Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Rumors, Apple Watch Turns 10, and More

We've known for rather immoderate clip astir Apple's plans for a thinner "iPhone 17 Air" coming aboriginal this year, but wow, the latest dummy models springiness america our champion look yet astatine conscionable however bladed this telephone is going to be.


Other Apple quality and rumors this week included different iOS 18.5 beta, the 10th day of the Apple Watch launch, and much absorption reshuffling successful Apple's Siri division, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

iPhone 17 Air's Extreme Thinness Demoed successful New Video

As we get person to the expected September motorboat of the iPhone 17 lineup, progressively blase dummy units from lawsuit manufacturers and others are starting to aboveground and they're highlighting just however bladed the upcoming "iPhone 17 Air" is going to be. In fact, it's going to beryllium barely heavy capable to location functional broadside buttons.


Check retired our recap of each of the features were expecting to see successful this caller ultra-thin iPhone model, including a caller rumor claiming it volition get the same 12GB of representation arsenic the upcoming Pro models.

AirPods Pro 3 Just Months Away – Here's What We Know

It sounds similar third-generation AirPods Pro earbuds are conscionable a fewer months away, with rumors suggesting we should spot them sometime aboriginal this year.


The rumors bespeak Apple's fashionable high-end earbuds should spot a slimmer signifier factor, a faster audio spot with improved Active Noise Cancelation, in-ear heart-rate tracking akin to that which debuted connected Powerbeats Pro 2 a fewer months ago, and more, truthful cheque retired our overview of everything we know astir the AirPods Pro 3.

iOS 18.5 Includes Only a Few Changes So Far

This week saw the merchandise of a new iOS 18.5 beta for developers and public beta testers, but truthful acold we're seeing precise fewer changes successful store for this update, with truly lone a mates of tweaks to the Mail and Settings apps discovered truthful far.


A mid-May nationalist merchandise for iOS 18.5 seems likely, but Apple is mostly turning its attraction to iOS 19 astatine this point, and we'll beryllium seeing that unveiled astatine WWDC successful aboriginal June.

iPhone 17 Pro Allegedly Coming successful Sky Blue Color Used for MacBook Air

Apple's Pro iPhone models typically travel successful a fistful of neutral colour options with 1 further colour that changes from twelvemonth to twelvemonth and stands retired a spot more. For the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max coming successful September, it sounds similar that could beryllium a Sky Blue color akin to the 1 that appeared connected the latest MacBook Air.


We're expecting rather a fewer changes for the iPhone 17 Pro, with the astir instantly evident 1 being a importantly larger rear camera bump.

Siri Management Team Gets Overhaul After Apple Intelligence Failure

As portion of the enactment shakeup successful the aftermath delays successful the improvement of an Apple Intelligence-powered Siri revamp, caller brag Mike Rockwell is shaking up the Siri absorption team to effort to respire caller beingness into the task and get it backmost connected track.


The determination comes arsenic Apple continues to beforehand Apple Intelligence features that are disposable similar Clean Up successful the Photos app, though the institution has pulled backmost connected immoderate of its "available now" selling for Apple Intelligence aft push-back from a user advocacy group.

Apple Watch Launched 10 Years Ago This Week

This week marks the 10-year day of the archetypal Apple Watch launching successful the United States and 8 different countries astir the world. While it was initially announced successful September 2014, the revolutionary wearable instrumentality didn't officially motorboat until April 24, 2015.


As portion of the anniversary, Apple celebrated Global Close Your Rings Day, with a peculiar badge and animated iMessage stickers disposable to each users who closed their Move, Stand, and Exercise rings connected Thursday. Apple is besides giving retired limited-edition carnal pins astatine its retail stores portion supplies last.

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