Top Stories: iOS 26.3 and 26.4 Features, Foldable iPhone Details, and More

The iOS 26.3 merchandise looks to beryllium close astir the country with a highly anticipated iOS 26.4 update pursuing close behind, truthful Apple bundle rumors were large successful the quality this week.


Hardware wasn't near out, however, arsenic we're inactive awaiting a fewer early-year launches similar the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro, portion we're besides looking further down the roadworthy astatine large caller products coming aboriginal successful the twelvemonth similar the archetypal foldable iPhone, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

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iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

While the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate is now disposable to beta testers up of a nationalist release, the archetypal iOS 26.4 beta is apt inactive astatine slightest a week away. Following beta testing, iOS 26.4 volition apt beryllium released to the wide nationalist successful March oregon April.


Be definite to check retired our recap of known oregon rumored iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 features truthful acold truthful you're acceptable for the updates!

First Foldable iPhone Design Details Revealed

Apple's archetypal foldable iPhone volition feature relocated measurement buttons, an all-black camera plateau, a smaller Dynamic Island, and more, according to plan leaks from a known Weibo leaker.


A abstracted leaker has indicated the foldable iPhone could feature the biggest-ever iPhone battery and eclipse rival devices, checking successful astatine implicit 5,500 mAh successful size. That would marque it the largest capableness of immoderate existent oregon erstwhile ‌iPhone‌, arsenic the iPhone 17 Pro Max has the biggest artillery to day astatine 5,088 mAh.

Apple's CarPlay Ultra to Expand to These Vehicle Brands Later This Year

Last year, Apple launched CarPlay Ultra, the long-awaited next-generation mentation of its CarPlay bundle strategy for vehicles. Nearly 9 months later, CarPlay Ultra is inactive constricted to Aston Martin's latest luxury vehicles, but that should alteration reasonably soon.


In May 2025, Apple said galore different conveyance brands planned to connection CarPlay Ultra, including Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, and successful his Power On newsletter this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said helium was told that CarPlay Ultra volition travel to astatine slightest 1 large caller Hyundai oregon Kia conveyance exemplary "in the 2nd fractional of this year."

It is unclear if helium is referring to Hyundai's upcoming IONIQ 3, arsenic antecedently reported, oregon if it volition beryllium a antithetic model.

Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

Apple precocious updated its online store with a caller ordering process for Macs, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro.


There utilized to beryllium a fistful of modular configurations disposable for each Mac, but present you indispensable configure a Mac wholly from scratch connected a feature-by-feature basis. In different words, ordering a caller Mac present works overmuch similar ordering an iPad.

New MacBook Pros Reportedly Launching Alongside macOS 26.3

Apple is planning to motorboat caller MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips alongside macOS 26.3, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


"Apple's faster MacBook Pros are planned for the macOS 26.3 merchandise cycle," wrote Gurman, successful his Power On newsletter this week. "I'm told the caller models — code-named J714 and J716 — are slated for the macOS 26.3 bundle cycle, which runs from February done March," helium explained.

This comes arsenic third-party retailers are seeing banal of the existing models dwindle.

Apple Gives Final Warning to Home App Users

In 2022, Apple introduced a caller Apple Home architecture that is "more reliable and efficient," and the deadline to upgrade and debar issues is accelerated approaching.


In an email this week, Apple gave customers a last reminder to upgrade their Home app by February 10, 2026. Apple says users who bash not upgrade whitethorn acquisition issues with accessories and automations, oregon suffer entree to their astute location successful the app entirely. In addition, users who bash not upgrade volition miss retired connected newer features similar robot vacuum cleaner support, and they volition not person important information fixes and show improvements.

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