Apple says iPhone 18 Pro Max phones that lost service on AT&T must be replaced because software cannot reactivate them. Its iOS 27.0.1 release and a new AT&T carrier settings file are meant only to keep working phones from failing.
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Apple lets iOS 27 users turn off its Gemini-built Siri AI chatbot in four steps, an option Fast Company says rival chatbot makers do not offer. Anyone who uses it to drop the chatbot also loses hands-free requests such as switching on the bedroom lights.
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CISA added Apple's CoreGraphics out-of-bounds write, CVE-2026-86950, to its KEV catalog with an October 2 deadline for federal agencies. Apple's iOS advisory is dated September 28, so agencies have four days to move iPhones, iPads and Macs onto patched builds.
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Apple's iOS 27.0.1 stops the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max restarting when Face ID fails, two weeks after iOS 27 shipped. The notes do not mention the setup error or the Require Attention trouble owners also reported, so those owners will only find out by installing it.
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Expo opened a three-to-four-week SDK 58 beta that moves apps onto iOS 27's required scene-based lifecycle and React Native 0.88 RC. Teams have that long to find launch and layout breakage in their own configurations before the release goes stable.
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Google sent a malformed payload to its Firebase Analytics SDK that crashed thousands of iPhone apps at launch. By Google's own timeline, the worst case ran past six hours, long enough that the SDK belongs in incident plans as an outside service.
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Apple released watchOS 27.0.1 to six older Apple Watch models on the day it shipped iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS updates. MacRumors says the watch build lists no security fixes, so iPhones and Macs should set the order of any combined pass.
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Judge Jeffrey White certified a class of every US card issuer that paid Apple its Apple Pay fees of 0.15% on credit and half a cent on debit. Those fees are still charged on every tap while the case runs, so certification gives issuers more leverage in court well before it lowers what they pay.
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Apple released the SDK for the $1,999 iPhone Duo's 7.6-inch inner display only after announcing the phone, a dev.to analysis says. Until apps adopt it they run in a phone-sized window, and even adapted 16:9 video fills about 80% of the panel.
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iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 close 29 flaws with no known attacks. Publication is the trigger event, and 21 of the 29 sit in WebKit.
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SlowMist says its evidence for the iPhone Safari attack on crypto wallet keys covers iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 and that it has confirmed no theft victim. The firm calls this week's iOS 13 to 26.5 warnings preliminary and still tells iPhone users to install security updates.
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Blockchain security firm SlowMist says an active exploit chain walks from a Safari page to kernel access and the iOS Keychain on everything from iOS 13 to 26.5, while Apple's patches, by the same account, reach 26.3.
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Ternus told his first keynote as chief executive that the ideal AI device already exists. The hub Apple insiders expected instead has been waiting on an assistant Apple leases from Google and cannot yet sell in the EU.
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Korean forum posts and Reddit accounts describe iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max units restarting during Apple Pay and Face ID, and a service centre has approved an exchange while an Apple Store granted a refund.
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Bloomberg reports that Apple's square smart display is being tested in employees' homes and could be announced as soon as next month. Its front-facing camera personalizes the screen for whoever is looking at it.
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One developer's four clean runs against livekit-client 2.22.3 all read the track dimensions after the preview appeared. Reading there lands outside the roughly 100 ms window in which a portrait iPhone claims 1920 by 1080.
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A dev.to workflow post argues that the first PR persisting a voice session should not merge until someone has proved the transcript file is excluded from iCloud or Google backup and that a restore cannot recreate it.
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IRIS C2 found a kernel extension named EndpointSecuritySE in an iOS build Apple released to developers on September 16, along with the entitlement and research-mode checks that decide which clients may read its events.
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Craig Federighi told MKBHD the iPhone Duo can often fill the space an iPad mini filled for its owner. The only usage he cited was his own over the past few months.
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Salesforce's Sneha Singla describes one personalization architecture behind iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter, in which developers register the native components and the zones they may fill, and marketers choose the rest.
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