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Pro-tier models expected in the September 2026 launch, rumored to cost $100–$300 more and to introduce a smaller Dynamic Island.
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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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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 iPhone Duo goes on pre-order October 16 and reaches buyers October 23, with a front camera on each of its two screens. Apps that open the front camera or assume a single screen have about three weeks to be tested against a device Apple has so far described mostly by its cameras.
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Apple updated Final Cut Camera so iPhone 18 Pro owners can set the variable aperture on the phone or from a nearby iPad or Mac. The remote control works through Final Cut Pro, one of the apps in Apple's $12.99-a-month Creator Studio.
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Apple took 33% of China's phone sales in the iPhone 18 Pro's launch week, Counterpoint Research says, with the standard iPhone 18 held back. Counterpoint counts that delay as one of three reasons, so the week cannot show how far the stagger alone moved buyers up to the Pro.
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Halide 3.2 lets iPhone 18 Pro owners pick any f-stop from f/1.48 to f/4.0 and set ISO by hand, past the limits of Apple's Camera app. Manual ISO is the stronger reason to pay, since The Verge doubts shooters will notice its finest f-stop steps.
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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 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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Matt Birchler's iPhone 18 Pro transcription test peaked at 447.9 words per second, then held just over 320 from the seventh run on. Only cooling from outside the phone lifted the sustained rate, so long on-device inference jobs should be sized to the lower number.
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Apple's own code describes an A20 Pro iPad mini that Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects to launch by the end of October. Anyone about to buy the current A17 Pro model should wait those few weeks, unless the purchase has a deadline that lands first.
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People inside Apple who have used the rumored iPhone Ultra reportedly liked the pocket fit, the hinge and the layouts. The reported spec list explains what is missing from that praise.
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Two weeks' notice, four years running, puts the invitation on August 26 and phones on shelves September 18. The alternative branch costs everyone else a week.
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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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Apple says the ongoing memory shortage is why every iPhone now costs $100 more, and MacBooks and iPads were repriced on the same grounds earlier. For fleet buyers, the component cycle has reached the price list.
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The iPhone 18 Pro can apply the Cinematic look to video that was shot plain, which takes a choice off the shot list, while the aperture Apple sold on stage mostly picks itself unless you go into Pro mode.
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PCMag ties the increases to memory and component costs, and GF Securities' Jeff Pu expects the $1,999 foldable Duo to carry the cycle even though nobody can order one for another five weeks.
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Apple added $100 to the price of every iPhone it carried into the new lineup, and the storage configurations that corporate fleets actually order went up by several times that.
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and its first foldable sit five weeks apart. Anyone buying handsets in quantity now has two ordering windows to choose between, and the larger phone is already the constrained one.
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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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