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• Supplemental image data used in Face ID authentication on iPhone 18 Pro

  22-09-2026 15:10 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple has added an additional layer of authentication to Face ID on iPhone 18 Pro using image data and a secure exclave, potentially speeding up the process.
  Apple hid a portion of the Face ID system under the display on iPhone 18 Pro
  Face ID is Apple's most secure biometric authentication system for iPhone and is only matched in terms of security by Optic ID on Apple Vision Pro. The system uses infrared dot projection, attention awareness, depth mapping, and an encrypted mathematical representa
  
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• Thousands of banks can now sue over Apple Pay fees in one antitrust case

  25-09-2026 20:15 via appleinsider.com
  
  Thousands of U.S. banks and credit unions can pursue their Apple Pay fee claims together after a federal judge certified their antitrust lawsuit as a class action.Using Apple Pay at a payment terminal
  The financial institutions accuse Apple of blocking competing tap-to-pay wallets on iPhone while charging card issuers fees for transactions. They argue Apple could impose those fees because rival wallets couldn't compete for contactless payments on the iPhone.Judge Jeffrey White certified the clas
  
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• Apple Intelligence is coming to the the next entry-level iPad

  25-09-2026 19:56 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's next low-cost iPad is shaping up to get a faster chip and the hardware needed to run Apple Intelligence.
  Apple's current iPad 11
  The 12th-generation iPad is expected to bring Apple Intelligence and its Siri features to Apple's entry-level tablet. It could also gain faster cellular and wireless connectivity.This appears to be the same iPad that was rumored to release in early 2026.
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• Apple's next HomePod mini won't get a redesign, but will get some new colors

  25-09-2026 17:59 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's diminutive speaker is returning for a second generation, sporting the same spherical design in a few new colors.
  An approximation of Apple's new pink and green HomePod mini speakers
  The upcoming HomePod mini lineup swaps the current-gen yellow and orange for a new powder pink and forest green. Blue, black, and white will be making a return, though.The information originates from Apple's code, spotted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. It showcases the product in the aforementioned co
  
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• iPad mini finally getting FaceTime camera move, leak suggests

  25-09-2026 17:54 via appleinsider.com
  
  Leaked artwork of the next iPad mini shows its front camera on the long edge, a useful change for video calls that would bring the small tablet in line with other iPads.iPad mini
  The images reportedly come from Apple's code and show only the front of the device. They offer a glimpse of its layout, but leave the back and sides unseen.The current iPad mini's Center Stage camera sits on its short edge, so the lens ends up off to one side during landscape calls. Center Stage can keep you in frame, b
  
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• New Apple TV 4K leak confirms a very familiar form factor

  25-09-2026 17:49 via appleinsider.com
  
  An image of the new Apple TV 4K hardware appears to have leaked, showing that there's nothing new on the outside. But big changes are rumored for the inside.
  The new Apple TV 4K is closer than ever
  The current Apple TV 4K was released in October 2022, and a new model has been rumored to be in the cards for some time. The model on store shelves today features an aging A15 Bionic chip and just 4GB of RAM.Now, the image file reported by MacRumors has revealed the new Apple TV 4K's upgrades will all
  
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• Elton John announced as first Apple Music Hall gig

  25-09-2026 17:36 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple Music has announced which eight artists will be performing first at the new Apple Music Hall in London, beginning with Elton John on September 28, 2026.
  Apple Music Hall has announced its first program - image credit: Apple.
  Days after unveiling its spectacular new live concert venue in London, Apple Music has begun programming the venue. It's announced eight artists playing from September to the start of December, with ticketing starting shortly, assuming you can navigate the website.Appl
  
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• Apple Watch Ultra 4 drops to $779 during weekend sale

  25-09-2026 17:31 via appleinsider.com
  
  The lowest Apple Watch Ultra 4 price can be found at Amazon this weekend thanks to double-digit savings.
  Many new Apple Watch Ultra 4 styles are on sale this weekend.
  Pick up the robust Apple Watch Ultra 4 today and save $20 on select styles.Save on the Apple Watch Ultra 4
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• Interview: Why Ron Johnson says Apple had no choice but to gamble millions on retail

  25-09-2026 15:33 via appleinsider.com
  
  Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson were mocked by business and finance press over the Apple Store, and in an interview with AppleInsider, Johnson reveals that if they hadn't opened them, Apple itself would not have survived.
  Ron Johnson (left) and Steve Jobs, circa 2001 - image and background shot of Apple Fifth Avenue credit: Apple.
  You've been in an Apple Store, or at least if you haven't, the odds are that there is one near you. These stores are everywhere, they are an unquestioned and unparalleled s
  
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• Ron Johnson & buying iPhones in Apple Stores on the AppleInsider Podcast

  25-09-2026 15:11 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's former head of Apple retail, Ron Johnson, has a book "Shop Different" and joins William on the latest AppleInsider Podcast for a guest interview. Also, your hosts discuss new Macs, perceived Apple failures, and more.
  Ron Johnson with the interior of Apple's iconic Fifth Avenue store - images credit: Apple.
  Ron Johnson was brought in to Apple by Steve Jobs to create the Apple Stores in what is now seen as a brilliant move, but back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, was believed to be App
  
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• Higher prices are just making iPhones more desirable in India

  25-09-2026 13:49 via appleinsider.com
  
  Far from hurting sales, raising iPhone prices has brought Apple growing market share in India, at least for now, and at least while it also has installment plans.
  Deirdre O'Brien (left) and Tim Cook open Apple BKC, the first Apple Store in India, back in 2023 (Source: Apple)
  Analysts have predictably yet plausibly argued that higher iPhone prices and no base iPhone 18 would hit Apple's bottom line. That may well be true in most places, but a new CNBC report says it definitely is not in India.Rep
  
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• How to leave iCloud without losing your data

  25-09-2026 13:26 via appleinsider.com
  Skip one hidden step when you cut back or cancel iCloud and you could lose years of photos and messages before your account fully disconnects. Here's how to safely export iCloud data.Apple apps
  Before changing anything, you need to know what each iCloud service holds and what happens when synchronization stops. Settings presents iCloud as a single service, but several separate systems work behind that name.Some services synchronize live libraries or store files. Others back up devices or power A
  
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• Apple Watch Ultra 4 review: An end-to-end health ecosystem

  25-09-2026 13:24 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's new Health Sensing System for Apple Watch Ultra 4 means more accurate and more frequent health metric tracking. It feels like the peak offering of a device before a necessary complete redesign.
  Apple Watch Ultra 4 review: Better health features & AI
  Nearly every improvement made to Apple Watch Ultra 4 relates to health, fitness, and the ability to track those metrics. Even the longer battery life was pitched as a way to track metrics over a longer period of time.Tim Cook may have ste
  
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• How to watch 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' for free in 2026

  25-09-2026 05:03 via appleinsider.com
  Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and the rest of the gang and tune in to watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" for free for everybody on Apple TV. Here's how, and when.
  Watch 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' on Apple TV
  For many of us, Charlie Brown and the "Peanuts" gang mark some of our very first movie memories. That's why Apple TV is ensuring everyone can revisit those warm and fuzzy childhood feelings, regardless of whether they have an active Apple TV subscription."It
  
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• Snoopy & Fraggles getting new holiday specials on Apple TV

  24-09-2026 18:19 via appleinsider.com
  
  Snoopy and the Fraggles are heading back to Apple TV for a pair of new holiday adventures this winter.
  "Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy" premieres on Apple TV on Friday, November 13
  Apple TV is expanding its holiday lineup with new specials starring Snoopy and the Fraggles. Both join a collection of returning seasonal favorites available to stream throughout the holidays.
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• Amazon, B&H battle for the best price with $1,849 M5 MacBook Pro deal

  24-09-2026 17:24 via appleinsider.com
  
  A month-end price war is in effect at Amazon and B&H, resulting in Apple's M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch dropping to $1,849. Plus save up to $600 on M5 Pro and M5 Max models.
  Apple's M5 MacBook Pro is $150 off in price war - Image credit: Apple
  B&H and Amazon are competing for your business today, with a $150 discount on Apple's 10-core M5 14-inch MacBook Pro with 16GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage. On sale now for $1,849 in Space Black, B&H states limited supply is available at the
  
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• Square brings Apple Business into its dashboard

  24-09-2026 16:47 via appleinsider.com
  
  Square sellers are now able to link accounts to Apple Business and manage information shown across Apple services from the Square Dashboard.
  Square adds Apple Business integration
  The integration, announced Thursday, means businesses using Square no longer need to update basic information, such as hours, address, and phone number, separately through Apple Business. Changes made through Square can instead be synced across Apple Maps, Wallet, Siri AI, and other Apple Apps.Once connected, sellers c
  
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• Hugh Laurie turns crime boss for new Apple TV drama 'The Wanted Man'

  24-09-2026 16:11 via appleinsider.com
  
  A new limited-series crime drama executive-produced and starringHugh Laurie is set to ring in the new year on Apple TV.
  Hugh Laurie in "The Wanted Man"
  The eight-episode series follows Felix Carmichael, a crime boss betrayed by someone inside his own firm. Sent to the notorious Staplehurst prison, he'll need to resort to brutality if he hopes to make it out.This isn't Laurie's first time on Apple TV, either. The "House M.D." veteran previously joined Apple TV drama "Tehran" during its third seas
  
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• Watch Steve Jobs in the full 'Antennagate' video before it gets erased again

  24-09-2026 16:10 via appleinsider.com
  
  Unless you were in the room when Steve Jobs gave his 2010 "you're holding it wrong" speech, you've only seen half of it. Now the full version is online and it's a great watch.
  To fix signal strength dropping if you held the iPhone 4 a certain way, Apple offered customers a free bumper case - image credit: Apple.
  This is a famous moment in Apple history and even if you don't remember when the iPhone 4 had signal problems, this is still a video to watch that you've never been able to see before. I
  
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• Apple & Qualcomm renew global patent licensing agreement

  24-09-2026 16:08 via appleinsider.com
  
  Providing no new details, Qualcomm has issued a statement confirming that it and Apple have renewed the existing patent licensing agreement first signed in 2019, with an effective date of April 1, 2027.
  iPhone 18 Pro Max
  In one introductory sentence, and one quote, Qualcomm dropped the news of the renewal on the world. The first sentence states the agreement's effective date."We are pleased to extend the Apple license agreement," said John Han, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qua
  
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• How to remove Apple Intelligence models & reclaim storage in macOS 27

  24-09-2026 15:31 via appleinsider.com
  Turning off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27 won't remove its downloaded models, but properly deleting the main model folder can free valuable internal SSD space. Here's how to do it.macOS 27 introduces Siri AI
  We're not fans of the fact that macOS can keep Apple Intelligence models on disk even after Siri AI is turned off. Apple doesn't provide a button for removing those downloaded files, so reclaiming the space requires going into Recovery and deleting the model folder directly.This isn't an Ap
  
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• AT&T calls failing for a small number of iPhone 18 Pro users

  24-09-2026 13:46 via appleinsider.com
  
  It's not affecting many people at all, but if your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max is not working on AT&T, this is what you need to do.
  AT&T has reportedly acknowledged problems with the eSIMs for the iPhone 18 Pro - image credit: AT&T.
  While all of the bugs affecting the new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are only happening for a very small group of users, they are happening. Alongside the already reported Face ID restart bug, due to be fixed shortly, AppleInsider has been t
  
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• iPhone 18 Pro Face ID rebooting bug to be fixed in iOS update

  24-09-2026 13:16 via appleinsider.com
  
  Unsurprisingly, Apple is working on an iOS 27 update that will fix an issue affecting some iPhone 18 Pro users where Face ID is failing and forcing a restart.
  A Face ID bug is causing restarts for a small number of iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max users.
  Whenever millions of devices are released alongside a new OS, there are problems. In the case of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, some users reported restarts caused by kernel panics, so unexpected and unforced restarts.One Reddit use
  
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• Apple's spatial computing strategy was on full display at Meta Connect

  24-09-2026 06:38 via appleinsider.com
  
  Meta VR Glasses are a new spatial computing device that weighs a sixth of the Apple Vision Pro with a third of the cost, half of the specs, and none of the immersion.
  Meta's new glasses have Alan Dye all over them. Image source: Meta
  Take the front glass from the Apple Vision Pro, slap it on some thick glasses arms, remove the light seal, compute, and surrounding hardware, and you'll end up with Meta VR Glasses. These are less glasses than goggles, and initial demos show some promise in deliveri
  
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• How to change the background in Messages for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

  24-09-2026 05:06 via appleinsider.com
  Bring more life and personalization to your group chats, by adding backgrounds to your conversations in Messages in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Here's how to change yours for the better.
  You can change the backgrounds of conversations in Messages for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
  Messages is an essential app for iPhone users, with it used to communicate with your closest relations. However, people may be getting a bit bored of seeing the usual grey and blue (and sometimes green) speech bubbles floating up a pl
  
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• ChatGPT as an extension in Siri dramatically underperformed, says OpenAI

  24-09-2026 04:54 via appleinsider.com
  
  It was already known that the ChatGPT deal went so poorly with Apple that OpenAI considered a lawsuit, but these complaints have finally been put to paper in a SpaceXAI lawsuit filing.
  The Siri extension for ChatGPT didn't perform as expected
  Apple and OpenAI were dragged into an antitrust lawsuit thanks to baseless accusations from Elon Musk. The lawsuit is ongoing in spite of Apple being removed from the case.OpenAI didn't get to see what settlement Apple and SpaceXAI reached, but it has share
  
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• uGreen Revodok Maxidok 17-in-1 review: Best in class price to features balance

  24-09-2026 02:10 via appleinsider.com
  
  The Thunderbolt 5 docking station market is very crowded, but at a street price of about $350, the uGreen Revodok Maxidok 17-in-1 stands out, with an excellent price to features balance.
  uGreen Revodok Maxidok 17-in-1
  A laptop is a compromise between power and portability. The trade-off is usually ports, with thin notebooks like the MacBook Pro offering only a handful of connections.A Thunderbolt dock solves that by turning one port into many. The Revodok Maxidok pushes that idea about as far as
  
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• New Apple Watch models could restart randomly, & watchOS 27.0.1 fixes that bug

  23-09-2026 22:34 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's watchOS 27.0.1 update has arrived with a fix that prevents Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Apple Watch Series 12 models from randomly restarting.
  New Apple Watch models could encounter restarts during use
  On Wednesday, just over a week after watchOS 27.0 reached the general public, Apple deployed the watchOS 27.0.1 update. The software addresses a bug that caused the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 to restart unexpectedly.Those who encountered the now-resolved issue said their Appl
  
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• Siri AI upgrade is certain for a future HomePod mini update

  23-09-2026 20:30 via appleinsider.com
  
  The update to Siri AI will eventually reach the HomePod line. While that is a certainty, it may not be available on the models that are currently in homes.
  HomePod mini is expected to get an update soon. That should add in Siri AI support.The HomePod and HomePod mini were left out of the Siri AI party at WWDC, and the updated digital assistant hasn't yet become available on the smart speaker. However, it is still something widely expected to be on the way.A leaker known as "pdfu" posted to X abo
  
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• Grab Apple's new M6 Mac mini for $879.99 during month-end sale

  23-09-2026 18:43 via appleinsider.com
  
  Apple's brand-new M6 Mac mini is discounted at Amazon today, with month-end deals on several models.
  Save on Apple's brand-new Mac mini desktop that just launched.
  You can pick up the standard M6 Mac mini today at Amazon for $879.99, reflecting a $20 markdown off MSRP. This is also the lowest 2026 Mac mini price available, according to our Price Guide.Buy M6/16GB/256GB for $879.99
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