Top Stories: iOS 26.1 Beta, iPhone Scratches, Apple TV Rumors, and More

iPhone motorboat period is coming to a close, but there's inactive plentifulness to speech astir successful the Apple satellite including ongoing discoveries with the caller hardware and software.


Apple is besides preparing immoderate tweaks and additions successful iOS 26.1 and different updates, portion we're inactive expecting immoderate different hardware updates earlier the extremity of the year. If you're a student, you should besides instrumentality enactment that Apple's yearly Back to School promotion successful galore countries volition beryllium wrapping up soon, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

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Everything New successful iOS 26.1 Beta 1

Yep, Apple is already moving guardant with the archetypal important update for iOS 26, arsenic it seeded the archetypal beta of iOS 26.1 and related updates to developers and nationalist beta testers this week.


The update expands Apple Intelligence and AirPods Live Translation to further languages, brings a caller Liquid Design to the dial pad successful the Phone app, makes immoderate ocular tweaks to Safari, Calendar, and different apps, and more.

Two iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air Colors Appear to Scratch More Easily

Some of the caller iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air models connected show astatine Apple Stores connected motorboat time were already exhibiting scratches and scuffs, peculiarly connected darker finishes similar the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max successful Deep Blue and the iPhone Air successful Space Black.


Apple has blamed the blemishes connected worn MagSafe chargers being utilized successful stores and claims the marks are removable with cleaning, though it acknowledges certain areas specified arsenic the edges of the camera plateaus whitethorn prime up tiny abrasions implicit clip done mean deterioration and tear.

iPhone 16 Pro Max 80% Charge Limit: One Year Later, Was It Worth It?

For respective years, Apple has allowed iPhone users to acceptable a customized complaint bounds for their devices, capping the complaint astatine 80%, 85%, 90%, oregon 95% with an oculus toward preserving artillery health.


We ran a one-year experimentation with an iPhone 16 Pro Max, mounting its complaint bounds to 80% and seeing however its artillery wellness compared implicit clip to different instrumentality utilized without immoderate restrictions. Check retired the results of our trial to spot whether it mightiness beryllium a bully thought to set your charging habits!

Next Apple TV Expected to Launch This Year With These New Features

We're inactive expecting respective hardware updates earlier the extremity of the year, and the Apple TV is 1 of those products connected the list.


In the aftermath of Apple's iPhone and different announcements earlier this month, we've revisited and recapped rumors astir what we whitethorn spot with the adjacent update to Apple's set-top box.

Apple Confirms iOS 26 Wallet Passport Feature is Coming successful 2025

One of the announced iOS 26 features that was missing astatine motorboat was the Digital ID diagnostic that volition bring U.S. passports to the Wallet app connected iPhone.


With the motorboat of iOS 26, Apple said that the diagnostic would beryllium coming successful a bundle update, and the institution has present updated the wording connected its iOS 26 features leafage to corroborate the diagnostic volition beryllium coming aboriginal this year.

There's nary disposable motion of the diagnostic successful the archetypal iOS 26.1 beta seeded this week, but galore of these Wallet ID features similar driver's licenses for assorted U.S. states (including the imminent summation of North Dakota) tin beryllium activated server-side by Apple without necessitating a circumstantial iOS update.

Apple's 'Back to School' Offer Ends Soon, Now Applies to AirPods Pro 3

Apple's annual "Back to School" promotion for students successful the U.S. and a fig of different countries ends soon, truthful enactment accelerated if you privation to people escaped AirPods with the acquisition of an eligible caller Mac oregon iPad.


In summation to mundane discounted pricing for students, the promotion offers escaped oregon discounted accessories specified arsenic AirPods oregon Apple Pencils with the acquisition of an eligible Mac oregon iPad. Notably, the caller AirPods Pro 3 are present included successful the promotion arsenic a discounted accessory option.

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