Apple has taken its top selling position in the Chinese smartphone market for the first time this year. In the latest quarter (Q4 2023), the Cupertino-based tech giant shipped 17.5 million units of iPhones in China. According to a report by Canalys, Apple's shipments increased by 6% year-on-year with an adequate supply of the new iPhone 15 series. The report also claims that the decline in the country’s smartphone market was also further reduced to 1% as the total shipments in the country reached 73.9 million units.