Top Stories: iPhone 17 Pro Rumors, iOS 26 Beta 3, and More

The iOS 26 nationalist beta merchandise is rapidly approaching, portion developers person precocious gotten their hands connected a 3rd circular of betas that has seen Apple proceed to tweak features, design, and functionality.


We're besides continuing to perceive rumors astir the iPhone 17 lineup that is present conscionable astir close astir the corner, portion Apple's latest big-budget movie appears to beryllium taking off, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

Here's How the iPhone 17 Pro Max Will Compare to the iPhone 17 Pro

We're conscionable a mates of months distant from the unveiling of the iPhone 17 lineup, and portion the Pro exemplary and its Pro Max sibling volition disagree successful show size and artillery beingness arsenic usual, it's looking similar the Pro Max exemplary mightiness get a spot thicker this year.


Those Pro and Pro Max models volition besides reportedly beryllium shifting backmost to an aluminum chassis akin to that utilized connected non-Pro models, aft a fig of years of utilizing much premium stainless alloy and aboriginal titanium.

Recent rumors besides bespeak that the Apple logo volition displacement little connected the rear casings of the Pro models owed to the ample camera bumps, and recent renders from leaker Majin Bu exemplify however this whitethorn look with revised MagSafe rings connected wide cases.

And if the changes coming successful the iPhone 17 Pro models aren't capable to get you successful the temper for an upgrade, cheque retired our database of five reasons wherefore you mightiness privation to hold until the adjacent update.

Everything New successful iOS 26 Beta 3

Apple is continuing to refine and update iOS 26, and the 3rd developer beta released this week features smaller changes than we saw successful beta 2, positive further tweaks to the Liquid Glass design. Apple is gearing up for the adjacent signifier of beta testing, and the institution has promised that a nationalist beta is acceptable to travel retired successful July.


The continued refinement of the Liquid Glass aesthetic is surely generating controversy, with immoderate users appreciating greater readability that has resulted from toning immoderate elements of the plan down, portion others are disappointed astatine the rollback from a existent Liquid Glass to what immoderate are calling much of a Frosted Glass look.

iOS 26: What's Changed With the iPhone's Home Screen

The Home Screen is simply a halfway portion of the iPhone experience, and iOS 26 is bringing immoderate absorbing changes to this facet that astir each idiosyncratic interacts with connected a regular basis.


Beyond the basal Liquid Glass design, wallpaper choices instrumentality vantage of the caller aesthetic to much thoroughly taxable the acquisition arsenic you tin spot done much of the idiosyncratic interface elements. Apple has besides made immoderate enhancements to assorted app icon options for Light, Dark, and Tinted, which are joined by the caller Clear enactment if you privation to spell for the afloat solid look.

Apple's $350 Million Gamble connected 'F1' Is Starting to Pay Off

Apple's latest archetypal film, "F1: The Movie," has become the company's highest-grossing theatrical merchandise to date, earning implicit $293 cardinal globally wrong 10 days of release, according to manufacture estimates.


Apple has been selling the heck retired of the Brad Pitt film, and the institution is reportedly present looking to perchance thrust that momentum to bid connected streaming rights for Formula 1 racing successful the United States.

Here's Which Vehicles Offer iPhone Car Keys

In 2020, Apple added a integer car cardinal diagnostic to its Wallet app, allowing users to lock, unlock, and commencement a compatible conveyance with an iPhone oregon Apple Watch. The diagnostic is presently offered by prime automakers, including Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and a fistful of others, and it is acceptable to grow further.


Apple has a web leafage with a database of conveyance models that enactment iPhone car keys, but it has not been updated successful a while, truthful it is missing immoderate caller additions and we've enactment unneurotic a much implicit list of vehicles wherever the useful diagnostic is available.

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