Appleosophy

Apple has increased the prices across the entire iPhone lineup in Japan, as spotted by the Spanish blog iPhoneros.

Today, Apple has increased the price of Apple Music along with some Apple One subscription bundles. This follows the price increases for AppleCare+ plans for Macs and iPads.

If you think Apple’s recent price hikes for Macs and iPads are already a tough pill to swallow, some AppleCare+ subscription plans have also taken a hit. As reported by Bloomberg, AppleCare+ subscriptions are now being pricier, with monthly plans being $0.50 more expensive and annual plans seeing a $5 price increase in the U.S. Keep in mind that these pricing adjustments only affect new customers, which means current customers who have subscribed to AppleCare+ before today will not be affected.

Apple started offering certified refurbished models of the iPad mini (A17 Pro), which was introduced back in October 2024, so it was almost two years before we could see those smaller tablets make their way to Apple’s Certified Refurbished store at a potentially lower price. However, that addition to the Refurbished Store may come at a bad time, and here’s why. When Apple updated the iPad mini with the A17 Pro chip, it started at $499 with 128GB of storage.

Finally, after several weeks of waiting, Apple’s annual Back-to-School promotion is now live in the United States, Canada, and Mexico after the earlier rollouts in the Far East. Last year’s promotion went live on June 17, 2025, and ended on September 30, 2025, so it was just a bit of a month-long wait.

Yesterday, the European Commission officially added new exemptions to its Batteries Regulation. With these exemptions, this means that both the Apple Watch and the AirPods may continue to feature non-removable batteries. The iPhone has already been exempt from the EU’s regulations, and this is another win for Apple too, for a huge reason. If we take a look at the Apple Watch, Apple’s smartwatch has always been designed to be both splash- and water-resistant.

While we’re still waiting for Apple’s annual Back-to-School promotion to go live in the United States, that special promotion has started to go live in many countries in the Far East. This includes China India Malaysia The Philippines Singapore Taiwan Thailand Vietnam As part of this promotion, similar to what we had last year, college students and educational students could get an additional accessory for free when they purchase an eligible Mac or iPad model.

While the iPhone 18 Pro models and the highly anticipated “iPhone Ultra” are just around the corner, we still have a lot more products to look forward to in the coming years, particularly the 20th-anniversary edition of the iPhone, and according to a leaker known as “Fixed Focus Digital”, they claimed on Weibo that factories have now been prepared to manufacture what would be the biggest redesign since the iPhone X back in 2017 – the tenth anniversary since the iPhone launched.

You know that seamless pairing that both Apple Watch and AirPods models have been well known for? It looks like Apple is planning to bring that magic to even more third-party accessories in the not-too-distant future, including Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta glasses and Quest headsets, as spotted by Apple’s EU Interoperability Request page.

Apple has started rolling out the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, and watchOS 27. These updates come one week after the release of the third developer beta software for these versions. The said updates include improvements to Liquid Glass, a new Siri AI, new Screen Time options, and more, announced at WWDC held last month.