Top Stories: iOS 26 Incoming?, iPhone 17 Pro Rumors, and More

There was blockbuster quality this week regarding Apple's naming conventions, portion WhatsApp yet made the leap to iPad aft 15 years.


Other quality this week included a study connected Apple's now-scaled-back aspirations for providing satellite-based net service, tidbits connected Apple's plans for astute location hubs including 1 with a robotic arm, and more, truthful work connected beneath for each the details!

No iOS 19: Apple Going Straight to iOS 26

Here's a shocking rumor little than 2 weeks up of WWDC: Apple is reportedly going to overhaul the numbering normal it uses for its assorted operating systems, unifying them each nether a "26" branding to correspond the upcoming year, overmuch similar however car manufacturers typically merchandise their caller exemplary years precocious successful the erstwhile year.


So accidental goodbye to what we thought were going to beryllium iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, tvOS 19, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3, due to the fact that it looks similar they're each conscionable going to beryllium numbered "26."

iPhone 17 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features

Apple's Pro iPhone models are usually the item of the September merchandise cycle, and portion they'll person immoderate contention this twelvemonth from the caller ultra-thin "iPhone 17 Air," we're inactive expecting immoderate precise notable changes for Apple's astir costly iPhone models.


Check retired our overview of a twelve important changes we're expecting successful the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, including immoderate ocular changes that volition marque it instantly evident if you person Apple's latest iPhone model.

Looking further ahead, a root claims Apple has been testing a 200-megapixel camera sensor for the iPhone. That would apt archetypal look arsenic the Main camera successful Pro iPhone models, but it's astir apt a twelvemonth oregon 2 away.

WhatsApp for iPad Now Available

Incredibly, 1 of the biggest quality stories of the week was the launch of an iPad-optimized mentation of WhatsApp, much than 15 years aft the messaging work debuted. WhatsApp teased the launch aboriginal this week, and released the app conscionable a time later.


With WhatsApp present disposable for iPad, attraction is present connected Meta's different large app still lacking a autochthonal iPad app, Instagram.

Apple Pulls Some Features From Rumored Smart Home Robot

Apple's rumored astute location tabletop robot has been the taxable of immoderate intriguing rumors implicit the past fewer years, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is pulling immoderate of the "bolder features" planned for it successful bid to bring it to marketplace faster. The unspecified features could look successful aboriginal models.


The tabletop robot volition reportedly diagnostic an iPad-like show connected a robotic limb that tin set to stay successful presumption of a idiosyncratic moving astir the room, and it would beryllium capable to respond to dependable commands.

The robot is rumored to travel a simpler astute location hub that Gurman says could motorboat "by the extremity of this twelvemonth astatine the earliest."

Report: Apple Planned to Offer Starlink-Like Home Internet Service

A decennary ago, Apple reportedly explored moving with Boeing to motorboat a Starlink-like outer net service for Phones and homes, according to The Information. The companies would person launched thousands of satellites into orbit astir the Earth to beam net services down to the surface.


The task was yet nixed implicit concerns related to outgo and Apple's narration with carriers, and the institution yet partnered with Globalstar connected the overmuch much humble outer services Apple presently offers connected caller iPhone models. Just this week, Apple expanded Messages and Find My via outer to Mexico, joining existing sum successful the U.S. and Canada adjacent arsenic the institution is reportedly weighing whether it's worthy continuing to connection the features arsenic carriers person started to present their ain outer services.

iOS 18 Leak Reveals Apple Tested MacBook Pros With M3 Ultra Chip

While Apple's highest-end M3 Ultra spot is presently constricted to the Mac Studio, it appears that Apple tested the spot successful the MacBook Pro arsenic well.


A idiosyncratic connected Chinese societal media level BiliBili claims to person recovered codification references to unreleased 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with the M3 Ultra spot successful an interior physique of iOS 18 moving connected an iPhone 16 engineering prototype. Apple of people yet did not merchandise an M3 Ultra MacBook Pro, perchance implicit thermal and/or powerfulness concerns, but it's absorbing to spot that Apple seemingly tested the spot successful that signifier factor.

Sony's New WH-1000XM6 Headphones vs. AirPods Max

Sony precocious came retired with a caller acceptable of high-end over-ear sound canceling headphones, truthful we thought we'd comparison them to the AirPods Max to spot however Sony's 2025 headphones measurement up to Apple's headphones that haven't seen a notable update since their 2020 launch.


In 1 of our latest YouTube videos, Dan takes a look astatine the 2 sets of headphones, uncovering that portion the AirPods Max connection immoderate cardinal benefits for the Apple ecosystem, Sony's latest headphones present a much comfy acceptable and a amended wide package.

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