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This week besides saw a caller circular of betas for iOS 26.1 and related updates with a important tweak for Liquid Glass, portion we heard much rumors astir Apple's plans for aboriginal iPhone models, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!
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Apple's iPhone Air Experiment Fails arsenic Supply Chain Cuts Production by 80%
A fig of proviso concatenation reports successful caller days person indicated that Apple's caller ultra-thin iPhone Air is not selling good overall, and Apple has reportedly dramatically scaled backmost accumulation to conscionable the existent levels of demand.
Analysts astatine Mizuho Securities indicated past week Friday that Apple was planning to chopped iPhone Air production amid underwhelming sales, and this week different expert survey revealed "virtually nary demand" for iPhone Air portion noted expert Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that iPhone Air suppliers are expected to reduce capableness by much than 80%.
Reports of dire wide income of iPhone Air travel conscionable arsenic the instrumentality sold retired upon motorboat successful China past week, though it's unclear what the sustained levels of request volition beryllium there. The eSIM-only iPhone Air saw a delayed motorboat successful China owed to required approvals for the technology.
iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency with New Toggle
Apple made a large alteration to its caller Liquid Glass plan successful the 4th betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 released this week, introducing a toggle that allows users to choose betwixt a much glass-like Clear look and a much opaque Tinted look.
We went hands-on with the caller option to spot however the 2 looks differ, with the Clear 1 emphasizing the glassy aspects of the caller plan and the Tinted 1 making buttons and different idiosyncratic interface elements much readable successful immoderate circumstances.
The fourth beta of iOS 26.1 features a fewer different changes, including an enactment to crook disconnected the Lock Screen swipe motion that usually opens the Camera app, an enactment to crook disconnected haptic feedback erstwhile telephone calls are connected oregon dropped, and more.
Apple's Plan to Launch Three New iPhone Designs Allegedly Revealed
We've been proceeding rumors astir Apple introducing respective caller phones successful the coming years, and a new study corroborates details connected Apple's plans.
Apple volition reportedly beryllium launching its archetypal foldable iPhone successful 2026, featuring a publication benignant akin to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold, though immoderate analysts person concerns that enactment connected the important hinge of the instrumentality could propulsion a merchandise backmost to 2027.
After the archetypal foldable, Apple is expected to merchandise a peculiar 20th-anniversary iPhone with "zero" bezels astir the show with the OLED show bending astir each 4 sides of the device. And successful 2028, Apple volition reportedly merchandise a clamshell-style foldable iPhone akin to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip.
M4 vs. M5 Chip Buyer's Guide: How Much Better Really Is M5?
Apple debuted its caller M5 spot past week successful the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro, but just however overmuch amended is it than the previous-generation M4 chip?
Apple emphasizes beardown improvements successful graphics and AI capabilities, with much humble gains successful CPU performance, though it inactive features the highest single-core CPU show score ever seen successful Geekbench benchmark testing.
GM to Remove CarPlay from All Future Vehicles, Including Gas Cars
Back successful 2023, General Motors made waves for its determination to extremity enactment for CarPlay and Android Auto successful its electrical vehicles, forcing users toward what it claimed was a much integrated acquisition successful the autochthonal infotainment system.
While the determination didn't beryllium good with galore imaginable car buyers, GM not lone didn't backmost down but has present revealed that it volition beryllium making the aforesaid determination successful its gas-powered lineup arsenic those vehicles get large refreshes.
Calling it "a precise Jobsian attack to things," GM likened its determination to Steve Jobs' efforts to signifier retired the disk thrust and different technologies successful favour of much modern solutions. GM didn't springiness a timeline for the modulation and told MacRumors that existing gas-powered vehicles volition proceed to connection CarPlay for the "foreseeable future," but that they volition "gradually determination to a better, much profoundly integrated experience."
Former Apple Employee Sam Sung Changed His Name to Avoid Attention
Apple fans who person followed the institution for a portion whitethorn retrieve the communicative of Sam Sung, an Apple retail worker from Vancouver, Canada, who drew attraction for his name's similarity to that of 1 of Apple's superior competitors.
Business Insider recently caught up with him, learning astir the accent helium endured owed to the publicity. Sung near Apple successful 2013 amid a tendency to determination connected from retail, and helium aboriginal changed his sanction due to the fact that helium "didn't privation to beryllium known for being an net joke."
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