Photos in iOS 27 lets you rate photos and videos from 1 to 5 stars and tag them with your own keywords, then filter or search your library by either. Ratings start with one switch: open Photos, tap Collections, tap your Apple Account profile, and turn on Show Ratings Controls. A sample photo from the…
How to show your front and back cameras at once in a FaceTime call
On an iPhone 17 or later running iOS 27, you can share both cameras in a one-on-one FaceTime call, so the other person sees your face in a small window over whatever your rear camera is pointed at. During the call, tap your own tile, then tap the Flip to Back Camera button, and both…
Apple is reportedly fixing Readiness delays on Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12
Apple is working on fixes for Readiness scores that are slow to update on Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12, according to Ray Maker’s in-depth Ultra 4 review at DC Rainmaker, published September 17. After his watches took up to four hours to show a score, he writes: “Apple says they’re working on it,…
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max repair manual is out, but you can't buy the parts yet
Apple published its full Self Service Repair manual for iPhone 18 Pro Max on September 18, the day the phone reached customers: 23 support documents covering everything from the display and battery to the logic board. What you can’t do yet is order anything it describes. When we checked on September 19, Apple’s Self Service…
Siri AI's Expressive Voices run on five iPhones, and iPhone 17 isn't one
Siri AI’s Expressive Voices, which let you change how fast and how animated Siri sounds, work on five iPhones: iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. That is Apple’s own list, from a footnote in its iOS 27 iPhone User Guide. The four iPhone 18…
iOS 27 known issues: Writing Tools can freeze and reminders lose their titles
If Writing Tools stops responding in Messages, or a reminder you made from a chat has no title, your iPhone isn’t at fault. Both bugs are listed as known issues in Apple’s own iOS 27 release notes, and Apple gives a workaround for each: force quit Messages for the first, and type the title in…
Apple now lists French and German for the shorter 'Siri' wake word
iPhone owners who speak French or German to Siri can drop the “Hey”. Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 27 feature availability page now lists French (France) and German (Germany) under “Activate with Siri”, the option that wakes the assistant when you say just “Siri”, and it adds eight languages to Visual Look Up. iOS 27 and…
Apple Intelligence bundles Home app alerts by default: here's the off switch
If your Home accessory alerts now arrive as one summary, Apple Intelligence is doing it, and it is on unless you switch it off. Apple’s support document on the Home app, published September 16, says Reduced Notifications is on by default, while Summarize Videos, which captions security camera clips, starts off. The Apple logo. Apple…
Child safety group's vans targeted John Ternus at Apple Fifth Avenue, per report
A child safety group lined Fifth Avenue with lit-up vans aimed at John Ternus as he opened Apple’s flagship New York store for the iPhone 18 Pro launch on September 18, according to AppleInsider. The group, Heat Initiative, wants Apple to do more to stop child sexual abuse material spreading through iCloud and to protect…
Omdia: Apple grew earbud shipments to 16.8 million in Q2 as the market shrank
Apple shipped 16.8 million true wireless earbuds in the second quarter of 2026, up 1.2 percent from a year earlier, while the market as a whole shrank, according to research firm Omdia. That gave Apple a 20.5 percent share of the 82.1 million units shipped worldwide, almost double second-place Xiaomi. AirPods 5, which Apple markets…