Apple Watch SE 3 sells for $249 and Apple Watch Series 11 arrived in September 2025 at $399, and Apple lists the same S10 chip in both. What the extra $150 bought was a larger and much brighter display, six more hours of rated battery life and two heart sensors the SE does not have.…
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 on Monday or Wait for 27.1? Apple Has Published No Point Release Date
If you are planning to skip Monday and wait for iOS 27.1, understand what you are waiting for: Apple has not published an iOS 27.1, has not dated one, and has not published a single word about how iOS 27 itself will roll out beyond the date. Apple issued the iOS 27 release candidate, build…
iOS 27 on an iPhone 15 Pro: The Apple Intelligence You Get and the Tier You Do Not
The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are the oldest iPhones on Apple’s Apple Intelligence list, so on Monday, September 14 they get the full iOS 27 feature set as most people understand it: Siri AI in beta, Image Playground, the new Photos editing tools and Call Context. Write with Siri drafts and…
iOS 27 Hardware Gates: Every Feature That Needs a Device You May Not Own
Apple Intelligence is the iOS 27 gate everybody knows about, and it is not the only one. Once you read the footnotes on Apple’s pages, iOS 27 splits the iPhone line into three tiers, then adds separate requirements for a home hub, particular AirPods, an Apple Watch Series 12 and, in one case, a specific…
iOS 27 on an iPhone 11: What Apple's Oldest Supported iPhone Actually Gets
iOS 27 arrives on Monday, September 14 as a free update, and Apple’s compatibility list still runs all the way back to the iPhone 11 and the iPhone SE second generation. An iPhone 11 gets the new Liquid Glass look, Apple’s speed work, the rebuilt search and the new parental controls. It gets none of…
The iPhone 18 Pro Storage Choice Has a Carbon Price: 63 kg at 256GB, 109 kg at 2TB
Apple’s own Product Environmental Report for iPhone 18 Pro puts the 256GB model at 63 kg of CO2e and the 2TB model at 109 kg. That is a 73 percent increase in a phone’s carbon footprint for choosing more storage, published by Apple in a PDF dated September 2026 and never mentioned in the press…
Satellite Across Apple's 2026 Lineup: Two Free Years, and Nothing Published About Year Three
Satellite appears three times in Apple’s 2026 announcements and always with the same number attached to it: two years, included. Apple Watch Ultra 4 and iPhone Duo both carry satellite features free for two years, existing iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 owners are getting an additional free year, and Apple has published nothing…
Buying Apple's 2026 Devices for a Child: Every Age Limit and Setup Rule Apple Published
If you are buying any of Apple’s 2026 products for a child, the decisions are made for you by a set of age limits Apple published in footnotes rather than on stage. Siri AI is not available to users under 13, the ECG app is intended for people 22 and over, sleep apnea notifications are…
Apple Watch Series 12 Band Fit: What Apple Publishes for 42mm, 46mm and the Bigger Ceramic Case
Apple Watch Series 12 comes in two size classes, 42mm and 46mm, and Apple sells its bands under those same two labels. The catch this year is ceramic: Apple’s specifications list the ceramic case as 43mm and 47mm tall, a millimetre more than the aluminium and titanium cases in the same class, and it is…
Five iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Order Choices, Ranked by What Getting One Wrong Costs
Five things are settled the moment you check out on Saturday, September 12: size, storage, color, whether you attach a carrier, and whether you trade something in. Only three of them move the price, one of them can cost $1,200, and one is a $100 difference Apple never prints as a number. The 6.3-inch and…
Does the Apple Watch Series 12 Measure Blood Pressure? No, and Here Is What It Does Instead
No. The Apple Watch Series 12 does not measure blood pressure, and Apple has never said it does. There is no cuff, no systolic or diastolic reading, and no blood pressure sensor anywhere on the sensor list Apple publishes for the watch. The Readiness score is one of the features fed by the more frequent…
Will Your iPhone 17 Pro Case Fit the iPhone 18 Pro? What Apple's Own Numbers Show
Apple lists the iPhone 18 Pro at 150.0 by 71.9 by 8.75 mm. It lists the iPhone 17 Pro at 150.0 by 71.9 by 8.75 mm. The two are identical to the tenth of a millimetre, and so are the big pair: iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro Max are both 163.4 by…
iOS 27 Stuck on 'Preparing Update' or 'Verifying Update': What Apple Has Published
If iOS 27 sits on “Preparing Update” or “Verifying Update” on Monday, September 14, Apple has published no troubleshooting document for it. There is no “About iOS 27 Updates” page, no iOS 27 security content page, and the general update guide has not been revised since December 5, 2025. iOS 27 is a free update…
iPhone Overheating After the iOS 27 Update: What Apple Has and Has Not Published
If your iPhone runs hot for a day or two after installing iOS 27 on Monday, September 14, Apple has published no document that acknowledges it, explains it or tells you what to do about it. There is no iOS 27 thermal guidance anywhere on apple.com or on Apple Support. iOS 27 reaches iPhone 11…
iOS 27 Battery Drain: What Apple Has Published, and What It Has Not
If your iPhone drains faster after you install iOS 27 on Monday, September 14, Apple has published nothing that predicts it, measures it or explains it. There is no iOS 27 battery statement of any kind, and no Apple support document that covers what happens to an iPhone in the days after a major update.…
Two 14-Day Clocks Start When Your iPhone 18 Pro Arrives, and Apple Explains Neither Ending
Two separate 14-day clocks start on the day an iPhone 18 Pro is delivered, and Apple publishes what starts each one without publishing what happens when either runs out. The first is the trade-in estimate, which Apple says is “valid for 14 days after you receive your new device.” The second is price protection, which…
Moving to an iPhone 18 Pro: What Apple's Published Transfer Instructions Cover, and Where They Stop
Apple’s published instructions for moving to an iPhone 18 Pro amount to three preparation steps and one free support session. There is no Apple support article covering data transfer to this model, because Apple has not published a user guide for it yet: the iPhone manuals index still stops at the iPhone 17 family and…
Your iPhone 18 Pro Arrives September 18: What Apple Publishes for the Days Before It Does
iPhone 18 Pro reaches buyers on Friday, September 18, and the useful preparation happens on the phone you already own rather than the one in transit. Apple publishes exactly one detail about the new device’s software state, and it is a helpful one: the box contains “iPhone with iOS 27”, so there is no first-run…
Changing or Cancelling an iPhone 18 Pro Order: Apple's Sales Policies Are the Only Published Answer
Apple has published no instructions for changing or cancelling an iPhone 18 Pro order after you place it. There is no support document, no step list and no stated window, and the closest published source is Apple’s retail sales policies, which are written almost entirely in Apple’s favour. Colour is one of four choices locked…
iPhone 18 Pro Delivery on September 18: Apple Publishes a Shipping Rule, Not an Arrival Date
Apple has published a start date for iPhone 18 Pro deliveries, Friday, September 18, and a shipping rule that applies to it, but it has not published an arrival date for any individual configuration. Apple’s own wording is that you get the date after you buy, not before: “Delivery estimates are based on item availability…
Apple Watch by Activity: The Right Pick for Swimmers, Hikers, Runners and Desk Workers
Apple now sells exactly three watches, and what you do with your day picks between them faster than any spec sheet will. Swimmers, day hikers and desk workers can stop at the $399 Apple Watch Series 12; only long-distance runners, divers and people who go off grid can point at an Apple number that justifies…
Which iPhone Should You Buy in 2026? A Decision Table for All Seven Apple Sells
Apple sells seven iPhones as of today, and the price ladder runs from $699 to $1,999. The $699 iPhone 17e is the cheapest way in, the $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro is the model most people asking this question end up buying, and the $1,999 iPhone Duo is the only one that does not arrive until…
Apple Intelligence at Work: The Device List, the 16 Languages and the Regions Apple Leaves Out
Apple Intelligence launches with iOS 27 on Monday, September 14 in 16 languages, and Siri AI arrives the same day as a beta in English only. For an organisation, three published lines decide more than the hardware does: the device list, the language list, and the fact that Siri AI is not available initially in…
eSIM-Only iPhone 18 Pro in 12 Countries: What Apple Publishes for a Multi-Country Order
iPhone 18 Pro ships with no SIM tray at all in 12 countries, and Apple publishes the list. Apple also publishes the dual eSIM specification, two lines active at once and eight or more stored, and it has published nothing about moving those lines across a company fleet. iPhone 18 Pro ships without a SIM…