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This week’s top stories: iPhone SE & iPad Pro 9.7 reviews, iOS 9.3 troubles, iPhone 7 leaks, & Apple’s 40th b-day

Apple’s 40th birthday week came alongside some troubles for iOS 9.3, as our top stories this week surrounded a number of bugs, fixes and responses from Apple related to iOS 9.3 problems and the fix with the release of iOS 9.3.1.

But those issues were balanced out by our excitement over our first impressions with the new iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro, as well as the latest leaks for iPhone 7 and other upcoming next-generation iPhones.

iOS 9.3/9.3.1

This week we start things off with Apple’s iOS 9.3 troubles, which caused crashing for many users when clicking certain links in Safari and other apps. Apple ultimately addressed the problem for iPhone and iPad users with the release of iOS 9.3.1.

iPhone 7

Next we move onto the latest rumors and leaks for Apple’s upcoming iPhone lineup…

iPhone SE

And finally, we end things with our hands-on first impressions and reviews of the iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7-inch (including our top video of the week), as the device this week started arriving for customers who pre-ordered following Apple’s unveiling earlier this month.

iPad Pro 9.7 inch

Apple’s 40th birthday

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Comments

  1. iali87 - 8 years ago

    Taking pictures with my new iPad pro and not being able to annotate them with the Apple pencil is really annoying :(

  2. cydianerd - 8 years ago

    This weekend Apple had many things to get done. One of the ugliest thing was iOS 9.3 issues and release of iOS 9.3.1 to fix the issues.

  3. If Apple is increasing the 5.5″ model to 5.8″, can hope they do the same with 4.7″ to 5.0″.

  4. Carl Pitts - 8 years ago

    Whats the clock on the left??

  5. Thomas Talving - 8 years ago

    What clock is that?

  6. Navin Thirugnanam - 8 years ago

    I am very particular about the selfie cam.. will the downgrade from f/2.2 to f/2.4 be a deal breaker in terms of picture quality and shutter speed ?? The shutter speed with the first gen finger print sensor is a bigger turn off for me. Techies pls help me on the same. I find my 5s to be better in terms of selfies when compared to that of Iphone 5

  7. Ramon Soltero III - 8 years ago

    The clock is a Nixie Tube Clock

  8. susan kirsch - 8 years ago

    I uploaded some Photos to my new IPAD Pro 9.7 and all the photos I edited in Photos that I had to rotate saved to my Photos with no issues but when I Emailed them they were received with black gray and white equally separted lines going through half the photograph. Solution none after consulation with supervisor of Photo App with AppleCare so until I go into Apple store for help I cannot rotate any photographs in Photo application that comes with IPAD software.

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Avatar for Jordan Kahn Jordan Kahn

Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s Logic Pros series.