Sales of foreign-branded mobile phones in China, including Apple, decreased by 9.7% in May compared to the previous year.
Data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) revealed that shipments of foreign phones in China dropped to 4.54 million handsets in May.
Apple, the largest foreign phone maker in China, plays a significant role in the country's overall foreign-branded phone sales, although specific figures for Apple were not provided in the CAICT data.
Meanwhile, domestic phone shipments within China also declined by 21.8% in May, totaling 23.72 million handsets.