Top Stories: iPhone 18 Pro Leaks, Siri Chatbot, Apple AI Pin, and More

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Apple rumors are starting to prime up present that we're a fewer weeks into 2026, and this week saw immoderate imaginable clarity astir conflicting iPhone 18 Pro rumors, positive immoderate caller connection connected Apple's plans for Siri.


This week besides saw a study that Apple is moving connected immoderate benignant of AI pin portion besides making advancement toward a large MacBook Pro revamp, truthful work connected beneath for each the details!

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iPhone 18 Pro Leak: Smaller Dynamic Island, No Top-Left Camera Cutout


Over the past fewer months, rumors astir the iPhone 18 Pro's front-panel plan person been conflicted, with immoderate proviso concatenation leaks pointing to under-display Face ID, reports suggesting a top-left hole-punch camera, and statement implicit whether the acquainted Dynamic Island volition shrink, shift, oregon vanish entirely.


According to predominant Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital, however, aboriginal reports from Chinese and Korean sources astir the imaginable relocation of an infrared Face ID constituent were aboriginal mistranslated successful immoderate English-language coverage, starring to incorrect claims of a hole-punch camera. In fact, the Dynamic Island volition stay connected the iPhone 18 Pro and simply beryllium roughly 35% narrower. That smaller Dynamic Island mentation has besides been corroborated by respected show expert Ross Young.

Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Launch Moves Closer With Panel Production


Rumors person been pointing toward Apple launching a revamped MacBook Pro with OLED displays precocious this twelvemonth oregon aboriginal adjacent year, and things look to person taken a measurement guardant this month with a study claiming that Samsung's accumulation enactment that volition nutrient displays for the caller laptop has gone into operation.


The MacBook Pro is just 1 of 5 Apple products expected to summation OLED displays successful the adjacent fewer years arsenic Apple continues to follow the much precocious show technology.

Before the MacBook Pro gets OLED displays, there's inactive different update to the existent mentation successful the works to adhd M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. with rumors and shipping delays suggesting a motorboat could beryllium coming reasonably soon.

A Siri Chatbot is Coming successful iOS 27


Apple plans to crook Siri into a chatbot that volition rival Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bloomberg reported this week. Apple did not initially program to present a chatbot, but their popularity forced Apple executives to reconsider.


Codenamed Campos, the ‌Siri‌ chatbot volition beryllium integrated into iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, replacing the existent mentation of ‌Siri‌. It volition person the aforesaid earthy connection speech functionality arsenic chatbots similar ChatGPT, and it volition beryllium accessible by utilizing the "‌Siri‌" aftermath connection oregon by holding down the broadside fastener connected an iPhone oregon iPad.

The chatbot mentation of Siri arriving successful iOS 27 aboriginal this twelvemonth volition travel the archetypal upgrade to a much personalized mentation of the existent Siri that we expect to get successful conscionable a fewer months with iOS 26.4.

Apple's Next iPhone: What to Expect From the 2026 iPhone 17e


We're apt conscionable weeks distant from Apple's adjacent iPhone launch, with the institution acceptable to present the ‌iPhone‌ 17e. The ‌iPhone‌ 17e is simply a follow-up to the iPhone 16e that came retired successful February 2025, and rumors suggest that it could person immoderate invited improvements.


Check retired our recap of each the rumors we've heard astir the adjacent mentation of Apple's cheapest iPhone exemplary to assistance determine if it mightiness beryllium the close 1 for you.

Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras


Apple is working connected a small, wearable AI pin equipped with aggregate cameras, a speaker, and microphones, reports The Information. If it really launches, the AI pin volition apt tally the caller Siri chatbot that Apple plans to unveil successful iOS 27.


The pin is said to beryllium akin successful size to an AirTag, with a thin, flat, circular disc shape. It has an aluminum and solid shell, and 2 cameras astatine the front. There is simply a modular lens and a wide-angle lens that are meant to seizure photos and videos, portion 3 microphones are designed to prime up dependable astir the wearer. An included talker allows the pin to play audio, and determination is simply a carnal power fastener on 1 edge. The instrumentality is capable to wirelessly complaint similar an Apple Watch.

iPhone 18 Rumored to Feature Much Brighter Display


Apple's iPhone 18 will diagnostic a importantly brighter display, according to a Chinese leaker.


In a station this week connected Weibo, the idiosyncratic known arsenic Instant Digital said that Chinese supplier BOE has small anticipation of making panels for the ‌iPhone 18‌ due to the fact that Apple's brightness requirements for the next-generation instrumentality are unprecedentedly high. This suggests that the ‌iPhone 18‌'s show volition spot a sizeable leap guardant successful presumption of brightness.

While the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to motorboat successful the accustomed September clip frame, the regular iPhone 18‌ isn't expected to motorboat until aboriginal 2027.

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