Apple puts the iPhone 18 Pro Max at 69 kg of CO2e at 256GB, rising to 114 kg at 2TB, and the iPhone 18 Pro at 63 kg rising to 109 kg. Those numbers exist in exactly one place: the Product Environmental Report PDF Apple published for both phones. Storage, not color or size, is…
iOS 27 Voice Control Adds Natural Language in Four Countries: US, Canada, UK and Australia
Apple’s iOS 27 page says Voice Control will let you describe an onscreen control rather than remember its label, and Apple’s own regional footnote limits that change to English in four countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. iOS 27 arrives as a free update on Monday, September 14. Image: Apple Voice…
Accessibility Reader in iOS 27: Summaries and Translation for Dense Text, and the Five Details Apple Left Out
Apple’s iOS 27 page lists Accessibility Reader as one of five accessibility features arriving on Monday, September 14, and describes it in a single line: summaries and translation on complex material. That line is the whole of what Apple has published about it. iOS 27 ships on the iPhone 18 Pro and on every iPhone…
Apple Watch Case Materials Then and Now: Stainless Steel Gone, Titanium Since Series 10, Ceramic New for Series 12
Apple Watch Series 12 lists three case materials, aluminum, titanium and ceramic, which is one more than any Apple Watch has offered since 2021. Stainless steel, which Apple’s own spec sheets named as recently as Series 9, is not on the 2026 list at all. Ceramic is new for Series 12, in pearl white and…
iPhone Duo Unknowns, by Date: What Apple Fills In Before October 30, and What It Never Will
Some of what Apple has not yet published about the iPhone Duo has a date attached to it, and the rest has no date at all. Sorting the gaps that way is more useful than listing them, because it tells you which questions will be answered before you have to decide and which ones will…
iPhone Handoff Launches With Two Carriers Worldwide: Every Carrier Rule in Apple's Footnotes
Footnote 9 of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro press release is one sentence long and it decides who gets one of iOS 27’s new features. Verbatim: “iPhone Handoff will be available at launch with T-Mobile in the U.S. and Telekom Germany in Germany.” Two carriers, two countries, and no other carrier named anywhere. iPhone 18 Pro…
Apple Takes a Pixel or Galaxy Toward an iPhone 18 Pro, and Publishes No Range for Either
Apple Trade In accepts Android phones toward an iPhone 18 Pro, and Apple publishes no credit range for any of them. The only range Apple states in its own words covers iPhones: customers trading in an iPhone 13 or later “can get $175 to $885 (U.S.) in credit instantly.” Nothing equivalent exists for a Pixel,…
Apple's 10 Percent Military Discount Saves $119.90 on an iPhone 18 Pro and Blocks Both Financing Routes
Apple’s Veterans and Military Purchase Program is the one across-the-board Apple discount that applies to an iPhone, at 10 percent off, which is $119.90 on Apple’s $1,199 starting price for iPhone 18 Pro. Apple also states that Apple Card Monthly Installments “are not available as a payment type in this special storefront,” and the Apple…
Will Your Old Apple Watch Bands Fit Series 12? What Apple Has Actually Published
Apple has published no statement about whether bands from older Apple Watch models fit Apple Watch Series 12. What it does publish is the sizing for the new bands: two columns, 42mm and 46mm, with wrist ranges of 130 to 200mm and 140 to 245mm. The new Series 12 Sport Band colors. Image: Apple That…
Apple Watch Series 12 Front Crystal: Ceramic Shield 2 on Aluminum, Sapphire on Titanium and Ceramic
Only the aluminum Apple Watch Series 12 gets Ceramic Shield 2. Apple lists a sapphire crystal on the titanium and ceramic cases instead, and the toughness number everyone has been quoting, 60 percent tougher than Ion-X, is attached to the aluminum case alone. Apple Watch Series 12 in two of its new case finishes. Image:…