Top Stories: Apple Leaks, Siri AI Settlement, and More

The Apple rumor mill ne'er stops, and this week MacRumors was capable to interruption the quality of details connected respective upcoming products.


We're besides inactive learning much astir the just-released iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max positive the upcoming iPhone Duo, portion this week saw the debut of caller Beats 360 headphones and the commencement of assertion acceptance for the people enactment suit implicit Siri AI delays, truthful work connected beneath for each of the details connected these stories and more!

Top Stories

iPad Mini With A20 Pro, New HomePod Mini Colors, and New Apple TV 4K All Just Leaked

MacRumors this week leaked the next iPad mini, HomePod mini, and Apple TV 4K models, each of which are apt to beryllium announced this October arsenic portion of another question of merchandise launches including an all-new operating system to travel immoderate of the caller hardware.


The astir notable iPad mini details revealed successful the leaks see an A20 Pro chip, a caller talker design, and a scenery beforehand camera, portion images person revealed that the next HomePod mini volition beryllium disposable successful caller colors similar greenish and pink. There is besides grounds of an upcoming "Apple TV 4K (4th generation)" model, truthful it appears that a caller Apple TV is yet coming soon aft a four-year wait.

A abstracted Apple codification leak has confirmed immoderate rumored details for the 12th-generation iPad, though we're not expecting that to motorboat until aboriginal adjacent year.

Siri AI Settlement Website Now Live: Apple to Pay Some iPhone Owners

In May, Apple agreed to wage $250 cardinal to settee a U.S. people enactment suit implicit Siri AI's delayed launch, and the colony website is present live.


Apple volition wage an estimated $25 per eligible iPhone to eligible customers, who tin taxable a assertion via the colony website betwixt September 21 and December 21 of this year. The nonstop outgo whitethorn beryllium higher oregon little than $25 depending connected the full fig of valid claims submitted and different factors, with the maximum magnitude acceptable astatine $95.

Apple denies each of the allegations made successful the lawsuit, but agreed to the colony to debar the costs and risks of a trial.

iPhone 18 Pro Max Requires 'Prepare to Ship' Battery Drain Before Shipping

The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a single-cell artillery capableness implicit 20 watt-hours, which means determination are further shipping requirements. If an ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max needs to beryllium shipped somewhere, its maximum artillery capableness has to beryllium constricted done firmware.


According to Apple, the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max uses an "innovative battery-firmware solution" that limits artillery capableness to beneath 20Wh betwixt erstwhile the iPhone is manufactured and its transportation to a customer. Activating the iPhone removes the bounds to marque the battery's afloat charging capableness available.

Customers who request to vessel the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max for repair, trade-in, oregon different purposes person to usage a caller Prepare to Ship feature. Prepare to Ship discharges the artillery to beneath 20Wh and sets a complaint bounds truthful the iPhone stays beneath the threshold during the shipping process.

Apple Exec Says 'Hold Us Accountable' connected iPhone Duo Crease

Apple hardware engineering VP Tom Marieb precocious spoke with TechRadar and shared immoderate candid thoughts astir Apple's upcoming iPhone Duo.


The ‌iPhone Duo‌ uses a matte nano-texture display, which is meant to chopped down connected glare and minimize the visibility of the crease. When asked if the ‌iPhone Duo‌'s crease would beryllium much disposable implicit time, arsenic that's what tends to hap connected different foldables, Marieb said the nano-texture show would help. He asked radical to clasp the institution "accountable" connected crease visibility.

Marieb besides discussed the Duo's innovative hinge, the usage of Ceramic Shield 2 connected the beforehand display, and more.

Beats 360 Deliver Customizability and a Revamped Over-Ear Headphone Design

After months of teases and leaks, Apple's Beats marque officially announced its caller Beats 360 headphone this week. Priced astatine $349.99, Beats 360 represents a rethinking of the Beats over-ear headphone design, with an accent connected dependable quality, comfort, and customizability.


Beats 360 is not a replacement for the brand's Studio Pro over-ear headphone, arsenic the Studio Pro volition stay portion of the Beats lineup astatine a reduced terms constituent of $299.99, down from the erstwhile $349.99. Compared to Studio Pro, Beats 360 features a wholly caller acoustic architecture that delivers up to 1.75× much progressive sound cancellation and a 12dB summation successful output portion maintaining clarity crossed each frequencies with debased distortion.

Swappable receptor and headband cushions fto you customize your look by mixing and matching colors and materials, with Beats offering extra cushion kits astatine heavy discounted prices arsenic portion of a motorboat promo.

iPhone 20 Pro Display Sizes Leak Ahead of 2027 Launch

Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone lineup coming adjacent twelvemonth could diagnostic somewhat larger displays than the iPhone 18 Pro models, if a caller leak shared connected Weibo is accurate.


Prolific Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station claims that aboriginal iPhone 20 Pro show specifications see a 6.41-inch surface with a solution of astir 2,686 × 1,236 pixels, portion the iPhone 20 Pro Max is said to person a 6.96-inch show with a solution of astir 2,912 × 1,340 pixels.

For comparison, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max diagnostic 6.27 inches (rounded to 6.3 inches) and 6.86 inches (rounded to 6.9 inches) respectively. Meanwhile, the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max resolutions are 2,622 × 1,206 pixels and 2,868 × 1,320 pixels, respectively.

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