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Searching an old WhatsApp thread used to mean three separate taps before you even got to type anything. That’s changing now. WABetaInfo confirms the app has started rolling out its in-chat search button on iOS after a few weeks sitting in beta. The old method went like this: tap the contact name up top, dig through the chat info screen for the search option, then get bounced back into the conversation to finally enter what you were looking for. Nobody loved that flow.

Apple has stopped signing iOS 26.6.2, which was released earlier this month, and it means that users who are on iOS 27 won’t be able to downgrade back to iOS 26 anymore, as noted by Aaron Perris from MacRumors. Apple does allow downgrades for a short period of time after releasing a new version via Finder on Mac or the Apple Devices app on Windows, which checks the approval status of the software on Apple’s servers.

$250 million. That’s what Apple agreed to pay back in May to settle a lawsuit over Siri’s delayed launch, and now the settlement website where you actually collect your share just went live. We covered this settlement earlier when Apple first confirmed the payout schedule, and now the actual claims process has officially opened. Eligible iPhone owners can file a claim starting tomorrow, September 21, with a window running all the way through December 21.

The wireless earbuds market barely moved this spring. Apple did, though, just a little. Fresh numbers from Omdia show Apple shipped 16.8 million true wireless stereo devices in the second quarter of 2026, up 1.2% from a year earlier, while the overall market actually shrank 0.7% during that same stretch. Image: Omdia That gap matters more than the raw percentages suggest. Apple now controls 20.5% of the entire TWS market, roughly double Xiaomi’s second-place share of 10.4%.

Officially, Apple’s answer is no. As per the report from John Gruber at Daring Fireball, Apple confirmed that iPhone 17 Pro cases aren’t technically compatible with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, and the reverse doesn’t work either, at least according to the company itself. The culprit is tiny. Apple made the camera plateau on the new Pro models just slightly thicker this generation, one-tenth of a millimeter thicker, to be exact. Gruber measured it at 11.5mm versus 11.4mm on last year’s models.

iOS 27 landed this week carrying a real overhaul to Apple Intelligence, not just a minor update. Siri AI alone represents a massive leap over what came before, capable enough that 9to5Mac recently compiled a list running past 100 different tasks it can now handle. Given how ambitious these new features are, it’s honestly a little surprising most iPhones didn’t need any extra storage at all to run them. That 8GB baseline held steady for the majority of devices. Eight gigabytes used to cover it.

There’s a new step involved anytime an iPhone 18 Pro Max needs to travel somewhere in a box. Its battery crosses the 20 watt-hour threshold, and that number triggers extra shipping rules most iPhones never have to deal with.

The iPhone 18 Pro models have been out for a day, but there is probably one “small” caveat that you may need to reconsider if you’re planning to upgrade to an iPhone 18 Pro. According to Tech Actually (@techactually on X), the source indicates that the 1TB model uses QLC instead of TLC. What does this mean?

Last week, on September 9, Apple introduced its latest iPhone models: the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the iPhone Duo. Just like clockwork, Apple discontinued the preceding iPhone 17 Pro models; however, there was also one discontinuation some of us may have overlooked. In fact, almost none of the sources reported this discontinuation other than The Mac Observer.

Last week was a huge one for Apple with a plethora of exciting new products, so let’s break down everything Apple launched today. iPhone 18 Pro The first major new product that Apple announced was the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. While the design remains largely similar to their predecessors, the iPhone 18 Pro models made several refinements internally.