Top Stories: 'Apple Upgrade' Program, Apple Music Price Hike, and More

It's been different engaged week successful the Apple world, led by connection that the institution is preparing to motorboat a caller instrumentality leasing and financing programme arsenic it has raised immoderate much prices including connected Apple Music subscriptions.


This week besides saw a caller circular of beta releases for iOS 27 and related updates, details connected astir a twelve caller Macs nether development, and more, truthful work connected beneath for each of the details!

Top Stories

'Apple Upgrade' Program Reportedly Launching Next Week

Apple and Klarna are partnering connected a new "Apple Upgrade" leasing program acceptable to motorboat successful the U.S. connected Tuesday, July 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


The programme volition let you to concern astir iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, with a 24-month word for iPhones and Apple Watches and a 36-month word for iPads and Macs. Customers volition beryllium capable to wage disconnected the instrumentality aboriginal during the term, upgrade aboriginal to a newer device, oregon support oregon instrumentality the existing instrumentality aft the term.

As portion of the transition, Apple volition wind down the existing iPhone Upgrade Program.

Apple Music Now Costs $11.99 arsenic Apple Increases Subscription Prices

Following past month's determination to rise prices crossed its Mac and iPad lineups, Apple past week expanded its terms increases adjacent further.


Apple Music saw terms increases crossed each tiers, with the alteration driving increases to Apple One bundles arsenic well. Apple besides raised iPhone prices successful Japan by up to 11%, possibly foreshadowing terms hikes successful different countries with the iPhone 18 lineup, if not earlier. And finally, Apple increased iCloud+ prices successful 8 countries.

Apple to Overhaul Mac Lineup With 11 New Models

Apple is preparing to refresh each Mac it sells implicit the adjacent 2 years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


The plans travel amid a Mac resurgence, with income projected to ascent for a 3rd consecutive year, partially acknowledgment to a increasing pursuing among users who thin connected the machines for demanding, agent-based AI workloads.

The question of caller Macs volition statesman this autumn with a refreshed entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and the archetypal caller iMacs successful 2 years. Check retired the afloat database of caller Macs nether development successful our coverage.

Everything New successful iOS 27 Beta 4

Apple is continuing to tweak iOS 27 up of its September launch, with the 4th developer beta and 2nd nationalist beta released this week.


Check retired our afloat database of tweaks and changes successful the latest beta, including immoderate caller settings toggles, ocular tweaks, and more.

Interestingly, immoderate caller codification successful this beta makes several references to an iPhone with aggregate interior batteries, hinting astatine the upcoming foldable "iPhone Ultra" that volition person a artillery successful each fractional of the device.

iOS 27: Access the New iPhone Recovery Screen

Since iOS 26, a malfunctioning iPhone has been capable to footwear itself into Recovery Assistant, with nary Mac oregon PC required. However, you could lone get determination if your instrumentality failed to commencement up and dropped into betterment connected its own.


In iOS 27, presently inactive successful beta, Apple has removed that limitation, and you can present manually footwear into a Mac-style betterment screen whenever you like.

The caller betterment mode lets you troubleshoot, update, oregon erase your instrumentality without needfully plugging it into anything. It tin link automatically to a known Wi-Fi network, and it shows your artillery percent successful the country of the screen. Check retired our guide to spot however to entree betterment mode and what the assorted options it offers tin do.

Hands-On With Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8, the Closest Thing Yet to a Foldable iPhone

Amid the ongoing hold for Apple's archetypal foldable iPhone expected successful conscionable a fewer months, Samsung this week introduced the Galaxy Z Fold8, which adopts a precise akin signifier origin to what we're expecting for Apple's device.


Samsung's Z Fold8 has a 7.6-inch show erstwhile unfastened and a 5.5-inch show erstwhile closed, and it has a passport-style signifier factor, truthful it's wider and much quadrate than anterior Samsung foldables.

The facet ratio of the unfolded Z Fold8 makes it consciousness akin to utilizing an iPad mini, which feels much earthy than utilizing taller foldables. It's a size that's cleanable for watching videos oregon moving 2 apps broadside by side. The Z Fold8 gives america a beauteous wide look astatine what the Apple foldable volition look similar and what it volition consciousness similar to use.

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