Apple Store goes dark before iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders
The storefront shows a glowing logo and a 5 a.m. Pacific promise, while the 18 Pro buy page still lets you pick a color and storage ahead of the queue.
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Apple news, iOS rollouts, and the rumor mill, filtered down to what actually changes for iPhoners.
Apple is back on TIME's best-companies list, at third
A 93.16 score puts Apple behind Nvidia and Cigna after a year off the ranking, and its sustainability transparency mark slid from first to 24th.
Live Rewind warns the room, Siri Recap doesn't
Audio dies inside the S11's Secure Exclave, summaries last seven days, but the person across the table gets a chime for one feature and nothing for the other.
iPhone 18 Pro vs 17 Pro: new aperture, same telephoto
Four lines on Apple's sheet change for a 17 Pro owner: chip, cooling, f-stops, and battery, while display sizes, zoom, and 25W MagSafe carry over.
The iPhone Duo screen is an IMAX frame, minus 11 pixels
IMAX's official account joked it still won't watch movies on a phone, but a 1.43:1 print fits the Duo's inner panel with less letterbox than a 16:9 show.
Apple's October has seven products and no event date yet
Two M6 Macs and an OLED iPad mini look solid for the month; the touchscreen MacBook Ultra and the home hub are the two that Bloomberg hedges.
Edge Light may reach the iPhone Duo, per iOS 27 RC code
The Mac's ring-light trick turns up in the iOS 27 release candidate tied to one device subtype, the foldable, with its warmth slider still unfinished.
iPhone Duo forecast: 5 million, a quarter of all foldables
Foldable shipments stay flat at 20.2 million this year, so Apple's projected 24.8 percent comes out of Android makers' totals rather than new buyers.
Visual Intelligence may get sponsored results in iOS 27
Code in the iOS 27 betas lets Google and other providers slot paid product tiles into the camera's shopping results, with Apple not selling the space itself.
AirPods 5 put ANC in both models, five hours in one
Noise cancellation reaches the entry AirPods and Live Translation follows it there, while the stem volume swipe and 22-hour case stay on the other model.
The foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it ships October 23
Apple's foldable keeps Touch ID, MagSafe, and the A20 Pro, drops the Ultra name for Duo, and doesn't reach stores until October 23, a month after the rumors.
The iPhone 18 Pro's island shrinks and adds a third task
Bloomberg says the Pro island loses width and gains a third Live Activity slot, hours before the keynote and four years after the cutout debuted at two.