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iPhone Duo: the best foldable software yet, on the heaviest iPhone Apple has shipped
Apple's $1,999 foldable solves the software half of the problem and loses the hardware half. At 254 grams it outweighs every Android foldable on sale.
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Apple Watch's Secure Exclave: raw audio stays in silicon, the summary goes to Apple's servers
Apple's S11 chip walls microphone audio off from watchOS, apps and Apple itself. The condensed text of a Siri Recap still travels to Private Cloud Compute.
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Phil Schiller stepped down from the App Store and Apple's events as John Ternus took over
Phil Schiller has stopped running Apple's App Store and product launches. Eddy Cue takes the store back while the EU and DOJ fights continue.
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Apple's first 2nm chip landed in the $899 Mac mini. The $5,499 Mac Studio ships M5 silicon.
The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip and it debuts in the cheapest desktop. Mac Studio gets M5 Max and a quad-die M5 Ultra. M6 caps out at 32GB of unified memory.
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Apple is testing Chinese memory chips for iPhones and Macs despite a bipartisan Senate warning
The Wall Street Journal says Apple is qualifying CXMT DRAM for iPhones and MacBooks. Export rules bar the spec work Apple normally does with a supplier.
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Tim Cook says heavy Siri AI users may buy more compute on iCloud+. The plan isn't finished
On his final earnings call, Tim Cook said Apple will offer Siri AI upgrades through iCloud+ for heavy users. No price and no tier have been announced.
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Apple considered camera-free smart glasses ahead of a planned WWDC 2027 debut
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is aiming for a WWDC 2027 reveal of its first smart glasses, with privacy features and even a camera-free build under discussion.
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Apple's new Klarna-backed lease covers almost every device. The cheapest ones are excluded
Apple will reportedly launch 'Apple Upgrade' on July 28, a Klarna-backed lease-to-own plan for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Watch. The catch: entry-level models are excluded.
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World Leaks stole 630GB from Tata Electronics and leaked Apple's iPhone 18 Pro files
World Leaks stole roughly 630GB from Apple assembly partner Tata Electronics and dumped iPhone 18 Pro supply-chain files online. India opened a criminal probe.
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Apple's foldable iPhone was stalling on its hinge. New leaked cases say it's back on for September.
Leaked case renders and design mockups put the foldable iPhone Ultra back on a September track, with a near-creaseless screen, dual rear cameras, and a possible white-only finish.
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$38 billion in fines was on the table. Apple just agreed to show India its revenue.
Apple agreed to hand the Competition Commission of India its local financials by June 25, removing its last shield against a fine reported at up to $38 billion.
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iOS 27's first leaked renders: a rebuilt Siri chatbot, days before WWDC
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman published the first iOS 27 renders 11 days before WWDC, showing a rebuilt Siri, a pro Camera mode, and new Photos AI. Apple hasn't confirmed any of it.
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Apple is testing an anti-snatch feature that locks the iPhone the second it's grabbed
Code seen by 9to5Mac points to an iPhone feature that auto-locks when the accelerometer detects a snatch, then clamps down like Stolen Device Protection.
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Apple is opening AirPlay's slot in iOS 27. Google Cast can become the default on EU iPhones.
Mark Gurman's Sunday Power On says iOS 27 will let users pick Google Cast or another protocol over AirPlay for system-level streaming, to satisfy the EU DMA.
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Apple shipped formal proofs for its post-quantum crypto. 2.5 billion devices now run verified code.
Apple's SEAR team published formal verification proofs for corecrypto's ML-KEM and ML-DSA implementations. 50,000 proof steps cover 2.5 billion active devices.
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Apple solved the iPhone Fold crease. The hinge is what's stalling production.
Trial production of Apple's foldable iPhone hit a wall on hinge durability. The crease problem is over; the rattle isn't.
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iOS 26.5 brings encrypted texting between iPhone and Android. Group chats and metadata still leak.
Apple and Google began rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS on May 11. The MLS-based encryption rides on GSMA Universal Profile 3.0, but EFF says the rollout leaves real gaps.
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Apple and Google are bringing hardware attestation to the web. GrapheneOS says it's a monopoly play.
Google's reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will require a certified iOS or Android device to pass some captchas, even on desktop. GrapheneOS calls the pattern anti-competitive.