iPhone made in USA? Nearly 100 parts now are, but not the phone

No. The iPhone is not assembled in the United States. Apple’s long-running answer to that criticism is that many of the parts come from American manufacturers, and Tuesday’s announcement puts a number on it: nearly 100 components in its two newest premium phones are produced by US companies in more than a dozen states.

The work sits under Apple’s American Manufacturing Program, launched in 2025 as part of a $600 billion, four-year pledge to invest in US manufacturing and innovation by the end of 2029. By Apple’s count, it buys from suppliers in every one of the 50 states, backing more than 450,000 jobs in America. Apple CEO John Ternus also promoted the announcement in a post on X.

Apple named one new partner and expanded work with another.

• Perryman Company (Pennsylvania). Apple is committing up to $100 million over three years. Perryman melts, forges and rolls titanium at its site in Houston, Pennsylvania, and will supply the grade 5 titanium used in the iPhone Duo’s enclosure. Grade 5 is a strong titanium alloy, and the metal Perryman supplies contains at least 80% recycled material.
• Qnity Electronics (Delaware). Qnity joined the program in March and will produce specialized films in America for the adjustable aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro’s 48MP main camera, which Apple calls the Fusion camera.

That variable aperture is the headline camera feature of the iPhone 18 Pro. The aperture is the opening that lets light into the lens. The phone adjusts it automatically, opening wider in dim light and adjusting in bright scenes for sharper detail. Apple calls it the most advanced camera system it has made.

Apple chief operating officer Sabih Khan said the company is proud to be expanding its program and supporting “U.S. jobs.”

Apple also listed progress at five existing US suppliers. Together they show which parts of an iPhone are now most American:

• Screen glass from Kentucky. Corning, an Apple partner since the first iPhone in 2007, makes specialty glass including Ceramic Shield in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. By the end of 2026, Apple says all the cover glass for every iPhone, including the Duo, and every Apple Watch sold worldwide will come from that one plant.
• Chips from Arizona. TSMC’s Arizona plant will make more than 100 million chips for Apple products in 2026, used in iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Construction on its north campus is continuing.
• Radio parts from Colorado. Broadcom is expanding its Fort Collins facility under a $1.5 billion investment announced in July, making radio frequency components that help devices connect to networks. The multiyear deal covers more than 15 billion US-made chips.
• Face ID lasers from Texas. Coherent supplies the laser technology behind Face ID from Sherman, Texas. It also supports features including the redesigned Dynamic Island on the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max.
• Chip packaging in Arizona. Amkor Technology broke ground on a large chip packaging and testing plant in Peoria, Arizona, in September 2025. Apple is lined up as one of its earliest customers, and Amkor expects more than 3,500 local hires across the plant’s first two phases.

You won’t see a price change or a “Made in USA” sticker from this. Apple didn’t link the announcement to iPhone prices, and none of the components named change how your phone works.

The practical effect is on supply. Chips and cover glass are bottleneck parts: if they run short, phones don’t ship. Making more of them closer to home can cut shipping delays and reduce the risk of trade-policy surprises, which could make launch seasons more predictable.

There’s a catch. When all of the world’s iPhone cover glass comes from a single Kentucky plant, any problem there affects every buyer, everywhere. Concentrating a must-have part in one place makes supply simpler to manage but riskier when something goes wrong.

Apple regularly faces accusations that the iPhone isn’t made in America, and these announcements are its rebuttal. Each new partner adds a US factory, jobs and a domestic source for a critical material, which helps Apple’s case with politicians and customers alike.

Apple is also using its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, Texas, a 20,000-square-foot site that opened in August, where Apple engineers teach smaller manufacturers skills like final assembly and circuit board design. The same building holds Apple’s AI server factory, and Apple plans to start building the Mac mini there this year.

Final iPhone assembly is the piece still missing. Until that moves, the honest label is “iPhone with a lot of American parts.”