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Apple's annual iPhone operating system update, released alongside iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS 27, adding an agentic Siri and other system features.
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Apple has priced the iPhone 18 Pro from £1,199, £100 above last year's models, a rise the Guardian blames on memory costs. Its faster chip and longer battery are real gains, but they make a thin case for retiring year-old company phones early.
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Amazon cut AirPods Pro 3 to $179 two days before Prime Big Deal Days, $30 above Apple's $149 AirPods 5 with the wireless charging case. While the sale lasts, fit matters more than price in choosing between Apple's tiers.
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AT&T texted iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 immediately, warning that some phones may be unable to complete calls, including to 911. Teams managing those phones can install it for the fixes Apple documented while keeping the cellular fault logged as unresolved.
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AT&T is texting affected iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 because some phones may be unable to complete calls, texts or data, including to 911. Teams issuing the phones should install it before moving any eSIM, the setup step tied to some failures.
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Apple's Invites update lets guests without Apple devices add full-resolution photos to event albums hosted on a $0.99-a-month iCloud+ plan. Hosting stays behind the paywall, while most of what is new helps guests get in and add their photos.
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Some iPhone 18 Pro owners report speaker pops that iOS 27.0.1 did not fix, per early feedback gathered by MacRumors. The reports are few and the cause is unknown, so a quick test on arrival matters more than delaying a purchase.
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Apple's TestFlight 4.4.0 adds landscape on every iPhone and resizing in iPhone Mirroring on the Mac, weeks before the $1,999 iPhone Duo ships October 23. Teams still shipping portrait-only screens can use it as a working example of the layout work Apple has done on its own apps for the foldable.
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Apple's iOS 27 rebuilds Siri, the iPhone's assistant for nearly 15 years, as an LLM agent that searches work email and drafts messages to colleagues. Fleet managers now need a rule for how far it may act on work mail and calendars before staff install the update.
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The foldable will take the attention on Wednesday, but for teams that maintain a device matrix the consequential item is duller, a launch calendar that reportedly breaks into an autumn half and a spring half.
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The date is firm and the compatibility floor has not moved, so the September work is retiring Apple Watches and Intel Macs rather than testing iPhones, while Siri AI ships in beta behind a waiting list with no launch date.
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Tom's Guide reports that Apple worked directly with three large apps to fit them to the iPhone Duo's two displays, while the interview names no submission cutoff and no developer program for everyone else shipping on iOS.
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Wired's rundown of iOS 27 lists five new Siri capabilities and one hardware requirement covering all of them. The personal index is built on the handset, so the cutoff sits in the hardware and a server update leaves an older phone where it is.
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The iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image mode binds a photo to the sensor that captured it, then has Apple's cloud develop and sign the finished file. Apple's published account protects the original capture and stops at the edit.
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Apple's new Siri needs a waitlist slot, an iPhone 15 Pro or newer and a country outside the EU, so a team supporting iOS 27 next week is supporting four populations on the same build number.
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Apple's firmware holds the new Pro Max under the 20 Wh single-cell threshold until a buyer activates it, and a Prepare to Ship option in Settings puts the phone back under the limit before a repair, return or trade-in.
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Apple's $250 million settlement over the delayed Siri features now has a live claims site paying an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone, and Apple denies the allegations it settled to avoid the cost of a trial.
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9to5Mac ran iOS 27's Clean Up against Photoshop 27.10.0 on the same six photos, and Apple's one-tap tool produced the better result in two of the three object removals. Photoshop won the hard one, and it is also where the reviewer went to fix Apple's miss.
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Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 returns one of three risk levels to an app when a customer makes a payment or changes account security settings, and the scoring runs on the device only after the customer switches it on.
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Apple's iPhone Handoff moves calls and messages between two iPhones sharing one number. Availability, price and cancellation all run through the carrier, and on T-Mobile that is $5 a month per number.
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The iPhone Duo goes on sale on October 23 running iOS 27.1, a build Apple is keeping to that one phone while every other iPhone moves to 27.2 in October. The two branches rejoin at 27.2.x or 27.3.
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