iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max pre-orders open at 5 a.m. PT today, Saturday September 12, and that is a single worldwide instant: 12:00 UTC. Apple describes that one instant in two different ways depending on which of its own pages you read, and in the UK, India, Canada and Germany the press…
Apple Watch Sound Recognition: Available Now or Late 2026? Apple's Own Two Pages Disagree
Two Apple pages published in the same week give different answers about when Sound Recognition works on the new watches. Apple support document 148354 lists Sound Recognition as available, while the Apple Watch Series 12 product page groups it with Live Rewind and Siri Recap as coming late 2026. Apple groups Sound Recognition with Live…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 in Cold and Heat: The Minus 20C Wrist Range, MIL-STD 810H and IP6X
Apple rates the Apple Watch Ultra 4 for wear between minus 20 and 55 degrees Celsius, lists a separate 0 to 35 degree operating range, and says the 49 mm titanium case has been tested to MIL-STD 810H. It also carries an IP6X dust rating and 100 metre water resistance, and it reaches stores on…
AirPods 5 Case Premium by Country: $20 in the US, C$30 in Canada, ₹3,000 in India
The step from AirPods 5 to AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case costs $20 in the United States, which is about 16 percent on top of the $129 base. Apple’s regional newsrooms show the same step priced very differently: about 20 percent in India, about 14 percent in Australia and about 10 percent in Singapore.…
iPhone Duo Split View Needs Apps That Adapt: Apple Has Six Sessions, Four Dates and No SDK Yet
Split View on the iPhone Duo runs two apps side by side on the 7.6-inch inner display, and the apps have to be built to resize for it. Apple published six developer sessions and four dated events for that work on September 9, and listed the Xcode 27.1 beta needed to build for the phone…
iPhone Duo's Posable Positions: The Five Apple Names, and What It Documents About the Rebuilt StandBy
Apple names five positions the iPhone Duo can be left in and says iOS responds to each of them: StandBy, landscape, portrait, seated and standing. Its own tagline for the phone is “Foldable. Posable. And durable,” and the press release lists an upgraded StandBy among the software changes. Both of iPhone Duo's displays are Always-On,…
iPhone 18 Pro Genlock: Apple Lists Frame Sync on a Phone and Documents Almost Nothing Else
Three words sit in Apple’s iPhone comparison rows for iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max that most buyers will never use: Apple Log 2, ProRes RAW and Genlock. Genlock is the strangest of the three to find on a phone, because it only makes sense when there is more than one camera pointed…
iPhone 18 Pro Variable Aperture: Five Things It Does Not Change
The iPhone 18 Pro is the first iPhone with an aperture that moves, and the four stops Apple lists, f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8 and f/4.0, are a genuine first. What they are not is a change to the whole camera system: the mechanism sits on one lens of four, and a good deal of the phone…
There Is No A20, Only A20 Pro: Every Chip in Apple's 2026 iPhone Lineup
Apple announced one new iPhone chip this year and gave it a Pro suffix. The A20 Pro ships in three products, the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone 18 Pro Max and the iPhone Duo, and Apple has announced no chip called A20 without it. The A20 Pro is the only new iPhone chip Apple announced…
A20 Pro vs A19 Pro, A18 Pro and A17 Pro: The Core Counts Apple Publishes
Apple names exactly one chip when it quotes a number for the A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro, and that chip is the A19 Pro from the iPhone 17 Pro generation. Against the A18 Pro in the iPhone 16 Pro, or the A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro, Apple has published no performance…