The day iPhone 18 Pro actually reaches you, whether by delivery or store pickup, starts two separate clocks in Apple’s own retail policy: 14 days to return or exchange it, and a 14-day window for Apple to cut the price before you can claim the difference back. Both are published in plain language on Apple’s…
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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iOS 27's Release Candidate Notes List Eight Siri Known Issues, With Apple's Own Workaround for Each
Apple’s release candidate notes for iOS 27 list eight known issues with Siri, each paired with Apple’s own workaround, in documentation published at developer.apple.com. These are release candidate notes, one step behind Monday’s public build, and Apple has not said whether any of the eight persist once iOS 27 ships on September 14. Apple's September…
iPhone 18 Pro Pickup or Delivery: What Changes About Setup Day
iPhone 18 Pro reaches customers two ways on Friday, September 18: a courier delivery to an address, or a walk into an Apple Store to collect an order already placed. Apple publishes real requirements for the second path, an ID check and a pickup deadline, that do not apply to the first, though the setup…
Apple and India's CCI: The Fight Over a $38 Billion Fine Formula
India’s Competition Commission has been sitting on a completed antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store since 2021. The fight this month is not over the underlying conduct but over how large a fine the regulator is allowed to calculate, a dispute paused in the Delhi High Court with no new order found since mid-July. A…
iPhone 18 Pro eSIM Activation: Carrier Steps for AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon
iPhone 18 Pro ships without a physical SIM tray in the United States and eleven other countries and regions, which means eSIM activation is not an optional extra for most American buyers, it is the only way the phone gets service at all. Apple documents six separate ways to put an eSIM on the phone,…
Apple and Japan's Smartphone Act: A Compliance Report and a Fairness Complaint
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission published Apple’s second compliance report under the Mobile Software Competition Act on July 27, 2026, and on August 21, an industry coalition told the same regulator that the report shows an unwillingness to comply rather than compliance. A presenter on stage at Apple Park. Japan is also one of the first…
iPhone 18 Pro Data Transfer: iCloud Backup, Quick Start or a Cable, Compared
Apple publishes three separate ways to move data onto a new iPhone, and iPhone 18 Pro buyers get to pick whichever fits the morning they actually have. Quick Start is wireless and immediate, an iCloud backup works even when the two phones are not together, and a cable transfer skips the network entirely. Here is…
Apple's UK Steering Proposal: The CMA Has Had Responses for a Month, No Decision Yet
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority proposed in June 2026 to make Apple and Google let developers steer users toward payment options outside their app stores, calling it a Steering Conduct Requirement. The consultation closed seven weeks ago, the CMA published the responses it received a month ago, and its own case page still shows…
iPhone 18 Pro Setup: How Quick Start Works the Moment It Arrives
iPhone 18 Pro arrives Friday, September 18, five days from now, and the first thing most buyers will do is hold it next to their old iPhone and let Quick Start run. Apple’s support pages describe Quick Start as the built in wireless tool that copies your settings, accounts and data onto the new phone…
Apple's EU Interoperability Report: The Numbers Behind 102 Requests
Apple has published its own account of how the European Union’s interoperability rules are working in practice. The report covers 102 requests logged between May 9 and December 31, 2025, counts 22 of them resolved with a released solution, and records zero instances where Apple says it missed one of the regulation’s own deadlines. Apple's…
Apple's EU Gatekeeper Status: The July Ruling and This Month's Appeal Deadline
The General Court of the European Union dismissed every action Apple brought against its designation as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act on July 8, 2026. The court’s own procedural rule gives Apple two months and ten days after formal notification of that judgment to appeal to the Court of Justice, a window whose…
Siri AI's EU Exclusion: The DMA Proposal Apple Says Regulators Rejected
Siri AI does not ship in the European Union on iOS 27, iPadOS 27 or watchOS 27 when the software arrives Monday, September 14. Apple’s own newsroom explains the exclusion in unusually specific terms: Apple says it proposed a “Trusted System Agent” approach and an 18-month rollout plan under the Digital Markets Act, and that…
iPhone Trade-In Process Outside the US: Identical in Four Countries, Different in India
Apple’s trade-in process reads almost word for word the same across the storefronts checked in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan this week, down to the 14-day return window and the three to five business days credit takes to process. The exception is India, where Apple’s own page restricts Mac, iPad and Apple Watch…
iPhone Duo's Design Rules: The Outer Display, the Hinge and Five Named Poses
Apple tells app developers to design for two size classes, not for five poses. But the poses still decide where controls, sheets and content are allowed to sit on iPhone Duo, according to the design guidelines and Tech Talk videos Apple has published for its foldable so far. Apple's product page names five poses under…
iPhone 18 Pro Carrier Offers Outside the US: What Telstra, Vodafone Australia, Docomo and Orange Publish
Outside the United States, several carriers have published their own iPhone 18 Pro launch offers directly on their own websites, separate from the prices on Apple’s storefronts. In Australia, Telstra is offering a flat $300 bonus trade-in credit and Vodafone Australia is bundling three months of Apple TV+ and Apple Music. In Japan, NTT Docomo…
iPhone Duo's New Code: Six APIs Developers Have Not Used Before
Apple’s iPhone Duo Tech Talk videos describe at least six pieces of code that do not exist on any other iPhone: a layout container built for a fold, a way to reserve space around the hinge and a camera, a hinge-angle sensor, a way to open a second window, a way to add controls to…
iPhone 18 Pro's Free 3 Months of Services: The Same Offer on Six Storefronts
Apple is running one identical launch-week offer across every storefront this masthead checked outside the United States. Buy an eligible device in the United Kingdom, India, Germany, France, Japan or Australia and Apple promises three months of selected services free, plus a free one-to-one online Personal Setup session, in nearly matching wording on every page,…
iPhone Duo Group Labs Start September 16: Where Apple's Developer Tools Actually Stand
Apple’s iPhone Duo Group Labs for developers begin Wednesday, September 16, at 8 p.m. Pacific, with a second session the following morning. Five weeks before the phone reaches customers, the Xcode 27.1 beta that developers need to actually run an app on a simulated iPhone Duo has still not shipped. Apple's developer hub for iPhone…
iPhone 18 Pro Launch Day Outside the US: What Six Storefronts Say About Delivery and Pickup
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro buy pages in the United Kingdom, India, Germany, France, Japan and Australia all point to the same day, Friday, September 18, for the phones ordered since pre-orders opened worldwide on September 12. Checked live on September 13, none of the six storefronts shows a delivery-date estimate or an in-store pickup option,…
iPhone Duo's Specs Page: Four Details Apple Added Since the September 9 Keynote
Apple has not changed iPhone Duo’s price, colors or October dates since the September 9 keynote. But four details on Apple’s own live pages were never part of the announcement itself, and none of them appear in the coverage written the day of the event. They surface only in the tech specs page’s footnotes, or…
Apple Reportedly Asked a Judge to Let It Charge Up to 15% on US App Store Link-Out Sales
Apple has reportedly proposed a tiered commission on US App Store purchases that happen after a customer taps a link out of an app to pay on the web, according to court filings described in reports this week. The reported rates run as high as 15 percent, with lower tiers for specific programs, submitted in…
AirPods and Siri AI: What EU Owners and AirPods 5 Buyers Do Not Get on September 14 or 18
Siri AI, Apple’s conversational assistant, reaches iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch worldwide when iOS 27 installs Monday, September 14, 2026, with one stated exception. Apple’s own newsroom release says Siri AI “will not be available initially in the EU in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS,” so AirPods paired to a phone in the European Union will…
iOS 27's New CPA2 Security Feature Needs A20 Pro, M6 or S11, and Mac Studio Misses Out
Apple’s release notes for iOS 27 name a new hardware security feature called CPA2, delivered through an instruction set Apple labels arm64e.x1. According to Apple’s own developer documentation, it works only on iPhone models with the A20 Pro chip or later, Mac computers with an M6 chip or later, and Apple Watch models with the…
AirPods 5 Ship Friday Needing iOS 27 and Firmware Together: What Apple's Fine Print Says
AirPods 5 reach stores Friday, September 18, 2026, at $129 or $149 with the Wireless Charging Case, and Apple’s own specifications page attaches a condition to several of the features on the box: the earbuds need current firmware, the paired device needs current software, and for some features Apple Intelligence needs to be switched on.…