The United States Department of Justice has successfully secured a temporary pause on a legal order that would have forced it to gather documents from 14 federal agencies in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The temporary pause gives the government adequate time to formally appeal the initial discovery ruling, avoiding an immediate scramble to […]

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is moving its manufacturing schedule forward by a full year. The supplier plans to start trial production for its next-generation 1.4-nanometer chips by April 2027 at its Taichung facility. By accelerating the timeline, the company expects to reach mass production in the second half of 2027 rather than waiting until […]

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New Mexico representatives are asking Apple and Google to block a potential state name change on mapping platforms. The move comes after the US President suggested renaming the state to New America in a series of social media posts. The lawmakers want to preemptively ensure that the tech companies ignore any official push to alter […]

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Apple’s Mac Edge Light feature could expand to the iPhone, according to an unconfirmed code finding shared by researcher pdfu on X. The post points to iOS 27 release-candidate code and a device subtype that appears to reference iPhone Duo. This is not an Apple announcement, and it does not prove that Edge Light will […]

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Apple says Live Rewind on Apple Watch cannot be used secretly because activation requires a deliberate double press of the Digital Crown, plays a chime, and shows a full-screen animation with a microphone indicator. The chime plays even when the watch is muted or headphones are connected. After activation, Live Rewind shows only a text […]

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Apple says Siri Recap can listen for conversations on Apple Watch, process the audio, and create a short high-level summary without keeping an audio recording for replay. The feature is opt-in, and users can control it by time, location, or a manual switch. Apple’s Audio Intelligence support document says raw audio is not recorded or […]

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Apple’s Apple Watch Ultra 4 technical specifications list precision dual-frequency GPS with GPS, Galileo, QZSS, and BeiDou, but GLONASS is missing. The older Apple Watch Ultra specification page lists GLONASS alongside those systems. That makes the omission a real change in Apple’s published wording, although Apple does not explain whether it reflects hardware, software, regional […]

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T-Mobile says iPhone Handoff will cost $5 per month, giving compatible customers a way to use one T-Mobile number across two iPhones. The feature arrives with iOS 27 and is aimed at people who regularly switch between a primary and secondary phone. Apple’s iPhone Handoff support guide says two phones need iOS 27 or later, […]

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Apple recently launched its first foldable phone, and the high price is raising eyebrows. At $1,999, the new iPhone Duo carries a price tag that easily beats out a brand-new MacBook Air. Buyers are naturally asking how a phone that fits in a pocket can cost twice as much as a laptop. The answer comes […]

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If your iPhone is one of the 15 models on Apple’s Apple Intelligence device list, the cheapest way in costs nothing: iOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14. If it is not, the least expensive route Apple sells is the $699 iPhone 17e, and the same model was listed at $599 before September 9. […]

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Apple has published no sound leakage figure for AirPods 5, in decibels or in any other form, so nobody can tell you exactly how much of your music the person next to you hears. What Apple has published is the shape of the answer: these are open-ear earbuds with no ear tips, and Apple’s own […]

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Apple’s headphone range is down to three names and four prices, and the choice comes apart cleanly by what you do rather than what you spend. AirPods 5 at $129 or $149 are the open-ear pick for anyone who wants to hear the room, AirPods Pro 3 at $249 are the only model with a […]

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Apple’s press release says iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max “will be available in 20 other countries and regions beginning Friday, September 25”. It has not named a single one of them, and it has not said when those markets can pre-order. That is the whole of the second-wave story as Apple has […]

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Apple’s Australian, Canadian and Japanese stores each publish a price for iPhone 18 Pro and the exact minute pre-orders open, and not one of the three prints the 18 September on-sale date. That date exists only in Apple’s press release. The three pages differ in other ways that matter at checkout, most of all in […]

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Apple India’s Ways to Buy page advertises instant cashback of up to ₹15,000 on eligible cards. That is a store-wide ceiling across everything Apple India sells, and the figure recorded for the iPhone 18 Pro launch offer specifically is up to ₹7,000. The distinction is worth getting right before Saturday, because the two numbers sit […]

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Apple has published no guidance on putting a screen protector on either iPhone Duo display, and it sells none. What it has published is exactly what the folding inner panel is built from, and that is the part of the answer worth having before October 23. The two displays are not the same material problem. […]

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Apple now sells three Apple Watches, and for most sports the answer is the middle one. The Apple Watch Series 12 at $399 covers running, swimming and everyday health tracking on Apple’s own numbers, the Ultra 4 at $799 earns its price only if your day runs past 10 hours of workout tracking or your […]

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Apple sells seven iPhones this week, from the $699 iPhone 17e to the $1,999 iPhone Duo, and only two of them carry a dedicated telephoto lens. That makes the decision simpler than the size of the lineup suggests: the iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199 is the cheapest iPhone Apple sells with a real zoom lens, […]

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Apple Watch Series 12 starts at $399, which is what Series 7 cost in 2021 and what every Series watch in between has cost at launch. Apple Watch Ultra 4 starts at $799, the same as the first Ultra in 2022, and Apple Watch SE 3 is $249, the same as the SE it replaced. […]

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