Beta code in iOS 27.2 points to an erase that overwrites an iPhone’s whole drive in China, tracking a mandatory standard that takes effect in 2027.
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Siri AI launched in English only, with five more languages due in October
Siri AI arrived on September 14 in beta, and it speaks one language. Apple’s own announcement says support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish is coming next month, which puts the next five somewhere in October. No date, and no version number. The Apple logo. Image: Apple If your iPhone is set to any…
Apple's redesigned Health app is inside the first iOS 27.2 beta
Apple’s redesigned Health app is already running inside the first iOS 27.2 beta, and the proof is a bug Apple logged against it. The beta release notes posted on September 16 carry a Health entry under Known Issues: “Personalized summaries may not generate as expected in the Insights tab. (186964423)” The Health app insights and…
Apple confirms iPhone Duo runs iOS 27.1 when it arrives October 23
Apple has confirmed that iOS 27.1 exists and said what it is for. In a developer post dated September 16, Apple wrote that iPhone Duo will run iOS 27.1 when it becomes available on October 23, and that a beta of Xcode 27.1, with a simulator for the foldable, arrives later this month. iPhone Duo's…
Apple rewrites the EU tracking prompt in iOS 27.2 and renames the switch
If you use an iPhone in the European Union, the tracking box you tap away on every new app is being rewritten, and the Settings switch behind it gets a longer name. Apple told developers on September 16 that beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, apps in the EU can use an alternative version…
X Corp. and SpaceXAI drop antitrust claims against Apple, keep suing OpenAI
X Corp. and SpaceXAI have asked a federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple, saying they “have resolved their claims” against the company. The September 14 motion asks for dismissal with prejudice, which means the same claims can’t be filed again, and it says Apple does not oppose it.…
Apple General Counsel Jennifer Newstead Sold Shares Twice in September
Jennifer Newstead, Apple’s senior vice president, general counsel and government affairs, sold Apple shares on two separate dates this month, according to Form 4 filings with the SEC: 1,439 shares on September 1, 2026, and 1,438 shares on September 8, 2026. Both filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan Newstead…
Apple Pay Reaches 89 Markets While Tap to Pay on iPhone Covers Just 50, and They Are Not the Same Service
Apple Pay and Tap to Pay on iPhone are not the same service. Apple Pay is the consumer feature that lets an iPhone or Apple Watch pay at a register, available in 89 markets by Apple’s own count. Tap to Pay on iPhone is the merchant feature that turns an iPhone into the register itself,…
iPhone Duo: Four Questions Its Own Developer Site Still Cannot Answer
Apple has told app developers a great deal about building for iPhone Duo since the September 9 keynote. It has not answered four practical questions that decide whether an ordinary app works well on it, and five weeks before the October 23 launch, none of the four has a stated answer on Apple’s own developer…
Apple Supplier TSMC Posts Record NT$514.8 Billion August Revenue, Up 53 Percent From a Year Ago
TSMC, the Taiwanese chipmaker that manufactures Apple’s iPhone and Mac processors, reported August 2026 revenue of NT$514.81 billion, up 10.1 percent from July and up 53.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the company’s own release. TSMC’s release does not break out revenue by customer and does not name Apple anywhere in it, so…
18 Groups Tell Brussels Apple's October 1 EU App Store Terms Still Break the DMA
Eighteen organisations, coordinated by the Coalition for App Fairness, told the European Commission in a September 8, 2026 open letter that Apple’s revised App Store terms, due to take effect October 1, still do not comply with the Digital Markets Act. The letter carries no legal force by itself; it asks the Commission to consult…
Apple Faces £2 Billion UK Lawsuit Over App Tracking Transparency, Filed September 3
A new claim filed at the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on September 3, 2026 alleges that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework held outside app developers to stricter rules than Apple applied to its own services, at a cost the claim puts as high as £2 billion. The tribunal has not certified the claim and nothing…
Apple and India's CCI: The Fight Over a $38 Billion Fine Formula
India’s Competition Commission has been sitting on a completed antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store since 2021. The fight this month is not over the underlying conduct but over how large a fine the regulator is allowed to calculate, a dispute paused in the Delhi High Court with no new order found since mid-July. A…
Apple and Japan's Smartphone Act: A Compliance Report and a Fairness Complaint
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission published Apple’s second compliance report under the Mobile Software Competition Act on July 27, 2026, and on August 21, an industry coalition told the same regulator that the report shows an unwillingness to comply rather than compliance. A presenter on stage at Apple Park. Japan is also one of the first…
Apple's UK Steering Proposal: The CMA Has Had Responses for a Month, No Decision Yet
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority proposed in June 2026 to make Apple and Google let developers steer users toward payment options outside their app stores, calling it a Steering Conduct Requirement. The consultation closed seven weeks ago, the CMA published the responses it received a month ago, and its own case page still shows…
Apple's EU Interoperability Report: The Numbers Behind 102 Requests
Apple has published its own account of how the European Union’s interoperability rules are working in practice. The report covers 102 requests logged between May 9 and December 31, 2025, counts 22 of them resolved with a released solution, and records zero instances where Apple says it missed one of the regulation’s own deadlines. Apple's…
Apple's EU Gatekeeper Status: The July Ruling and This Month's Appeal Deadline
The General Court of the European Union dismissed every action Apple brought against its designation as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act on July 8, 2026. The court’s own procedural rule gives Apple two months and ten days after formal notification of that judgment to appeal to the Court of Justice, a window whose…
iPhone Duo's Specs Page: Four Details Apple Added Since the September 9 Keynote
Apple has not changed iPhone Duo’s price, colors or October dates since the September 9 keynote. But four details on Apple’s own live pages were never part of the announcement itself, and none of them appear in the coverage written the day of the event. They surface only in the tech specs page’s footnotes, or…
Apple Reportedly Asked a Judge to Let It Charge Up to 15% on US App Store Link-Out Sales
Apple has reportedly proposed a tiered commission on US App Store purchases that happen after a customer taps a link out of an app to pay on the web, according to court filings described in reports this week. The reported rates run as high as 15 percent, with lower tiers for specific programs, submitted in…
Gurman Calls iPhone Duo One of Apple’s Most Important Products Ever
Mark Gurman believes the iPhone Duo has the potential to sit just below Apple’s most influential products.
John Ternus's First SEC Filing as CEO Lists 306,231 Restricted Stock Units
John Ternus filed two documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, 2026, the day he became Apple’s chief executive: a Form 3, disclosing his starting stock position, and a Form 4, reporting a new restricted stock unit award. Together they are the first official record of what Apple’s new CEO owns and…
Apple's SEC Filing Sets John Ternus's CEO Pay at a $3 Million Salary
Apple’s compensation committee set John Ternus’s salary as chief executive at $3 million a year, and gave Tim Cook a $2 million salary as Executive Chair, according to a Form 8-K/A the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 1, 2026. The filing is Apple’s own document, not a news release, and…
Apple's Q4 FY2026 Earnings Date: Not Yet Announced, Here Is the Pattern
Apple has not announced a date for its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call. Its investor relations and earnings-call pages, current as of this writing, list nothing beyond the July 30, 2026 report for the third quarter. Anyone searching for when Apple reports next is looking for a date the company has simply not published yet.…
Apple's New Leadership Structure: John Ternus Is CEO, Tim Cook Is Executive Chairman
John Ternus became Apple’s chief executive officer on September 1, 2026. Tim Cook, who held the job for more than a decade, moved into a new role as Executive Chairman of Apple’s board. Arthur Levinson, the board’s non-executive chairman for the past 15 years, became lead independent director on the same date. Apple announced the…