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…