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iOS 26.1 is coming soon, and possibly iOS 26.0.2 before that. But an anonymous X account with a proven track record of leaking Apple software updates indicates there might be a new version of the already-released iOS 26.0.1 coming too.

iOS 26 gave Apple Wallet a variety of new features, including an upgraded experience for boarding passes. Recently, United was the first major airline to support the new boarding passes. Here’s the full list of other airlines Apple says will offer support soon.

Apple has announced that Apple TV+ is no more. The company says that Apple TV+ is being renamed simply “Apple TV” with a “vibrant new identity.”

After exceeding box office expectations all summer, Apple’s F1 movie starring Brad Pitt now has an Apple TV streaming release date. As part of the announcement, Apple has rebranded Apple TV+ to Apple TV.

Apple Glasses are a high priority for Apple, so much so that the company has reportedly paused development of a lighter Vision Pro to focus on the Glasses product. A new rumor has helped make a lot of sense of that move, and has me more excited than ever for Apple Glasses.

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is rumored to launch next year, with expectations that it will be Apple’s most expensive iPhone ever. A new report from Ming-Chi Kuo doesn’t dispute that, but it does say that the unit price for the hinge is “significantly lower than expected.”

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup has, by all appearances, proven a hit with consumers so far. But the iPhone Air so far has been missing from one of Apple’s biggest markets: China. Fortunately, the iPhone Air’s arrival in China is almost here.

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In this week’s Security Bite, I’m taking it back over 20 years to the launch of Gmail in 2004–because that’s how long its little-known plus addressing (aliasing) feature has quietly existed. It was originally created to help with filtering and keeping inboxes tidy long before spam became what it is today. Google never really promoted it, so most people still don’t realize it’s a thing. But over the years, it’s become popular among privacy-minded folks to track which online services, subscriptions, etc., are selling email addresses to other companies or leaking them.

With the launch of AirPods Pro 3 last month, one detail about them surprised many people – they still utilized the H2 chip from 2022. This meant that most of AirPods Pro 3‘s upgrades came from better hardware, whether that be larger batteries or foam-infused ear tips, rather than Apple silicon magic. Despite that, Apple is hard at work on future AirPods silicon.

With Apple’s iPhone launch event out of the way, many enthusiasts have been looking forward to what’s next. The company generally does a product launch in October with some more minor product announcements, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we may see that in just a few days.

After releasing iOS 26 to the general public around a month ago, Apple is now preparing its second bug fix update for its new software release.

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If you want a lightweight, private, minimalistic, yet customizable web browsing experience on your iPhone – Quiche might be the perfect answer for you. It also offers a number of unique features to make it more tailored for power users than Safari.

In 2017, Apple launched a brand new app called Clips, a creative video app that originally could only make square aspect ratio movies. It had fun effects, automatic subtitle captions, and more. However, in a world of social video apps like TikTok, Clips never really gained traction.

After being dormant in the App Store for a while now, the company is finally pulling the plug. As confirmed by a new support document, Clips is no longer getting any app updates and has been pulled from the App Store.

With the release of macOS 26 Tahoe last month, users began noticing a major GPU slowdown issue in popular Electron apps, due to their usage of a particular private API. Now, the Electron team has fixed the issue, and said fix is beginning to roll out in popular third party apps that utilize the framework.

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In conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada, WayMeet Limited is recalling four models of their ESR wireless power banks.

According to CNBC, Apple is nearing a deal to acquire “talent and technology” of computer vision startup Prompt AI. Here are the details.

NSO, the Israeli company behind iPhone spyware Pegasus, is being acquired by a group of investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds. Here are the details.

Apple’s long-rumored HomePod with a screen—which I used to call ‘HomePad’ but now seems likely to be called ‘HomePod Touch’—is expected to launch in early 2026. Here are two reasons it can’t come soon enough.

The recent uncertainty around M5 MacBook Pro launch timing may be starting to clear up, as a new report indicates the base M5 MacBook Pro is launching soon, while higher-end models aren’t coming until later.

Earlier this year, iOS 18.4 brought support for Matter’s implementation of robot vacuums into HomeKit. I’ve been testing a few various models over the past few months, and SwitchBot has done a fantastic job. I’ve been using the SwitchBot K11+ for the past three months, and I am excited to talk about it this week.