iPhones in late September, this year we expect supply to be available a few weeks later,” said Apple CFO Luca Maestri in a profit call with speculators today.

Maestri didn’t uncover why the current year’s iPhone supply is deferred or obliged, however bits of gossip about an iPhone delay have been circling for months. The Wall Street Journal detailed not long ago that Apple had postponed large scale manufacturing of its up and coming iPhone handsets by around a month. Qualcomm likewise indicated an iPhone defer not long ago, featuring an “partial impact from the delay of a global 5G flagship phone launch” for its final quarter projections.

Apple regularly discloses its annual iPhone refresh in September and starts delivering gadgets before the month’s end. It’s not satisfactory if gadgets won’t be prepared until October, yet Apple could at present decide to uncover its new handsets during an occasion in September.

This isn’t the first occasion when that Apple has postponed transporting an iPhone. The iPhone X was declared close by the iPhone 8 in September 2017, yet it didn’t show up in stores until November because of creation issues. Apple’s iPhone XR was likewise declared in September 2018, and it hit stores in October after reports recommended Apple was having issues with LCD display production.