All iPhones are slower than you'd expect when they are new or when you've updated iOS, and Indexing is generally the culprit. Here's exactly what's happening and what you can do about it.
While indexing is continuing, you'll see "Optimising Search and Siri" in Settings.
Not to drag this out, the short answer is that all you absolutely have to do to speed up your iPhone is wait. You can help it along a bit, but the iPhone is indexing all of the data you've got on it and when that's done, it won't
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Why iOS 27 slows down even the new iPhone 18 Pro at first
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Apple& American Academy of Pediatrics team up for new Screen Time guide
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Parents are getting guidance on how to establish healthy digital habits for their children and their iPhones and iPads, thanks to a partnership between Apple and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Parents can use the AAP-Apple guide to set boundaries for child computer use - Image Credit: Apple
Back during the WWDC keynote in June, Apple said it will release expanded parental controls in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), covering things from content blocking to encourag
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Apple Creator Studio lets you change iPhone 18 Pro video focus after filming
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Apple Creator Studio's latest updates add selection tools to Pixelmator Pro for iPad, new editing options for iPhone 18 Pro video, and changes across its productivity apps.
Apple Creator Studio update adds video, photo, iWork tools
It's time to update Apple Creator Studio. The latest release touches nearly every app in the collection, from video and image editing to presentations and spreadsheets.Pixelmator Pro for iPad now has Select and Mask controls for refining selections around difficult ed
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Variable aperture iPhone 18 Pro now supported by Final Cut Camera
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The latest update to Final Cut Camera for iOS can take advantage of the iPhone 18 Pro variable aperture system, giving video professionals more control over the shot.
Final Cut Camera in the iOS App Store
Final Cut Camera is a companion app for Final Cut Pro for iPad, enabling users to capture live multi-camera projects with a collection of iPhones, as well as for more conventional filming purposes. In an update rolling out on Tuesday, the app is being upgraded with new features.The big and time
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Save up to $600 on these 2TB MacBook Pros heading into October
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Amazon is looking to clear out current M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro inventory ahead of Q4, with deals knocking up to $600 off.
Save up to $600 on MacBook Pros at Amazon - Image credit: Apple
Kicking off the sale is a $500 markdown on the 14-inch M5 Pro spec with an 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU. This model, which is discounted to $2,699 in your choice of Space Black or Silver, also has 24GB of memory and a spacious 2TB SSD.Buy M5 Pro 2TB MacBook Pro for $2,699
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More releases, more often will be the Apple way under CEO Ternus
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New CEO John Ternus plans for Apple to speed up product development, with the aim to bring out more products throughout the year instead of a few well-worn events.
Apple CEO John Ternus
Barely a month in the seat, Apple CEO John Ternus is preparing to make big changes to the way the company works. Leaning on his engineering background, he wants Apple to be the same way, working to develop new products at a more rapid rate.As part of this, Bloomberg reports that Ternus is considering a shake-up t
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Small layoffs and budget cuts are hitting Apple, with more expected
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New Apple CEO John Ternus is reportedly planning layoffs ranging from small-scale ones in large teams, but also cancelling projects.
John Ternus at the "Ted Lasso" launch - image credit: Reuters
Apple has recently laid off some staff from Apple Vision Pro development, but a new report says that employees across the company are expecting more serious numbers of redundancies to come. According to Bloomberg, it's a result of new CEO Ternus aiming to cut costs and focus on developing fewer products.
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Hong Kong police want Apple's help in stopping $3.8M iPhone 18 Pro fraud
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Since the iPhone 18 Pro went on sale, police in Hong Kong have dealt with over 1,500 cases of buyers using suspicious credit cards. They think Apple can stop it.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max.
Hong Kong criminals have been involved in international theft before, and the Apple's progress in China at least initially faced bribery and fraud. Now according to local news site The Standard, fraudsters are targeting the iPhone 18 Pro by buying it in bulk using fake credit cards.They're doing it to the tune
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Making millions of iPhone Duos is proving harder than Apple hoped
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Only Apple knows what it expected for yields, but manufacturers are claiming that the iPhone Duo is difficult to manufacture at scale, with its folding screen and hinge complicating production.
iPhone Duo production struggles as assembly yields suffer
Assembly yields for the iPhone Duo remain low, while component delays have shortened the time available to refine production. Apple now faces a familiar foldable phone problem: producing millions of units that reliably work.Foxconn's iPhone Duo ass
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Light Touch faithfully emulates the iPod touch 2G on your Mac
via appleinsider.comGet nostalgic and take a stroll down the iOS memory lane by emulating the iPod touch 2G on your Mac, all thanks to Light Touch. Here's how to do it.
Light Touch for macOS
While learning and experiencing earlier versions of Apple's operating systems is best done using old hardware that runs it, sometimes that's hard to do. Unless you're an avid collector and preserver of Apple's hardware, you may not have fully functional versions of what you want to look at on hand.In the case of the iPod touch,
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Safety concerns forced ICEblock removal, Apple tells lawmaker
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Apple has doubled down on its claims that removing ICEblock and similar apps from the App Store was necessary for safety, though chiefly because it was never going to admit to bowing to government pressure.
ICEBlock in the App Store, pre-removal
In July 2025, the Department of Justice publicly threatened the developer of ICEblock, an app that let users say when Immigration and Enforcement Officers were spotted in an area. The app was intended to help people avoid trouble spots, such as the riots
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M5 Max Mac Studio review: Far better choice than Ultra for most desks
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There are some interesting choices to make, if you're looking at buying a 2026 Mac Studio. There is one clear choice for Mac-centric workflows, and one for a AI powerhouse.
Mac Studio review: On the desk
Despite the drama on the Internet about the Mac Studio, Apple has always had $5000+ computers to sell you. The 2026 Mac Studio lineup is not an exception, but rather an exemplar.There was the Mac IIfx, way back in the day, and much later the original Mac Pro, which after starting at $2499 got ex
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Apple's haptic feedback $5.7B trial loss likely to get pared way back
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Lawyers for the winning side, Taction Technology, say that they expect Apple to negotiate the loss down and so also cut back the law firm's profits. How terrible for them.
Inside a haptic engine - image credit: Taptic Technology.
Apple was found guilty of infringing the patents of Taction Technology in its Taptic Engine, as used in the Apple Watch and many more devices, with a jury awarding damages of over $5.7 billion. In case anyone thought the lawyers did this one pro bono, legal firm Burford
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How to escape Photoshop's clutches by installing PhotoGimp
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If you don't want keep paying Adobe, switch to Gimp. Here's how to make Gimp have a user interface very similar to Photoshop with PhotoGimp.
Make Gimp more like Photoshop with PhotoGimp
The creative industry is a heavy user of Adobe's Creative Cloud, with it a staple in production houses and studios around the world. Photoshop is one of the many tools within that package, and is widely used within design and photography fields.However, while the world runs on Photoshop, not everyone wants to kee
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Huion Kamvas Pad 12 Review: A portable but problematic artist's tool
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The Huion Kamvas Pad 12 is a portable drawing tablet for artists on the move. While it does compete with the iPad, it offers a lot if you're prepared to suffer through Android to Apple data transport foibles
Huion Kamvas Pad 12 Review: Laid flat
Huion's quality and versatility have improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and it is back again with the Kamvas Pad 12. It's a new portable pen display pad for artists who like to sketch and create on the go.Huion provided me with the new
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First urgent bug fixes arrive for macOS 27, iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and more
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The first granular updates to Apple's milestone operating system releases have arrived, with 27.0.1 updates now here for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
iPhone 18 Pro
Apple released its major yearly operating system revision on September 14, bringing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS to the 27 generation. Two weeks later, Apple's released the first small update to the public.The granular update is a minor version change, and is quite typical for Apple to release shortly after the
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First urgent bug fixes arrive for macOS 27, iOS 27, iPad OS 27 and more
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The first granular updates to Apple's milestone operating system releases have arrived, with 27.0.1 updates now here for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
iPhone 18 Pro
Apple released its major yearly operating system revision on September 14, bringing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS to the 27 generation. Two weeks later, Apple's released the first small update to the public.The granular update is a minor version change, and is quite typical for Apple to release shortly after the
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First granular 27.0.1 updates arrive for iOS, macOS
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The first granular updates to Apple's milestone operating system releases have arrived, with 27.0.1 updates now here for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
iPhone 18 Pro
Apple released its major yearly operating system revision on September 14, bringing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS to the 27 generation. Two weeks later, Apple's released the first small update to the public.The granular update is a minor version change, and is quite typical for Apple to release shortly after the
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Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
Meta's Muse mascot | Image credit: Meta/Alexandr Wang
If you use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp, you've probably been inundated with prompts to try out Meta's next big questionable service: Muse. And it's not like Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has a great track record regarding privacy, safety, or e
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iPhone Duo StandBy night mode is going to get some unannounced features
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The forthcoming iPhone Duo has more features than Apple has revealed, including a whole series of faces for its StandBy mode. Here's what to eventually look for.
Editing one of the new StandBy faces - image credit: pdfu
While pre-orders for iPhone Duo don't start until October 16, and the Xcode betas still don't show developers everything, one has found many new options coming to iOS 27 for this device.Developer pdfu reports that the Xcode 27.1 simulator is lacking Rushmore, an app that is for d
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Apple's M5 15-inch MacBook Air dips to $1,399 at Amazon
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Amazon continues to unveil month-end deals, with Apple's M5 15-inch MacBook Air falling to $1,399, and upgraded models up to $150 off.
Grab month-end MacBook Air deals at Amazon - Image credit: Apple
If you're looking for the lowest 15-inch MacBook Air price, Amazon's month-end $1,399 deal is worth checking out. It slashes $100 off the standard M5 spec with 16GB of unified memory and 512GB of storage.Buy 15" MacBook Air 512GB for $1,399
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Apple smart home leaks & Anker Eufy Edge 5.0 on Smart Home Insider
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On this week's episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, we go through a slew of new Apple smart home leaks before covering the news from Anker's security event.
Smart Home Insider Podcast
After digging through more of Apple's code, Aaron Perris was able to uncover several new references to unreleased smart home devices. This includes Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini, and possibly a full-size HomePod.The leak revealed the new colors of the upcoming HomePod mini 2, which include black, white, blue, pin
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Apple & Amazon UK face revived $383 million price fixing lawsuit
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A lawsuit accusing Apple and Amazon of colluding to limit sales of products to consumers in the UK is being revived, with both companies potentially facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Apple and Amazon logos
In 2018, Apple and Amazon reached an agreement that allowed regional Amazon stores to sell Apple and Beats hardware. The agreement has been legally problematic for both tech giants ever since, with one lawsuit coming back from the dead in the UK.Reuters reports the UK's Compet
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iPhone 18 Pro Max review: The best iPhone for about a month
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In any other year, I'd find a novel way to say that the iPhone 18 Pro Max is the best iPhone ever. While that's true at the time of writing, it's probably only going to be that for a vanishingly small amount of time.
iPhone 18 Pro Max review: The brand-new model in Silver
This year is the first where the iPhone Pro Max isn't the most exciting model in Apple's lineup. That honor goes to the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable device and one that won't hit store shelves until weeks after this revie
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Sunday Reboot: Big Whoop and more Apple Watch nagging
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In this week's Sunday Reboot, the Apple Watch is better for your health, but maybe the rumored screen-free wearable could be better for your peace of mind.
Apple Watch now has a Readiness score.Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get next week underway with a good first step.
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Amazon slashes $900 off Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro, lowest price ever
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The staggering $900 discount delivers the lowest price on record for the M5 Max MacBook Pro 16-inch.
Save $900 on a premium 16-inch MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple
Amazon has issued a steep price cut on Apple's high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip. This laptop in Apple's silver finish has an 18-core CPU and 32-core GPU, along with 36GB of unified memory and a spacious 2TB SSD.Save $900 on 16" M5 Max MacBook Pro
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Apple Vision Pro's development graveyard exemplifies Apple's '1,000 no's to every yes'
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Pundits continue to hold up clear signs of restraint as failures while asking Apple to behave like Meta, OpenAI, Google, or anyone else but themselves, especially when discussing Apple Vision Pro.
Apple is the only one that knows if Apple Vision Pro is a success or failure
If any of Apple's thousands of employees dare leave the company, or if one of hundreds of internal prototypes doesn't make it to production, you better believe punditry will be there to let us know. The critical analysis almos
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Apple's smart glasses predicted for 2027, upgraded Apple Vision Pro 2028
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Apple is, once again, forecast to bring out Apple Glass by the end of 2027, while it also works on a brand new headset that takes after the new Meta VR Glasses.
Apple wants thin and light smart glasses.So far, Apple's head-mounted computing efforts have consisted of the Apple Vision Pro and accessing Siri through AirPods. However, you're still going to have a long wait before being able to try the ever-rumored smart glasses Apple has been persistently working on.In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter
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Apple's US staff will get extended Thanksgiving break under Ternus too
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New Apple CEO John Ternus has told staff that most US divisions will get the whole of Thanksgiving week off in recognition of their hard work.
John Ternus has told staff that most US employees will get the whole of Thanksgiving week off - image credit: Apple.
It's oddly hard to confirm this, but some accounts say that Steve Jobs gave staff paid Thanksgiving leave at least once during his time as CEO. But what's certain is that Tim Cook did so for the very first Thanksgiving after he became CEO i
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Save $200 on Apple Watch Ultra 3 with Milanese Loop while supplies last
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Amazon is clearing out Apple Watch Ultra 3 inventory, with the premium Milanese Loop style $200 off while supplies last.
Save $200 on this Apple Watch Ultra 3 while supplies last - Image credit: Apple
You can grab the blowout deal on the Black Titanium Case style with a Black Titanium Milanese Loop Band in size Large.Marked down to $699.97 after a $200 discount, units are in stock now with delivery as early as tomorrow, depending on your shipping address.Save $200 on Apple Watch Ultra 3
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