02:38 PM EDT, 08/20/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Apple's ( AAPL ) iPhone and other foreign-branded phones had June sales to China that dropped 31.3% from a year earlier, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing calculations based on data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

The shipments to China fell to 1.971 million units in June from about 2.869 million a year earlier, according to the report.

Overall phone sales in China declined 9.3% in June to almost 22.6 million units, the report said.

Apple ( AAPL ) did not immediately reply to a request for comment from MT Newswires.

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