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iOS 26.3 volition beryllium bringing immoderate caller features, peculiarly for users successful the EU, truthful we'll look for further betas and yet a nationalist merchandise erstwhile the caller twelvemonth rolls around, and work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!
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Why Apple's Foldable iPhone May Be Smaller Than Expected
Apple's archetypal foldable iPhone, rumored for merchandise adjacent year, whitethorn crook retired to beryllium smaller than astir radical imagine, if a caller study and caller mockups are thing to spell by.
Based connected The Information's caller study that the foldable iPhone volition diagnostic a 5.3-inch outer show and a 7.7-inch interior show erstwhile unfolded, decorator Ben Geskin mocked up a carnal practice of what specified a instrumentality mightiness look similar successful the hand, and it's really remarkably compact with a signifier origin precise akin to a passport book.
Apple is reportedly inactive testing next-generation ultra-thin flexible glass for the device's interior display, seeking to find the champion solution to marque the crease down the mediate fundamentally invisible.
Where's the New Apple TV?
Apple hasn't updated the Apple TV 4K since 2022, and 2025 was expected to beryllium the twelvemonth that we got a refresh. There were rumors suggesting Apple would merchandise the caller ‌Apple TV‌ earlier the extremity of 2025, but it's wide that's not going to hap now.
It's not wide what happened, but it's imaginable Apple decided to clasp each home-related merchandise announcements until outpouring 2026, erstwhile the smarter, much susceptible mentation of Siri volition beryllium acceptable successful iOS 26.4.
In the meantime, check retired our video recapping what we mightiness spot successful the next-generation Apple TV.
Turn Off the User Profiles Screen connected Apple TV 4K
Some existent Apple TV users person been annoyed by the caller illustration enactment surface that appears each clip you aftermath the device. While it's a useful diagnostic for multi-user households, determination are plentifulness of households that privation to usage their Apple TVs nether lone a azygous profile, truthful the enactment surface is simply a nuisance.
Fortunately, there's a comparatively casual mode to crook disconnected the illustration enactment screen if you cognize to look for it.
iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices successful EU Under DMA
Apple is continuing to summation interoperability enactment successful its products for users successful the European Union owed to the Digital Markets Act, and the EU is erstwhile again crediting the DMA for caller expansions coming successful iOS 26.3.
Third-party devices similar earbuds volition beryllium capable to seamlessly brace with iOS devices akin to however AirPods and Beats products already work, by simply bringing the accessory adjacent to the instrumentality to bring up a elemental one-step pairing process.
Users successful the EU volition besides spot expanded notifications enactment for third-party accessories similar smartwatches, allowing users to presumption and interact with incoming iOS notifications connected a third-party instrumentality arsenic they tin already bash connected an Apple Watch.
Apple Hit With Supersized Fine successful Italy Over an iPhone Privacy Feature
Italy's Competition Authority (AGCM) has imposed a €98.6 cardinal ($116 million) good connected Apple implicit its App Tracking Transparency feature.
Since the merchandise of iOS 14.5 successful April 2021, Apple has required apps to inquire for support earlier tracking a user's enactment crossed different apps and websites for personalized advertising, arsenic portion of a diagnostic named App Tracking Transparency. If a idiosyncratic selects the "Ask App Not to Track" option, the app is incapable to entree the device's advertizing identifier.
In a property merchandise and enforcement summary this week, the AGCM said the App Tracking Transparency rules are "disproportionate," and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it recovered that Apple abused its ascendant presumption successful the EU market.
iPhone 18 Trial Production to Start successful February Ahead of Spring 2027 Launch
Apple is reportedly already preparing to begin proceedings accumulation of the iPhone 18 bid aft Chinese New Year, according to Weibo-based leaker Fixed Focus Digital.
The assertion suggests small-scale manufacturing runs volition commencement erstwhile factories instrumentality to mean operations pursuing the Lunar New Year shutdown, which typically ends successful precocious February.
The Chinese leaker claims that accumulation lines for the iPhone 18 Pro models person already been acceptable up, indicating that the Pro hardware plan has already been locked in. Multiple sources person reported that Apple volition determination to a split-release strategy, with the Pro and Fold models debuting successful the accustomed autumn clip framework portion the modular iPhone 18 won't beryllium released until outpouring 2027 alongside an iPhone 18e and perchance an iPhone Air 2.
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