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…
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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…
iOS 27 dictation improves spelling and punctuation in English on select iPhones
With Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, dictation uses an on-device model to improve spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Apple says it’s available in English on “iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, or later,” and its feature availability page lists nine varieties of English. The A20 Pro chip in iPhone 18 Pro. Image: Apple…
iPhone Pro's Frame Has Switched Metal Twice Since 2021: Steel, Titanium, Now Aluminum
iPhone 18 Pro’s aluminum unibody frame is not a new decision. It is the second metal Apple’s Pro iPhone line has landed on since 2021, after a run in stainless steel and a run in titanium. Apple’s own tech specs pages, read side by side, show exactly when each switch happened and how long each…
Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue Are Gone: The iPhone Pro Colors That Did Not Return
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max shipped a year ago in Silver, Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max ship in Black, Silver, Glacier and Burgundy. Two names from last year, Cosmic Orange and Deep Blue, do not appear anywhere on Apple’s new color lineup, and Apple’s own newsroom release confirms…
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: The Discontinuation Apple Never Announced
iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max stopped being available for purchase from Apple on September 9, the day iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max were announced. Apple’s own store pages for both phones now redirect to the new models. Nowhere in Apple’s newsroom release, or anywhere else Apple publishes, does a sentence…
iPhone 18 Pro Cameras: Apple Took Four Years to Get Every Rear Lens to 48MP
All three rear cameras on the iPhone 18 Pro are 48MP, and Apple took four years to get there. The first 48MP sensor arrived on the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, the Ultra Wide followed in 2024, and the telephoto only caught up last year. The 48MP main camera was the…
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Share One Set of Dimensions: 150.0 x 71.9 x 8.75 mm, With 5 Grams Between Them
Apple publishes the same three measurements for the iPhone 18 Pro as it did for last year’s iPhone 17 Pro: 150.0 mm tall, 71.9 mm wide and 8.75 mm deep. The two Pro Max models match each other the same way, at 163.4 x 78.0 x 8.75 mm. The 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch iPhone 18 Pro,…
A20 Pro vs A19 Pro, A18 Pro and A17 Pro: The Core Counts Apple Publishes
Apple names exactly one chip when it quotes a number for the A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro, and that chip is the A19 Pro from the iPhone 17 Pro generation. Against the A18 Pro in the iPhone 16 Pro, or the A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro, Apple has published no performance…
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro for Video: Apple Lists the Same Four Capabilities on Both
Read Apple’s comparison page one row at a time and the video line for iPhone 18 Pro says 4K Dolby Vision up to 120 fps, ProRes RAW, Genlock and Apple Log 2. The video line for iPhone 17 Pro says the same four things. On the formats a phone can record, Apple is claiming no…
Will Your iPhone 17 Pro Case Fit the iPhone 18 Pro? What Apple's Own Numbers Show
Apple lists the iPhone 18 Pro at 150.0 by 71.9 by 8.75 mm. It lists the iPhone 17 Pro at 150.0 by 71.9 by 8.75 mm. The two are identical to the tenth of a millimetre, and so are the big pair: iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro Max are both 163.4 by…
Buying an iPhone 17 Pro in Late 2026: Still a Great Phone, or a False Economy?
The iPhone 17 Pro is still a very good phone, and you cannot buy one from Apple. It was discontinued on September 9, and Apple’s Certified Refurbished store had no iPhone 17 generation device listed as of September 10, with no published schedule for when one appears. The variable aperture is the clearest camera difference…
What Apple Quietly Stopped Selling on September 9, and What to Do If You Wanted One
Apple spent September 9 introducing hardware. It also stopped selling a long list of it, and said nothing about any of that. The two biggest departures are iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, discontinued one year after they launched at $1,099 and $1,199, followed by iPhone 16 Plus, which is simply gone from…
Apple No Longer Sells the iPhone 17 Pro: What to Buy Instead Now Older iPhones Cost $100 More
The oldest trick in iPhone buying, waiting for the new Pro so you can pick up last year’s Pro cheaply, does not work in 2026. Apple has stopped selling iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, and the four older iPhones it kept are each listed $100 higher on its store than they were…
iPhone Duo vs iPhone 17 Pro: $900 More Than Last Year's Pro, and What the 7.6-Inch Screen Buys
iPhone Duo costs $1,999, which is $900 more than the $1,099 an iPhone 17 Pro cost at launch, and for that you get a 7.6-inch inner display in place of a 6.3-inch one, a 5.4-inch outer screen, the A20 Pro, a 2TB option and up to 44 hours of video playback with the phone closed.…
iPhone Pro Color History: Every Finish From iPhone 15 Pro to iPhone 18 Pro, and Which Came and Went
Four Pro generations, 15 finishes: from four titanium shades on iPhone 15 Pro to Black, Silver, Glacier and Burgundy on iPhone 18 Pro. What came and went.
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro Camera: Fixed f/1.78 vs Variable Aperture, and Everything That Stayed the Same
iPhone 18 Pro changes one lens: its 48MP main goes from fixed f/1.78 to four stops, f/1.48 to f/4.0. Ultra Wide, telephoto, selfie and video match 17 Pro.
iPhone Pro Telephoto History: 3x, 5x, 4x Tetraprism and Now 8x Optical-Quality
iPhone 18 Pro keeps the 48MP 100 mm 4x tetraprism with a 12MP 8x crop at 200 mm. How Apple’s Pro telephoto went from 3x to 5x to 8x since iPhone 13 Pro.
iPhone 18 Pro Fast Charging vs 17 Pro, 16 Pro and 15 Pro: 15, 20 and 30 Minutes to 50 Percent
The iPhone 18 Pro reaches 50 percent charge in around 15 minutes on a 60W USB-C adapter, according to Apple’s tech specs. That is five minutes quicker than the iPhone 17 Pro’s 20-minute claim with a 40W adapter, and half the roughly 30 minutes Apple quoted for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro.…
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro Price by Country: How Much More You Pay in the US, Canada, UK, India, Japan and More
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 in the US, $100 more than the iPhone 17 Pro did at launch, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max starts at $1,299, also up $100.
iPhone 18 Pro Max vs iPhone 17 Pro: Moving Up to the Big Pro
Moving from an iPhone 17 Pro to an iPhone 18 Pro Max takes you from a 6.3-inch display to 6.9 inches, from Apple’s 33-hour video rating to 45 hours, and from a $1,099 launch price to $1,299 for 256GB. It also adds 43 grams and 13.4 mm of height, which is the part of this…
Every iPhone Apple Sells Now: iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, 17, 17 Pro and Air Compared
Apple’s iPhone range now spans six phones with confirmed specifications: the new iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199 and iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299, plus the 2025 iPhone 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, iPhone 17 and iPhone Air. Screen sizes run from 6.3 to 6.9 inches, video playback from 27 to 45 hours, and top…
Should You Upgrade to iPhone 18 Pro? An Honest Answer for iPhone 15 Pro, 16 Pro and 17 Pro Owners
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299, $100 more than last year’s models, and both bring the A20 Pro chip, a variable aperture main camera and longer battery life. Whether that is worth it depends on which iPhone you own now. The design carries over from the…
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: 8 Differences That Decide Whether You Should Upgrade
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199, $100 more than the iPhone 17 Pro did at launch, and for that Apple has changed the chip, the main camera, the Dynamic Island, the battery rating, the storage ceiling, the colors and the rear finish. The design itself carries over from the 17 Pro generation. That makes…