The first iPhone was publicly introduced on January 9, 2007, and released to customers on June 29, 2007.

Quick Scoop: Key Dates

  • Announcement: January 9, 2007 – Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco, calling it a combination of an iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator.
  • Release: June 29, 2007 – the first iPhone went on sale in the United States, with long lines forming outside Apple and AT&T stores.
  • Context: Development reportedly started around 2005 and was kept highly secret inside Apple until the 2007 reveal.

So if you’re asking “when was the first iPhone made,” people usually point to 2007—announced in January and sold from late June that year.

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