Tim Cook in a previous visit to India — image credit: Apple
A new report says that Foxconn will produce double its previous annual total of iPhones in India during 2025, as Apple continues to expand in the country.
Apple has previously been reported to be aiming to use Indian factories to make 25% of its total iPhone manufacturing, by 2028. The expansion follows Apple and its suppliers working to reduce over-reliance on China as a sole manufacturing source.
According to The Times of India, Apple’s major manufacturer Foxconn is continuing this expansion with plans to produce between 25 million and 30 million iPhones across 2025. Reportedly, Foxconn has been conducting what are described as restricted testing operations at the company’s Bengaluru facility over the last three to four months.
“Last year, the company assembled about 12 million iPhones in India,” an unspecified source said. “But with their Bengaluru facility also coming up quickly, they have set their ambitions a lot higher, in line with Apple’s push to deepen their presence in India.”
“The trial runs are the first phase…,” continued the source, “to see if the plant is able to produce the phones at the scale required and without any compromise on Apple’s stringent quality standards.”
Apple does not release figures for the number of iPhones made or sold, and hasn’t for years. Estimates from market analysis firms vary, but one Canalys report claims that Apple sold 225.9 million iPhones over the full year 2024.
If that and the Indian source’s figures are correct, then in 2024, some 5.31% of all iPhones shipped were made in India. However, a previous estimate put India’s production at 7% of all iPhones in 2023.
Yet analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has reported that in 2023, India accounted for between 12% and 14% of global iPhone shipments. He forecast that the figure would rise to between 20% and 25% by 2024.
Consequently, it’s far from clear what percentage of iPhone production is truly being made in India. But regardless of its overall contribution to iPhone manufacturing, the country is seeing an expansion by Foxconn.
That expansion is certain to continue, too, as India’s government has been proposing subsidies to incentize firms to increase local manufacturing. At the same time, Apple is said to be ramping up Indian manufacturing to avoid Trump’s China tariffs.
