Top Stories: Apple's 2026 Plans, iPhone Fold Mockup Hands-On, and More

Happy New Year! We're kicking disconnected 2026 with a look astatine everything we're expecting to spot from Apple this year, including respective caller merchandise categories, though hopefully Apple besides has immoderate surprises successful store for us.


We besides went hands-on with a speculative 3D-printed mockup of 1 of those cardinal caller products, the alleged "iPhone Fold," portion this week besides saw Fitness+ updates for those New Year's resolutions, immoderate unreleased aboriginal prototype AirPods cases successful amusive colors, and more, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

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Everything Apple Is Releasing successful 2026: iPhone Fold, LLM Siri, Low-Cost MacBook and More

If rumors are accurate, 2026 is going to beryllium a immense twelvemonth for Apple. We're expecting the archetypal foldable iPhone, an all-new location hub device, updated displays, and possibly, the archetypal OLED MacBook Pro and the archetypal AI astute glasses.


Apple volition divided its iPhone launches, present a low-cost MacBook, and debut a overmuch smarter, LLM-based mentation of Siri. In our 2026 guide, we've outlined everything we cognize astir the caller products coming from Apple this year, based connected existent rumors.

Got a New iPhone 17? How to Use All the New Features

Apple's iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max person been disposable to bargain since September, and a just fewer volition person been talented implicit the holidays.


If you're the arrogant proprietor of 1 of these devices, past make definite to cheque retired our overview of cardinal features disposable successful Apple's latest iPhone models. Whether you're upgrading from an older iPhone oregon wholly caller to the devices, our summary of how-tos volition assistance you get the astir retired your caller ‌iPhone‌.

Hands-On With a Rough iPhone Fold Mockup

Apple is rumored to beryllium introducing a foldable iPhone successful September 2026, and since it volition bring the biggest signifier origin alteration since the ‌iPhone‌ was introduced successful 2007, curiosity astir the plan is high. A 3D decorator created an "iPhone Fold" plan based connected rumors, and we printed it retired to spot however it compares to Apple's existent iPhones.


The foldable ‌iPhone‌ is going to beryllium smaller than immoderate existent ‌iPhone‌ erstwhile it's closed, and it'll beryllium shorter than Samsung's Galaxy foldables. Rumors suggest it'll beryllium determination astir 5.4 inches, which would marque it arsenic tiny arsenic the now-discontinued ‌iPhone‌ 13 mini.

When unfolded, the upcoming ‌iPhone‌ Fold volition beryllium bigger than immoderate ‌iPhone‌ to date, and not excessively acold disconnected successful size from the archetypal iPad mini. The existent ‌iPad mini‌ has an 8.3-inch surface size, but the archetypal models had a 7.9-inch display.

This caller signifier origin volition necessitate immoderate updates to iOS to optimize the idiosyncratic experience, but determination are inactive galore unknowns including whether oregon not the instrumentality volition enactment the Apple Pencil.

Apple Announces New Fitness+ Workout Programs, Strava Challenge, and More

The Apple Fitness+ Instagram relationship this week teased that the work has "big plans" for 2026. In a video, respective Apple Fitness+ trainers are shown holding up newspapers with headlines related to Apple Fitness+.


On Friday, Apple announced a bid of updates for Fitness+ and Apple Watch enactment tracking, including a New Year's enactment challenge, a "Quit Quitting" situation successful the Strava app, caller multi-week Fitness+ programs to assistance users instrumentality to their fittingness resolutions for 2026, caller creator spotlights for workouts, and caller Time to Walk episodes.

Apple Tested AirPods successful Bright Colors

Apple reportedly tested a mentation of the first-generation AirPods with bright, iPhone 5c-like colored charging cases.


The images, shared by the Apple leaker and prototype collector known arsenic "Kosutami," claim to amusement first-generation AirPods prototypes with pinkish and yellowish exterior casings. The interiors of the charging cases and the earbuds themselves stay white.

They look adjacent to immoderate of the colour options offered for the ‌iPhone‌ 5c, which came successful blue, green, pink, yellowish and white. Apple has lone ever released AirPods successful white.

Report: Apple's AI Strategy Could Finally Pay Off successful 2026

Apple's restrained artificial quality strategy whitethorn wage disconnected successful 2026 amid the accomplishment of a revamped Siri and concerns astir the AI marketplace "bubble" bursting, The Information argues.


The speculative study argues that marketplace sentiment toward AI spending is opening to amusement signs of skepticism, with questions emerging implicit whether ample investments by the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Meta tin beryllium justified by near-term revenue. Against that backdrop, Apple's determination to bounds AI-specific superior expenditures has near it with much than $130 cardinal successful currency and marketable securities, giving the institution the enactment to prosecute acquisitions oregon partnerships if valuations of AI startups fall.

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