{"id":2087,"date":"2026-03-16T13:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/apple-planning-new-3d-printed-aluminum-chassis-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:29:35","slug":"apple-planning-new-3d-printed-aluminum-chassis-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/apple-planning-new-3d-printed-aluminum-chassis-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple planning new 3D-printed aluminum chassis for iPhone and Apple Watch: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/09\/Apple-Watch-SE-3-Series-11-Ultra-3-stack.webp?w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>With the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple introduced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/18\/apple-details-how-it-uses-3d-printing-to-build-apple-watch\/\">3D-printing manufacturing process<\/a> for the titanium shell \u2013 allowing the company to save on raw materials, improve on cost, and use 100% recycled titanium powder. The company also uses <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/18\/apple-details-how-it-uses-3d-printing-to-build-apple-watch\/\">3D printing<\/a> for the titanium version of the Apple Watch Series 11, as well as the USB-C port on iPhone Air.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the company is looking to expand that process to aluminum \u2013 allowing most Apple Watch shells to be 3D printed. Further ahead, it may even come to the iPhone, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-03-08\/apple-to-expand-ultra-lines-after-599-macbook-neo-3d-printed-aluminum-imacs-mmhpa12d\">Mark Gurman\u2019s Power On newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1042605\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/08\/apple-planning-new-3d-printed-aluminum-chassis-for-iphone-and-apple-watch-report\/#more-1042605\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple introduced a new 3D-printing manufacturing process for the titanium shell \u2013 allowing the company to save on raw materials, improve on cost, and use 100% recycled <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}