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…
Apple's settlement with Musk's X stays secret as judge denies OpenAI's bid
The terms of Apple’s settlement with Elon Musk’s X Corp. and SpaceXAI will stay confidential. After reading the agreement in private, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled on September 17 that it holds nothing relevant to the case that continues against OpenAI, and he denied OpenAI’s emergency motion to see it. A presenter on stage…
How to resize a widget on your iPhone Home Screen without deleting it
A widget that is the wrong size can be fixed where it sits. Touch and hold it on the Home Screen, choose a different widget size from the menu that appears, and the widget changes in place. No removing it, no hunting through the widget gallery to add it again. iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.…
Apple's own pages disagree on when Apple Intelligence limits start
Apple’s marketing page says server-side Apple Intelligence features “are subject to daily usage limits”, in the present tense. Apple’s support document on the same subject says Apple “will implement usage limits” on those features “in the future”. Both pages still read that way on September 19, neither gives a number, and an owner cannot tell…
Apple's $250 million Siri settlement: who qualifies and how claims will work
Apple’s $250 million settlement over its delayed Siri features pays a presumptive $25 per eligible iPhone, and each payment can rise to a cap of $95 if fewer people claim than expected. It covers anyone who bought an iPhone 16, iPhone 16e, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro…
Apple reportedly accepts pricier 2027 memory, a cost risk for iPhone 18 and 18e
Apple has accepted sharply higher Samsung memory prices for the first quarter of 2027, according to a DigiTimes report published September 16. If the report is right, that lands in the same window in which the standard iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are widely expected, so memory for those phones would cost Apple more just…
Apple settled 20 AirTag stalking lawsuits in two months, its court brief says
Apple settled 20 AirTag stalking lawsuits in roughly two months this summer, according to its own brief to the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. That is about half of all the cases brought over the tracker, and the panel hears argument on September 24 in Chicago on whether the rest should be folded into…
Counterpoint: iPhone 18 Pro day-one demand in India up 15% to 28% on last year
Preliminary estimates from Counterpoint Research put launch-day demand for the iPhone 18 Pro series in India 15% to 28% above last year’s iPhone 17 Pro, depending on the city, Business Standard reported on September 18, the day the phones went on sale there. Counterpoint’s research director Tarun Pathak gave no figure of his own on…
Apple says iPhone 17 Pro cases aren't made for iPhone 18 Pro, over a 0.1mm gap
Apple doesn’t consider iPhone 17 Pro cases compatible with iPhone 18 Pro, because the new phone’s camera plateau is slightly thicker, Apple told Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. By his caliper, the difference is one-tenth of a millimeter, and in his testing the old cases fit the new phones “perfectly”. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18…
Apple Watch Series 12 heart rate nearly matched a chest strap in a new test
Apple Watch Series 12’s new heart rate sensor tracked almost exactly with a Polar H10 chest strap in the first round of testing by Rob ter Horst, who runs The Quantified Scientist YouTube channel. In his own testing, the watch scored correlations of a rounded 1.0 for indoor cycling, 0.98 for running and 0.97 for…