If Writing Tools stops responding in Messages, or a reminder you made from a chat has no title, your iPhone isn’t at fault. Both bugs are listed as known issues in Apple’s own iOS 27 release notes, and Apple gives a workaround for each: force quit Messages for the first, and type the title in…
Mike Peterson
Mike is a technology journalist with a deep focus on Apple’s Mac ecosystem. He has spent years tracking macOS development, Apple Silicon architecture, and system-level changes across major macOS versions. His reporting covers everything from kernel-level enhancements and Swift-based APIs to hardware teardown analysis of M-series chips.
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Apple now lists French and German for the shorter 'Siri' wake word
iPhone owners who speak French or German to Siri can drop the “Hey”. Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 27 feature availability page now lists French (France) and German (Germany) under “Activate with Siri”, the option that wakes the assistant when you say just “Siri”, and it adds eight languages to Visual Look Up. iOS 27 and…
Apple Intelligence bundles Home app alerts by default: here's the off switch
If your Home accessory alerts now arrive as one summary, Apple Intelligence is doing it, and it is on unless you switch it off. Apple’s support document on the Home app, published September 16, says Reduced Notifications is on by default, while Summarize Videos, which captions security camera clips, starts off. The Apple logo. Apple…
Child safety group's vans targeted John Ternus at Apple Fifth Avenue, per report
A child safety group lined Fifth Avenue with lit-up vans aimed at John Ternus as he opened Apple’s flagship New York store for the iPhone 18 Pro launch on September 18, according to AppleInsider. The group, Heat Initiative, wants Apple to do more to stop child sexual abuse material spreading through iCloud and to protect…
Omdia: Apple grew earbud shipments to 16.8 million in Q2 as the market shrank
Apple shipped 16.8 million true wireless earbuds in the second quarter of 2026, up 1.2 percent from a year earlier, while the market as a whole shrank, according to research firm Omdia. That gave Apple a 20.5 percent share of the 82.1 million units shipped worldwide, almost double second-place Xiaomi. AirPods 5, which Apple markets…
Apple's settlement with Musk's X stays secret as judge denies OpenAI's bid
The terms of Apple’s settlement with Elon Musk’s X Corp. and SpaceXAI will stay confidential. After reading the agreement in private, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled on September 17 that it holds nothing relevant to the case that continues against OpenAI, and he denied OpenAI’s emergency motion to see it. A presenter on stage…
How to resize a widget on your iPhone Home Screen without deleting it
A widget that is the wrong size can be fixed where it sits. Touch and hold it on the Home Screen, choose a different widget size from the menu that appears, and the widget changes in place. No removing it, no hunting through the widget gallery to add it again. iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.…
Apple's own pages disagree on when Apple Intelligence limits start
Apple’s marketing page says server-side Apple Intelligence features “are subject to daily usage limits”, in the present tense. Apple’s support document on the same subject says Apple “will implement usage limits” on those features “in the future”. Both pages still read that way on September 19, neither gives a number, and an owner cannot tell…
Apple's $250 million Siri settlement: who qualifies and how claims will work
Apple’s $250 million settlement over its delayed Siri features pays a presumptive $25 per eligible iPhone, and each payment can rise to a cap of $95 if fewer people claim than expected. It covers anyone who bought an iPhone 16, iPhone 16e, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro…
Apple reportedly accepts pricier 2027 memory, a cost risk for iPhone 18 and 18e
Apple has accepted sharply higher Samsung memory prices for the first quarter of 2027, according to a DigiTimes report published September 16. If the report is right, that lands in the same window in which the standard iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are widely expected, so memory for those phones would cost Apple more just…
Apple settled 20 AirTag stalking lawsuits in two months, its court brief says
Apple settled 20 AirTag stalking lawsuits in roughly two months this summer, according to its own brief to the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. That is about half of all the cases brought over the tracker, and the panel hears argument on September 24 in Chicago on whether the rest should be folded into…
Counterpoint: iPhone 18 Pro day-one demand in India up 15% to 28% on last year
Preliminary estimates from Counterpoint Research put launch-day demand for the iPhone 18 Pro series in India 15% to 28% above last year’s iPhone 17 Pro, depending on the city, Business Standard reported on September 18, the day the phones went on sale there. Counterpoint’s research director Tarun Pathak gave no figure of his own on…
Apple says iPhone 17 Pro cases aren't made for iPhone 18 Pro, over a 0.1mm gap
Apple doesn’t consider iPhone 17 Pro cases compatible with iPhone 18 Pro, because the new phone’s camera plateau is slightly thicker, Apple told Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. By his caliper, the difference is one-tenth of a millimeter, and in his testing the old cases fit the new phones “perfectly”. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18…
Apple Watch Series 12 heart rate nearly matched a chest strap in a new test
Apple Watch Series 12’s new heart rate sensor tracked almost exactly with a Polar H10 chest strap in the first round of testing by Rob ter Horst, who runs The Quantified Scientist YouTube channel. In his own testing, the watch scored correlations of a rounded 1.0 for indoor cycling, 0.98 for running and 0.97 for…
53% of US iPhone shoppers want an 18 Pro and 14% a Duo, Evercore survey finds
Evercore ISI’s survey of nearly 4,000 US consumers found that 53% of people planning to buy an iPhone intend to get an iPhone 18 Pro or Pro Max, and 14% intend to buy iPhone Duo. Analyst Amit Daryanani used the results in a September 18 note to clients to raise Evercore’s Apple price target to…
DXOMARK scores iPhone 18 Pro 172, second only to the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra
DXOMARK has given the iPhone 18 Pro an overall camera score of 172, which puts it second in the lab’s global ranking, three points behind the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra at 175. Its video score of 176 is marked as DXOMARK’s top score for any phone. A low-light photo taken with iPhone 18 Pro's variable…
iPhone 18 Pro Max lasted 18 hours 27 minutes in an independent battery test
iPhone 18 Pro Max ran for 18 hours and 27 minutes of continuous web browsing over cellular before shutting down in Tom’s Guide’s standard battery test, published September 16, and the smaller iPhone 18 Pro lasted 16 hours and 17 minutes. Both beat last year’s models, the Pro Max by 33 minutes and the Pro…
TechInsights finds a Qualcomm X80 modem inside the US iPhone 18 Pro Max
TechInsights’ preliminary teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro Max found a Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 modem inside, not Apple’s own C2. The unit it opened is model A3473, the US version of the phone, and Apple’s own US specs page quietly agrees: it lists the Apple C2 cellular modem for iPhone 18 Pro but not for…
Apple TV put 14 iPhone 18 Pros around Dodger Stadium, eight on T-Mobile 5G
Apple TV set up 14 iPhone 18 Pro units around Dodger Stadium as specialty cameras for its last Friday Night Baseball broadcast of the 2026 season, the San Francisco Giants at the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 18. Eight of them were set to send live video to the production over a dedicated T-Mobile Private…
ROSÉ's "new trick" music video was shot entirely on iPhone 18 Pro
ROSÉ’s music video for her new single “new trick” was shot entirely on iPhone 18 Pro, and Apple is running it as a Shot on iPhone showcase for the new phone. The three-minute video went up on ROSÉ’s official YouTube channel on September 17, and Apple posted a 35-second cut on its own channel on…
Apple sets iPhone 18 Pro battery service at $129, up $10 from iPhone 17 Pro
A battery replacement for iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max costs $129 out of warranty in the US, $10 more than Apple charges on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple’s repair price tool now lists every estimate for both new phones, and every other line, from a cracked screen to…
iPhone Duo was shaped like a paper notebook, Apple's designers tell GQ
Apple designed iPhone Duo around the feel of a paper notebook, and its proportions come from the A-series paper system, so the phone keeps the same shape whether it is open or closed. That is the core of what Apple CEO John Ternus, industrial design VP Molly Anderson and human interface design VP Steve Lemay…
Run Prepare to Ship before you mail an iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple says
Before you box up an activated iPhone 18 Pro Max for a repair, trade-in, return or new owner, open Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone and tap Prepare to Ship. Apple published the requirement on September 18 in a support document, because the Pro Max battery is now over 20 watt-hours and single-cell…
iPhone Duo AppleCare+ costs $19.99 a month, with a $99 inner screen fee
AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss for iPhone Duo costs $19.99 a month or $199.99 a year, according to Apple’s online store. Under that plan, a cracked outer screen costs $29 to fix, but damage to the folding inner display costs $99. iPhone Duo's inner and outer displays, which Apple now prices separately under AppleCare+. Image:…