Top Stories: iOS 26.1 Imminent, iPhone 18 Rumors, and More

After a flurry of Apple releases successful September successful October, the calendar has present turned to November, but that doesn't needfully mean Apple is done making quality for 2025.


Beyond those nearer-term bundle and hardware update expectations, this week saw caller rumors astir the iPhone 18 lineup, respective aboriginal Mac and iPad models, and more, truthful work connected beneath for each the details!

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Apple Seeds iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 Release Candidates

The nationalist releases of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, and related updates look to beryllium close astir the corner, with Apple seeding merchandise campaigner versions of each of the updates this week.


iOS 26.1 brings several caller features and changes, including a toggle to set the opaqueness of the caller Liquid Glass design. We took a look astatine whether utilizing the Clear oregon Tinted design, arsenic good arsenic trying respective different accessibility adjustments that tin impact the Liquid Glass look, has immoderate interaction connected artillery life, but didn't find thing significant.

iPhone 18 Pro Rumored to Support Full 5G Satellite Internet

While Apple has been gradually gathering retired satellite-related features for its lineup of iPhone and much precocious Apple Watch models, each of the features person truthful acold been constricted to low-bandwidth applications similar messaging.


That whitethorn alteration adjacent year, however, with a caller study claiming that Apple is working connected adding enactment for afloat 5G outer net access arsenic soon arsenic adjacent twelvemonth successful the iPhone 18 Pro models.

In different iPhone 18 rumors this week, we heard astir imaginable for a simpler Camera Control design successful adjacent year's phones, arsenic good arsenic a DSLR-style adaptable aperture for the Main camera connected iPhone 18 Pro models. The basal iPhone 18 whitethorn besides spot a 50% bump successful representation to 12GB, matching the higher-end models.

Apple TV 4K Could Still Launch Before 2025 Ends: All the Rumored Features

Apple is designing an updated mentation of the Apple TV 4K, and rumors suggest that it could travel retired sometime successful the adjacent mates of months. We're not expecting a large overhaul with plan changes, but adjacent a elemental spot upgrade volition bring large improvements to Apple's set-top box.


We've rounded up each the latest ‌Apple TV‌ rumors successful a caller nonfiction and accompanying video, truthful beryllium definite to cheque it retired for an overview of everything we whitethorn spot successful the forthcoming update.

Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads successful Maps App

Apple Maps could diagnostic integrated ads arsenic soon arsenic adjacent year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.


In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that Apple's program to bring much ads to iOS is "gaining traction," with the Maps app being adjacent successful line. The task volition seemingly springiness restaurants and different businesses the enactment to wage to person their details featured much prominently successful search.

Apple Expanding OLED Displays to iPad Mini, iPad Air, and MacBook Models

We've known for immoderate clip that Apple has been moving to bring OLED displays to the MacBook Pro, but a caller study from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reveals Apple's OLED plans are overmuch broader than that.


Gurman says the iPad mini volition summation an OLED show arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent year, portion the iPad Air volition beryllium updated with OLED nary sooner than 2027. The iPad Pro was updated with OLED past year.

On the Mac side, pursuing the MacBook Pro successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027, the MacBook Air should besides yet beryllium upgraded to OLED, but astir apt not until 2028 astatine the earliest.

M4 MacBook Air vs. M5 MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide

Apple has present refreshed some tiers of its MacBook lineup successful 2025, archetypal updating the MacBook Air with the M4 spot and conscionable this period introducing the MacBook Pro with the caller M5 chip, so however bash the latest models compare?


While the 13- and 15-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ proceed to commencement astatine $999 and $1,199 respectively, moving to the 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ requires spending astatine slightest $400 more. For immoderate buyers, the other outgo is unnecessary; for others, the Pro's hardware advantages meaningfully alteration the acquisition successful ways the Air cannot lucifer adjacent with higher configurations. Our latest usher helps to reply the question of however to determine which of these 2 fashionable laptops is champion for you.

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