Apple has never published how long an iOS update takes to install. Not for iOS 27, not for any earlier release, and not for any iPhone model, which means every “20 to 30 minutes” figure you will read on Monday is somebody’s estimate presented as fact. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max ship with iOS…
iPhone 18 Pro Max: Five Minutes of Charging, Seven Hours of Video, and No Figure for the Smaller Pro
Buried in Apple’s September 9 announcement is the only iPhone charging claim this year written in hours rather than percentages: five minutes on a cable gives the iPhone 18 Pro Max about seven hours of video playback. Apple published no equivalent figure for the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro, and none for wireless charging on either…
iPhone 18 Pro Picks Its Own Aperture: The Three Scenes Apple Says Move the Blades
Most iPhone 18 Pro owners will never open the manual aperture control, and Apple has designed for that. Its announcement says the camera can adjust the aperture on its own, and it names three situations: f/1.48 for low light, f/1.8 for portraits, and f/4 for group photos with greater depth of field. The wide end…
iPhone 18 Pro Loses 3 Hours When the Video Streams, and the Pro Max Loses 5
Apple rates the iPhone 18 Pro for up to 36 hours of video playback and up to 33 hours of streamed video, and the Pro Max for 45 and 40. Streaming costs the smaller phone 3 hours and the larger one 5, and Apple publishes both numbers without ever explaining the difference. iPhone 18 Pro…
iPhone 18 Pro's Six Laser-Cut Blades: How Apple Fits a Moving Aperture Inside a Phone
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro main camera has a physical aperture that moves. Six laser-cut blades open and close behind the 48MP Fusion main lens, and Apple’s tech specs list four marked positions for them: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8 and f/4.0. The 48MP Fusion main camera is the only lens on iPhone 18 Pro with a moving…
Apple Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 and AirPods 5: Still No Published UK Price Six Days Before Launch
Apple has published starting prices for iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo on all ten of the storefronts we track, but its Apple Watch and AirPods prices have holes, and the largest one is British. Six days before Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and AirPods 5 reach stores,…
Siri AI Ships on Five Operating Systems, and tvOS Is Not One of Them
Apple’s own sentence names five operating systems: “Siri AI is available in beta in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.” tvOS is not in it, and Apple TV and HomePod appear nowhere on the Apple Intelligence device list, even though both are Siri devices today. The new assistant arrives with…
iPhone Duo Open Is Wider Than an iPhone 18 Pro Max Is Tall: Every Dimension Compared
Opened out, the iPhone Duo measures 164.6 mm across, which is 1.2 mm more than the 163.4 mm height of an iPhone 18 Pro Max. Closed, it covers less desk than an iPhone 18 Pro does, at 84.1 mm by 117.8 mm against 71.9 mm by 150.0 mm. iPhone Duo open, 164.6 mm wide and…
Can You Pre-Order Two iPhone 18 Pros? The Only Published Limit Is in Singapore
Two people in one household both want an iPhone 18 Pro when pre-orders open at 5 a.m. PT today, and the obvious question is whether Apple will let one of them order both. The only per-customer limit Apple publishes anywhere for these models is on its Singapore store page, which caps buyers at two iPhone…
Apple Intelligence's Third Tier Holds Two Features, and Only Six iPhones Get Them
Apple Intelligence has a tier above the full feature set, and Apple names exactly two features in it: Siri voice customization, which adjusts pitch, speed, tone and accent, and an improved on-device Dictation model. Six iPhones qualify. iOS 27 arrives Monday, September 14, with the Apple Intelligence feature set split across hardware tiers. Image: Apple…