iPhone 16 Plus was removed from Apple’s store on September 9, the same day Apple raised the price of every other iPhone it kept. It was the last Plus-size iPhone Apple was still selling new, and Apple has not released a Plus model since 2024. iPhone 16 Plus had carried that second-size, non-Pro option through…
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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…
Apple Reference Image Is a First for iPhone, and It Skips the EU and China
Apple Reference Image is a new capture mode built into the camera system on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, and Apple has never published a feature like it for any earlier iPhone. It is opt-in, it records signed sensor data to build what Apple calls an unalterable reference image, and Apple’s own…
iPhone 18 Pro in Australia: Why the Storage Jump Costs More Than It Does in the US
Apple’s Australian store prices iPhone 18 Pro from A$2,099 at 256GB up to A$4,499 at 2TB, more than doubling across the range. The same move in the US, from $1,199 to $2,399, exactly doubles. The recurring complaint that storage costs Australian buyers proportionally more than it costs American ones holds up once Apple’s own price…
iPhone 18 Pro costs C$1,749 in Canada, and iPhone Duo sits just under C$3,000
Apple’s Canadian store lists iPhone 18 Pro from C$1,749, iPhone Duo from C$2,999, Apple Watch Ultra 4 from C$1,099 and Apple Watch Series 12 from C$549. Every one of those four figures sits just past a round number a shopper would use to judge the price at a glance. The recurring complaint that Canadian pricing…
iPhone 18 Pro in India: The Price Complaint Apple Answers, and the Import Question It Does Not
Apple India lists iPhone 18 Pro from ₹1,64,900 and iPhone 18 Pro Max from ₹1,79,900, among the highest starting figures Apple publishes anywhere for this phone. That price gap is the complaint most people expect. The one Apple’s own India pages actually leave open is different: what happens to a unit bought outside India, and…
iPhone Duo's 44-Hour Battery Claim Is Real, but It Is Not the Whole Number
Apple does publish a 44-hour battery figure for iPhone Duo, so the number itself is not invented. What is getting flattened into a single headline is that 44 hours applies only to video playback on the phone’s outer display. Apple’s own tech specs list two lower figures alongside it, for the inner display and for…
iPhone Duo Colors: Why Night Sky and Star White Are Not the Dark Blue Everyone Expected
iPhone Duo does not come in a color called dark blue. Apple’s own product page and press release name exactly two finishes for the foldable iPhone: Night Sky and Star White. The “dark blue and white” description that circulated before the keynote, and that is still showing up in pre-order conversation, describes a color that…
iOS 27 Update FAQ: The Six Questions Apple's Own Pages Already Answer
iOS 27 becomes a free update for a long list of iPhones on Monday, September 14, and the oldest model that qualifies is the iPhone 11 and the iPhone SE (2nd generation), not the iPhone 12 that keeps getting repeated. Six questions cover most of what people are typing into search this week, and Apple’s…
No Physical SIM Anywhere? What Apple Actually Says About iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro
“No physical SIM anywhere” is not quite what Apple says. Apple names a specific list of 12 places where iPhone 18 Pro drops its SIM tray, and separately states that iPhone Duo has no SIM tray in any market it sells in at all. Those are two different facts about two different phones, and they…
Can iPhone 18 Pro Drive an External Display Over USB-C Like iPhone Duo Can?
Probably not. Apple’s tech specs page for iPhone 18 Pro lists its USB-C port as USB 3, up to 10Gb/s, and does not mention DisplayPort anywhere on that page. The tech specs page for iPhone Duo lists the identical USB 3 speed and then adds DisplayPort as a separate line. Apple has not published a…
iPhone 18 Pro vapor chamber: Here's what Apple's 3x and 40% claims measure
Apple attaches three separate numbers to iPhone 18 Pro performance, and two of them are 40 percent. The next-generation vapor chamber has three times the surface area of the one in iPhone 17 Pro. Apple says it works with the A20 Pro chip design to deliver up to 40 percent better sustained performance than iPhone…
iPhone 18 Pro Photos and AI Watermarks: What Apple's SynthID Footnote Says
Not right away, and not for every photo. Apple’s own footnote for iPhone 18 Pro’s camera features says SynthID, the AI-content watermark it is adopting from Google, “will be available in a software update later this year and will be included for most edited images, depending on the edits applied.” It will not be active…
iPhone 18 Pro and Apple Intelligence: The Features the New Chip Does Not Add
The iPhone 18 Pro’s A20 Pro chip does not unlock a single Apple Intelligence feature that the iPhone 17 Pro does not already have. Apple’s own device list for the more advanced AI tier, the one covering Siri voice customization and improved on-device Dictation, names iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air…
iPhone Won't Charge After the iOS 27 Update? Apple Documents Heat as a Cause, Not a Fault
A phone that will not charge, or charges slower than expected, right after a major update is a specific enough scare that Apple has a dedicated support page for it. The explanation is heat, and Apple treats it as expected behavior rather than damage. A major software update is one of the causes Apple names…
iPhone Running Warm After iOS 27? Apple's Documented Range Is 0 to 35 Degrees C
Apple has a page for this, and it names the exact situation. Among the activities Apple lists as normal causes of a warm iPhone or iPad is one line that applies directly to Monday: “Complete a software update, particularly to a major release.” Apple built a next-generation vapor chamber into the A20 Pro package, a…
iOS 27 Battery Drain Fix: Apple's Own Advice Is to Wait a Few Days
If an iPhone or iPad seems to burn through battery faster than usual in the days after installing iOS 27, Apple has already answered the question. It just answered it on a support page about battery drain in general, not on the update page, and the answer is to wait. iOS 27 installs on every…
iPhone 18 Pro gets 14-day price protection and a 60-day window to add AppleCare
Apple guarantees a refund of the difference if it cuts the price of an iPhone 18 Pro within 14 calendar days of when you receive it. Adding AppleCare runs on a longer clock: Apple’s AppleCare page gives you 60 days after a new Apple purchase to get a plan through the Settings app. Apple's price-protection…
The Six Days Before iPhone 18 Pro Arrives: What Apple Has Published About Getting Ready
Between Saturday’s pre-order and Friday’s delivery, Apple has published exactly one dated event that touches the phone you are still carrying: iOS 27 ships free on Monday, September 14, four days before iPhone 18 Pro itself arrives. Past that single date, and past the short prep list Apple sends to anyone trading in a device,…
iPhone 18 Pro Shipping Terms: What Apple Publishes About Delivery, and the Silence on Store Pickup
Apple names two delivery speeds for iPhone 18 Pro and tells buyers a final date arrives only after the order is placed. What is missing from the pages we have on file for this launch is any mention of in-store pickup by name, so buyers weighing delivery against picking a unit up in person are…
Cancelling an iPhone 18 Pro Order: The Apple Upgrade Lease Carries a Penalty a Cash Purchase Does Not
Cancelling an iPhone 18 Pro order works one way if you paid outright or financed it with Apple Card Monthly Installments, and a different way if you leased it through Apple Upgrade. Apple’s published terms describe a refund for the first group and a warning about a substantial charge for the second, and the two…
iPhone 18 Pro Orders: What Apple's Terms Say Can Change After You Check Out
Apple’s published sales terms describe exactly one set of things that can change about an iPhone 18 Pro order once it is placed, and almost all of them belong to Apple, not the buyer. The price can change. The number of units available can change, even after an order is in. Whether Apple accepts the…
iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Order Times in Australia and Canada: One Published Clock Each, Two Different Problems
Apple’s Australian and Canadian iPhone 18 Pro pre-order pages each publish exactly one time. Neither is as simple as it looks. Australia’s single time zone does not match the actual clock for a large share of the country, and Canada’s single time zone is not a Canadian one at all. iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders opened…
iPhone 18 Pro Financing Abroad: Four Named Companies, and Six Storefronts That Name None
Apple names an actual financing company for iPhone 18 Pro on only four of the ten storefronts we checked: Klarna in the US, Openbank in Germany, Cetelem in France and Paidy in Japan. The other six storefronts either show no financing option at all or describe one without saying who provides it. iPhone 18 Pro…