The iPhone 18 Pro carries two separate pieces of AI hardware inside the A20 Pro, and only one of them has a number attached. Apple quotes the dual 16-core Neural Engine at double the AI processing power of A19 Pro, and publishes no figure of any kind for the Neural Accelerators it names alongside it.…
iPhone Stuck on the Apple Logo After the iOS 27 Update: Apple's Four Documented Steps
If your iPhone sits on the Apple logo with a progress bar after installing iOS 27, Apple has a support document for precisely that screen, and almost nobody cites it. Article 102317 asks you to do one thing first, which is to let the device finish. iOS 27 reaches iPhone 11 and later on Monday,…
Apple Watch Series 12 Health Sensing System: The Sensors Apple Calls New, and the Four That Carry Over
Apple calls the sensor package in Apple Watch Series 12 the all-new Health Sensing System, and its own specification page puts four sensors under that name: an electrical heart sensor, an always-on optical heart sensor, a blood oxygen sensor and a temperature sensor. Only the heart sensors are described as new. Ceramic joins aluminum and…
Apple Watch Series 12's 60x Heart Rate Claim: What Apple Counts, and the Baseline It Never Published
Apple makes two frequency claims for the Health Sensing System in Apple Watch Series 12: 60 times more frequent background heart rate readings than Series 11, and 24 times more frequent heart rate variability readings. The absolute rates Apple prints beside them are a heart rate reading every five seconds through the day and an…
iPhone Duo's Folding Display Is Not Under Ceramic Shield: Apple's Polymer Cover and the 40 Percent Stiffness Claim
The iPhone Duo’s 7.6-inch folding display is the one screen on the phone that Apple does not put under Ceramic Shield. Apple’s press release describes a custom polymer with 40 percent higher stiffness than the industry standard, laid over high-strength glass layers and finished with a scratch-resistant coating, while the 5.4-inch outer display gets Ceramic…
iPhone 18 Pro Shoots 4K at 25 and 100 fps: The Two Frame Rates for 50 Hz Countries
The iPhone 18 Pro records 4K Dolby Vision video at 24, 25, 30, 60, 100 or 120 frames per second, and two of those six numbers exist for one region rather than one purpose. Broadcast and streaming delivery across most of the world outside North America runs at 25 frames per second, so Apple’s list…
iPhone 18 Pro Cost of Ownership Outside the US: A Price, a Finance Plan and No Coverage Figure
Every coverage price Apple has published for this launch is a US price. AppleCare One is $19.99 a month for up to three products with $5.99 for each device after that, and AppleCare One Family is $49.99 a month from September 14. Outside the US, a buyer ordering an iPhone 18 Pro today has a…
Apple's AirPods Range Is Now Four Prices: What the $20, $100 and $300 Steps Add
With AirPods 5 on sale, Apple’s headphone range comes down to four prices: $129, $149, $249 and $549. The steps between them are $20, $100 and $300, and each one buys something very different. AirPods 5 at $129 sets the floor of Apple's range. Image: Apple The cheapest step is the easiest to misread. Going…
iPhone 18 Pro Pro Controls: Apple Lists Four Manual Tools, and ISO Is Not One of Them
Apple describes Pro controls as a new customizable experience in the iPhone 18 Pro Camera app, with manual adjustment of lens aperture, shutter speed and white balance, plus a histogram for checking exposure. That is four items, and the one photographers will notice is missing: ISO appears nowhere in Apple’s published description. Aperture is one…
iOS 27 Still Supports iPhone SE, and Two Apple Pages Disagree on Which SE a New Watch Needs
iOS 27 still supports the iPhone SE. Apple’s compatibility list ends with “iPhone SE (2nd generation and later),” which is the only open-ended entry on a list that otherwise names all 33 iPhones individually, and the free update lands on Monday, September 14. Apple names 33 iPhones for iOS 27 and leaves one entry open-ended.…