[Shank]

Part of it could be legal. I don’t want to say this is likely in any way, but the bottom of every XR page says this:

> iPhone XR has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. iPhone XR is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.

It could be that they aren’t wanting to imply that they’ve given out review units or other demo units in violation of not having approval.

I’m not saying it’s super likely, but it’s also not impossible.

[bfred_it]

This is the only reasonable explanation. If they fail to release it for any reason, they don’t want apps to mention a phone that never existed (especially if, say, they don’t have the rights to the name)

[village-idiot]

This is far from the only reasonable explanation. The reasonable explanation is that Apple doesn’t want devs claiming compatibility with a device that they can’t have possibly tested on yet.