If iOS 27 does not appear in Software Update on Monday, or appears and refuses to download, Apple documents two things worth knowing before you touch anything else. The first is that “VPN or proxy connections might prevent your device from contacting the update servers.” The second is that Apple publishes a procedure for deleting…
Can You Go Back to iOS 26 After Installing iOS 27? Apple Publishes No Downgrade Path at All
Apple publishes no document describing how to return from one public release of iOS to an earlier one. Not a procedure, not a warning against it, not an acknowledgement that people want to, which means the honest answer to “can I go back to iOS 26 after installing iOS 27” is that Apple has never…
AirPods 5 Case Battery: 16 Hours in Reserve at $129, 17 Hours at $149
Apple publishes two battery numbers for each AirPods 5 model, one for the earbuds and one for the total with the case. Subtract the first from the second and the case reserve appears: 16 hours on the $129 AirPods 5, 17 hours on the $149 AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case. AirPods 5 buds are…
AirPods 5 Battery Life Differs by Model on Apple's Own Pages: 4 Hours or 5
Apple lists two different listening figures for AirPods 5 depending on which box you pick: up to four hours with Active Noise Cancellation on the $129 AirPods 5, and up to five hours on the $149 AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case. The total with the case splits the same way, 20 hours against 22.…
Apple Watch Health Features in 2026: Every Age and Eligibility Limit Apple Publishes
Several of the health features that sit on top of the new Health Sensing System in Apple Watch Series 12 are restricted by age, and two of them exclude people who already have a diagnosis. Apple publishes those limits in footnotes and support documents rather than on the pages that sell the watch. The redesigned…
iPhone Duo Adaptive Layouts: What Apple Says Happens to an App When You Close the Phone
Apple describes what happens when you fold the iPhone Duo shut in a single phrase: layouts that adapt to open, closed and posed positions. That is the extent of the consumer-facing explanation, and it is the one piece of iOS behaviour that no other iPhone has ever needed. Split View on the inner display, which…
iPhone Duo's Fold-Only Software: Six Features Only It Gets, Two Rebuilt, and Two That Are Not Exclusive
Apple has named six software features for the iPhone Duo that it lists for no other iPhone, rebuilt two features that already existed elsewhere, and described two more that sound fold-only but are not. The fold also ships on iOS 27.1 rather than the iOS 27 that reaches every other supported iPhone on Monday, September…
iPhone Duo Has Two Always-On Displays: ProMotion to 120Hz, Four Light Sensors and the Numbers Apple Left Out
The iPhone Duo is the first iPhone with two Always-On displays. Apple lists Always-On and ProMotion adaptive refresh up to 120Hz for both the 7.6-inch folding inner display and the 5.4-inch outer display, and it has not published how the two screens divide that job between them. Both iPhone Duo displays run ProMotion to 120Hz…
iPhone Duo's 5.4-Inch Cover Display: 460 ppi, 90 Percent of an iPhone 18 Pro and 44 Hours of Video
The iPhone Duo’s outer display is a 5.4-inch Super Retina XDR OLED at 1398 by 2034 pixels and 460 ppi, and Apple says it carries more than 90 percent of the screen area of the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro. It runs ProMotion up to 120Hz and Always-On, sits under Ceramic Shield 2, and is attached…
iPhone 18 Pro 4K120: The Four Video Settings Apple's Spec Sheet Will Not Let You Combine
The headline video number on iPhone 18 Pro is 4K Dolby Vision at 120 frames per second, and it is real, but it does not combine with everything else Apple lists. Cinematic mode stops at 4K Dolby Vision 60 fps, spatial video stops at 1080p at 30 fps, and ProRes reaches 4K120 only with external…