Top Stories: iOS 26.3 Released, New Siri Snags, and More

Apple continued to support users waiting for caller hardware this week, arsenic we've yet to spot immoderate of the important merchandise launches we're expecting to spot successful the archetypal fewer months of the year.


News connected the bundle broadside was a spot of a mixed container this week, with iOS 26.3 and different updates yet seeing their nationalist releases, though they chiefly absorption connected information fixes with lone a fewer user-facing changes. And the highly anticipated iOS 26.4 coming up adjacent mightiness not get with everything galore users person been hoping for, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

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iOS 26.3 Features: Everything New successful iOS 26.3

After astir 2 months of beta testing, Apple finally released iOS 26.3 and related updates to the nationalist this week.


As is communal for x.3 updates, the changes successful these are comparatively modest, though there are a fig of information improvements and a fewer caller features similar a instrumentality to marque it easier to transportation from an iPhone to an Android phone, immoderate changes to Weather wallpapers, and more.

New Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27

With iOS 26.3 retired the door, the archetypal beta of iOS 26.4 should beryllium arriving soon, but it mightiness travel with a catch. While we've been expecting iOS 26.4 to see important improvements to Siri with a new, much personalized experience, it present sounds similar we mightiness not beryllium getting that until iOS 26.5 oregon adjacent iOS 27.


According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has "run into snags" successful conscionable the past fewer weeks arsenic it has been investigating the caller Siri, and caller interior betas are suggesting Apple is moving galore of the caller capabilities from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5.

Apple Stores See iPhone 16e, iPad Air Shortages arsenic New Models Near

We're expecting a fewer Apple hardware releases successful the comparatively adjacent future, and Apple retail store shortages of iPhone 16e and iPad Air models lining up with circulating rumors whitethorn hint astatine those products being precise adjacent to receiving updates.


The caller iPhone 17e successful peculiar has been viewed arsenic "imminent," and it should bring respective improvements implicit the iPhone 16e, including enactment for MagSafe charging.

Why You Shouldn't Buy the Next MacBook Pro

While the entry-level MacBook Pro was updated with the M5 spot past October, we're inactive waiting for higher-end machines with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.


Those caller models should beryllium arriving shortly, but if you're funny successful cutting-edge technology, you mightiness privation to springiness those machines a skip. The M5 Pro and M5 Max models volition mostly conscionable beryllium speed-bumped versions of the existent generation, but there's a large revamp coming arsenic soon arsenic aboriginal this twelvemonth with an all-new design, OLED displays with touchscreen capabilities, and more.

Apple Expected to Launch These 10+ Products Over the Coming Months

While the iPhone 17e and updated iPad Air look imminent with caller MacBook Pro models not acold behind, Apple has adjacent much successful its near-term pipeline with at slightest 10 caller products expected implicit the adjacent fewer months.


Many of these are iterative updates to existing products, but we're expecting a fewer all-new ones successful the premix arsenic well. Potential delays to the revamped Siri whitethorn interaction timing of immoderate of them including the caller astute location hub and ecosystem, truthful we'll person to hold to spot however that timing plays out.

iPhone 18 Pro Max Rumored to Deliver Next-Level Battery Life

The iPhone 17 Pro Max is already a artillery beingness king, but the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max could instrumentality things adjacent further if a known leaker is correct. A caller study claims Apple volition beryllium trying to cram a spot much artillery capableness into this year's larger Pro model, pushing it up to 5,100 to 5,200 mAh.


Apple is reportedly besides working to instrumentality a mates of camera improvements connected this year's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, including a adaptable aperture connected the main camera and a wider fixed aperture connected the telephoto camera.

These imaginable improvements travel arsenic Apple is reportedly seeking to clasp the enactment connected pricing contempt important outgo increases for definite cardinal components.

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