The most recent Apple Store to open anywhere is Apple Sainte-Catherine in Montreal, which Apple’s own newsroom announced on January 16, 2026. Apple’s store-news page has listed no store opening since. That page is the only record Apple publishes of where and when a physical Apple Store has opened, and right now it names nothing coming next.
That is a sharp change of pace from the year before. Apple opened multiple stores across 2025, on a schedule that ran through the autumn. Reading the two years side by side, using only what Apple itself has published, is the clearest way to see how much retail expansion has actually happened.
Key facts
| Detail | What Apple has published |
|---|---|
| Most recent opening | Apple Sainte-Catherine, Montreal |
| Opening date | January 16, 2026 |
| Source | Apple’s newsroom store-news topic page |
| 2026 store-news items published in total | Two, and one of them is the Apple Upgrade financing launch, not a store |
| Next opening named | None |
2025, for comparison
| Store | Opening date |
|---|---|
| Apple Miami Worldcenter | January 24, 2025 |
| Apple Ginza, Tokyo (reopening) | September 26, 2025 |
| Apple Sainte-Catherine, Montreal | January 16, 2026 |
Apple’s own releases describe the Ginza store as a reopening rather than a brand-new location, following renovation of an existing site in Tokyo’s Ginza district. Miami Worldcenter and Montreal’s Sainte-Catherine are both listed as new locations. Between the Miami opening in January 2025 and the Montreal opening a year later, Apple’s published store-news page names three retail milestones. It has named none since.
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What the store-news page actually contains this year
Apple’s newsroom groups retail announcements under a single store-news topic page, and 2026 has produced only two entries there. One is the Montreal opening. The other, published March 12, 2026, is “Apple to celebrate 50 years of thinking different,” a companywide anniversary post rather than a retail one. A separate July 28, 2026 release covers the launch of Apple Upgrade, its Klarna-backed leasing program, which touches retail financing but is not a store opening either.
That leaves exactly one confirmed physical store opening in 2026 as of this week, against three in the prior twelve months. Apple has not published an explanation for the slower pace, and this brief does not speculate about one. The company’s retail strategy, beyond what it has stated in these releases, is not something Apple has published either.
Apple’s own description of the Ginza reopening frames it as a renovation of an existing location in one of Tokyo’s best-known shopping districts, rather than an expansion into new ground. That distinction matters for anyone counting stores: a reopening restores a location Apple already operated, while Miami Worldcenter and Sainte-Catherine each added a new address to Apple’s retail footprint. By that stricter count, Apple added two new store addresses across all of 2025 and 2026 combined, plus one renovation, based on what its own newsroom has published.
A separate pipeline exists for Saudi Arabia, where Apple has said it plans to open flagship locations but has not yet confirmed one is open. That pipeline is documented enough to merit its own account of what Apple has and has not said, rather than a single paragraph here.
Where this sits against the rest of Apple’s year
The retail pace question arrives in the same week that Apple’s September 9 event put a full new lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12 and AirPods 5, into pre-order this week, ahead of the September 18 in-store date. Whatever stores exist today, including Montreal’s, will carry that lineup starting then. Apple’s store-news page does not say whether any additional locations will be ready in time, because it names no additional locations at all right now. That question sits alongside a separate one this week: iOS 27 reaches eligible devices Monday, regardless of how many stores are open to sell them.
What Apple has not said
- Any store opening after Montreal on January 16, 2026.
- Any explanation for the change in pace between 2025 and 2026.
- A store count, either globally or by country, tied to a 2026 date.
- Any closure to set against these openings. Apple’s store-news page records openings, not closures.
As of Saturday, September 12, 2026, Apple’s newsroom store-news page still lists Montreal as the most recent opening and names nothing after it. This article will only update if Apple itself publishes something new there.
