Apple accelerated its pullback from China following a round of tariff hikes by the US, with the iPhone maker planning to assemble all smartphones for the US market in India by end-2026, the Financial Times reported.

Apple aims to make most of its iPhones sold in the United States at factories in India by the end of 2026, and is speeding up those plans to navigate potentially higher tariffs in China, its main manufacturing base,

Apple may shift all of its US iPhone production from China to India in an effort to avoid Trump's tariffs, according to a report from The Financial Times. The goal is to manufacture all 60 million iPhone devices sold to American customers in India by 2026,