Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes are 8.75 mm deep, the same depth Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. That makes the new Pro thicker than the 7.95 mm iPhone 17, well thicker than the 5.64 mm iPhone Air, and thinner than the 11.3 mm an iPhone Duo measures when it…
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iPhone 18 Pro Battery vs Pro Max: 36 Hours Clears the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Falls 3 Short of the 17 Pro Max
Apple rates the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro at up to 36 hours of video playback, which is three hours more than it rates the iPhone 16 Pro Max and three hours less than last year’s iPhone 17 Pro Max. The small Pro has, in other words, caught up with a big Pro, just not the…
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Cost of Ownership: $399 and $799 Are Starting Points, Not Totals
Apple has published three Apple Watch prices for this launch and every one of them starts with the word from: Apple Watch SE 3 from $249, Apple Watch Series 12 from $399 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 from $799. Nothing else about what a Watch costs to own over three years is on an Apple…
iPhone 18 Pro Ownership: Year One Costs $1,497.88, and Year Two Cannot Be Priced at All
Every number needed to cost the first year of an iPhone 18 Pro is on an Apple page. The 6.3-inch 256GB model is $1,199 with carrier connectivity, the TechWoven Case is $59 and AppleCare One is $19.99 a month, which totals $1,497.88 over twelve months on our arithmetic. The Clear Case is $49, one of…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Is 20 Percent More Screen for 18 Percent More Phone: The Size Math Apple Does Not Print
Choose the 6.9-inch iPhone 18 Pro Max over the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro and you get about 20 percent more display, in a body with about 18 percent more footprint and 18 percent more weight. Both panels are 460 ppi, both are the same shape, and Apple publishes every number needed to work that out…
iOS 27 Password Alerts Are Not Ready on Monday: Every Privacy Feature Apple Left Undated
One of the security additions Apple lists for iOS 27 is not in Monday’s release. Apple’s own page says the Passwords app “Alerts you to weak or compromised passwords and can update them”, then labels it “Coming in a future software update”, with no date attached. iOS 27 arrives Monday, September 14, without every feature…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Size Premium: A Flat $100 in the US, 10.5 Percent of the Price in Singapore
The iPhone 18 Pro Max costs exactly $100 more than the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro at all four storage tiers, and Apple’s store pages show the same flat pattern in every one of the ten countries we have prices for. What that gap is worth changes with the market: it is 7.8 percent of the…
tvOS 27 Is the Only Apple Update With No Date and No Device List
Apple has published no release date for tvOS 27 and no list of Apple TV models that can install it, even though the software reached release candidate on September 9 with build 24J360. The five other operating systems from the same wave all arrive on Monday, September 14. iOS 27 is dated for Monday, September…
AirPods 5 Took Over Apple's AirPods 4 Page: What Apple Still Sells, and at What Price
Apple’s store URL for AirPods 4 now loads AirPods 5 instead, at $129 for the standard model and $149 for the version with the Wireless Charging Case. Read together with Apple’s AirPods comparison page, which lists AirPods 5, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2, the range Apple sells today is three products across four…
iPhone 18 Pro Wireless Charging: 25W Is a Third-Year Ceiling, and Qi2 Only Caught Up Last Year
The iPhone 18 Pro charges at up to 25W on MagSafe and up to 25W on Qi2, which is exactly what Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro before it. The wireless ceiling on a Pro iPhone has not moved for three generations. Both iPhone 18 Pro models share the…
AirPods 5 and the H2 Chip: What Runs on the Earbuds and What Needs Your iPhone
Both AirPods 5 models run the H2 chip, the same chip Apple lists in AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2. So the useful question is not what the chip is called, it is which features the earbuds handle on their own and which ones stop working unless a…
iPhone 18 Pro Storage History: The 128GB Pro Is Gone and the Ceiling Has Doubled to 2TB
The iPhone 18 Pro is sold in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB, and there is no smaller option. Four Pro generations in a row, from the iPhone 13 Pro to the iPhone 16 Pro, started at 128GB, and only one iPhone before this year had a 2TB tier at all. Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes…
AirPods 5 Are Rated IP57, and Apple Publishes No Depth, Duration or Standard
AirPods 5 are rated IP57, up from IP54 on AirPods 4, and that is the entire published statement. Apple’s tech specs page gives the rating one line in a row labelled water and sweat, with no depth, no duration, no test standard named and no separate line for the charging case. AirPods 5 move from…
AirPods 5 Head Gestures Need Three Settings On First, Not One
Nodding to take a call on AirPods 5 is not a single switch. Apple’s own guide says head gestures have to be turned on in the AirPods settings, and that using them to respond to Siri requires Announce Calls and Announce Notifications to be on as well, which means three separate settings before a nod…
iPhone 18 Pro Ultra Wide: f/2.2 for a Fifth Straight Year, and the f/1.8 Apple Never Brought Back
Apple’s tech specs page lists the iPhone 18 Pro Ultra Wide as a 48MP Fusion camera at 13 mm and f/2.2 with a 120-degree field of view. That f/2.2 has been the Pro Ultra Wide figure every year since the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, and the brightest Ultra Wide Apple has ever published for…
iPhone 18 Pro at 211 g: The Small Pro Has Gained 24 Grams Since the Titanium iPhone 15 Pro
The iPhone 18 Pro weighs 211 grams, or 7.44 ounces, on Apple’s tech specs page, which makes it the heaviest 6.1-inch or 6.3-inch Pro iPhone Apple has published a figure for. It carries 24 grams more than the 187 gram iPhone 15 Pro, the model that introduced the titanium frame in 2023. All four iPhone…
AirPods 5 Come With No Ear Tips: What Open-Ear Noise Cancellation Has to Work Around
AirPods 5 are the first open-ear AirPods with Active Noise Cancellation at this level, and the box contains no ear tips. Apple lists the contents as the earbuds, a charging case and documentation. AirPods Pro 3, by contrast, ship with five silicone tip sizes. AirPods 5 keep the AirPods 4 shell, 30.2 x 18.3 x…
AirPods 5 Noise Cancellation Has No Decibel Figure: Every Number Apple Publishes Instead
Apple publishes no decibel figure for AirPods 5 noise cancellation. It publishes no frequency range, no attenuation curve, no test method and no noise source. The only number attached to the cancellation itself is a comparison: up to 1.5x more than AirPods 4 with ANC, or up to 50 percent more noise removed, depending on…
iPhone 18 Pro Display Resolution: 2622 x 1206 for a Third Generation, and 460 ppi Across the Lineup
The iPhone 18 Pro display is 2622 x 1206 at 460 pixels per inch, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max is 2868 x 1320 at the same 460 ppi. Neither set of numbers is new. Both carry over from the iPhone 17 Pro generation, and the 6.3-inch figures go back to the iPhone 16 Pro.…
AirPods 5 ANC: Why Apple's '50 Percent More Noise' and '1.5x More ANC' Are Not the Same Sentence
Apple describes the AirPods 5 noise cancellation gain twice, in two different ways. The press release says the earbuds remove up to 50 percent more noise compared to AirPods 4 with ANC. The product page says up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation. The arithmetic matches. The precision does not. AirPods…
AirPods 5 Noise Cancellation: Apple's 'Industry's Best' Claim Stops at Open-Ear Designs
Apple’s press release for AirPods 5 is headlined “Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation,” and the product page states the same thing as “the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design.” The superlative is real, and it is fenced in by five words: in an open-ear design. AirPods 5…
Apple Watch Prices Before September 18: The Three Numbers Apple Publishes, and Nine It Does Not
Every Apple Watch price Apple has published for this launch fits in three figures: From $249 for SE 3, From $399 for Series 12 and From $799 for Ultra 4. There is no fourth number, and no per-configuration list anywhere on Apple’s site. Ceramic returns on Series 12 in pearl white and night blue, at…
Apple Watch Readiness Arrives Monday, and the Health App That Summarizes It Has No Date
Readiness reaches Apple Watch on Monday, September 14, when watchOS 27 ships free. The place Apple has designed to summarize it, the redesigned Health app on iPhone, is dated only later this year, in US English, on devices that support Apple Intelligence. The Readiness score arrives with watchOS 27 on September 14. Image: Apple So…
Apple Names the Readiness App on Two Apple Watch Pages and Leaves It Off the watchOS 27 List
Apple lists a new Readiness app on exactly two pages: the one for Apple Watch Series 12 and the one for Apple Watch Ultra 4. It is not in the watchOS 27 feature list Apple publishes, and Apple has said nothing about whether Series 11, Ultra 3 or Apple Watch SE 3 get it. The…