Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

Apple has each but fixed up connected the Vision Pro aft the M5 exemplary failed to revitalize involvement successful the device, MacRumors has learned. Apple updated the Vision Pro with a faster M5 spot and a much comfy set successful October 2025, but determination were nary different hardware changes, and consumers inactive weren't interested.


The Vision Pro has been criticized for its precocious terms tag and its uncomfortable weight. The instrumentality is implicit 1.3 pounds, and adjacent with the much comfy Dual Knit Band that Apple added to redistribute weight, it continues to beryllium hard to deterioration for agelong periods of time. The M5 spot added a 120Hz refresh rate, 10 percent much rendered pixels, and astir 30 further minutes of artillery life, but the terms tag stayed astatine $3,499, and it ended up not selling well.

The Vision Pro has been unpopular since it archetypal launched, and Apple only sold astir 600,000 units successful total. Insider sources told MacRumors that Apple has received an unusually precocious percent of returns, acold exceeding immoderate different modern Apple product.

Apple has seemingly stopped enactment connected the Vision Pro and the Vision Pro squad has been redistributed to different teams wrong Apple. Some erstwhile Vision Pro squad members are moving connected Siri, which is not a astonishment arsenic Vision Pro main Mike Rockwell has been leading the Siri team since March 2025.

There person been mixed rumors astir a caller Vision Pro implicit the past mates of years, with Apple rumored to beryllium moving connected a lighter-weight Vision Air that's overmuch cheaper, but the task was tabled past year. If Apple finds a mode to make a overmuch cheaper, much comfy VR headset successful the future, the Vision Pro enactment could beryllium revived, but close now, the institution has nary plans to motorboat a caller model. Apple has not discontinued the Vision Pro and is continuing to merchantability the M5 model.

Instead of continuing to experimentation with virtual reality, Apple is moving connected astute glasses that volition yet incorporated augmented world capabilities, but the archetypal mentation volition beryllium akin to the Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses with AI and nary integrated display.

Apple has not been capable to usage the exertion developed for the Vision Pro successful its astute glasses due to the fact that that tech draws excessively overmuch powerfulness for a smaller, lighter device.
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