--- title: "This company is India's largest smartphone exporter." description: "Apple has significantly increased its presence and local manufacturing in India, surpassing Samsung in smartphone export volumes in the June quarter." author: "Saumya Mishra" published: 2023-09-24 updated: 2023-09-25 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3350/this-company-is-india-s-largest-smartphone-exporter category: "technology" tags: ["iphone", "apple", "india"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # This company is India's largest smartphone exporter. Apple has significantly increased its presence and local [manufacturing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167329/improving-productivity-within-the-manufacturing-industry) in India, surpassing Samsung in smartphone export volumes. In the June quarter, Apple shipped 49% of the country's total 12 million shipments, compared to Samsung's 45%. This highlights Apple's rapid [expansion](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35156/this-famous-arch-contains-the-name-of-the-city-it-is-located-in-and-is-also-known-as-the-jefferson-national-expansion-memorial-in-which-city-is-this-monument-located) of local manufacturing in the country. Apple's share of exports rose from 9% in Q2 2022 to almost half in Q2 2023, according to [industry](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12767/how-big-data-is-helping-the-dark-web-industry) executives. In the March quarter of 2023, India's smartphone exports were over 13 million, but dipped to 12 million in the June quarter. ## iPhones made in India Apple has been manufacturing iPhones in India since 2017, with the [iPhone SE](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51459/why-does-your-iphone-se-keep-prompting-liquid-has-been-detected-warning-and-how-to-fix-it). The company's performance has been boosted by a ramp-up in [production](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1489/the-countries-that-dominate-world-fossil-fuel-production) by Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron since the [second half](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50143/what-challanges-did-the-us-face-in-the-second-half-of-the-19th-century) of 2022, with the production of iPhone 14 and [earlier models](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51517/how-fast-are-the-iphone-xs-iphone-xs-max-and-iphone-xr-models-compared-to-one-another-how-fast-are-they-compared-to-earlier-models). This year, Apple's latest-[generation](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300788/why-is-heart-attack-increasing-in-the-younger-generation) iPhones, iPhone 15, are available for sale in India. Foxconn is making them at the company's Sri Perumbudur plant in Chennai, [Tamil Nadu](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43778/how-can-i-get-admission-in-department-of-plant-molecular-biology-biotechnology-tamil-nadu-agricultural-university). Experts believe this aims to diversify Apple's reliance on China amid [geopolitical tensions](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/113812/how-has-the-global-economy-been-impacted-by-recent-geopolitical-tensions-and-conflicts). Tata group is also expected to start manufacturing iPhones in India by the end of this year or early next year. \ --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3350/this-company-is-india-s-largest-smartphone-exporter Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.