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Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro lineup will pack big camera upgrades, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Pro Max will even get a variable-aperture lens for depth-of-field control and better low-light images. For better heat dissipation, Apple will seemingly add vapor chamber cooling to the new iPhones. No major design changes for iPhone 18 Pro Apple will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later today at its “Surprise and shine” event.

Apple’s foldable iPhone could arrive as the iPhone Duo, with a starting price of $2,000, according to a new Bloomberg report. And its pricing will supposedly start at $2,000. If you opt for the higher storage model, you will apparently have to pay nearly $3,000. Apple could give iPhone Duo some iPad superpowers While a lot about the foldable iPhone is already known, its marketing name and pricing are still a mystery.

When Apple released the cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro last year, it did the unthinkable: It made the color orange both cool and commonplace. Since then, a growing number of tech companies have embraced orange, producing a wide range of iPhone accessories and other gear in the surprisingly bold color. Now, the only question is, can Apple do it again … this time with dark cherry?

The watchOS 27 Readiness app could be Apple’s most interesting new feature. It’s still hiding in unreleased beta code, with no interface in sight. But clues suggest it could reshape how your wrist tracks recovery. The watchOS 27 Readiness app is just one of the many finds recently pulled from the software’s code. Beta references also point toward deeper strength-training data and a possible storage bump for future models.

A leak shows off several camera-focused features that Apple will introduce with iOS 27 later this week. This includes exposure scopes, with waveform and histogram displays to monitor exposure easily. Apple will also presumably add focus peaking support to the iPhone’s stock Camera app. Pro camera tools could come to your iPhone Apple already showed off some Camera app-related improvements in iOS 27 at WWDC26.

Apple could finally be making a game controller. Buried code in a recent macOS beta points to two unreleased designs, and they seem to be built for very different kinds of players. The references showed up in a test build of macOS Tahoe 26.7 before Apple pulled them. One points to a bare-bones wired controller. The other looks like a full-featured wireless model packed with sensors no third-party controller offers on the Mac today. The code names are just as unglamorous as it gets: T6502 and T1057.

TL;DR: This refurbished 2024 iPad mini 7 is on sale for $464.99 (reg. $599) and features an A17 Pro chip, 128GB of storage, Apple Intelligence support, Wi-Fi 6E and an 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display. The iPad mini has always occupied an interesting spot in Apple’s lineup: bigger than your iPhone, considerably easier to carry around than a full-size tablet and powerful enough to be more than another screen for streaming. For just $464.99 (reg.

TL;DR: A grade “B” refurbished 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro (2021, 5th Gen) with the M1 chip and 128GB of storage is on sale for $459.99 (regularly $650), a 29% discount. A high-end tablet with pro-level power usually costs well over $1,000 once you buy enough storage to actually use it for real work. A 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro (2021, 5th Gen), refurbished and graded B for light cosmetic wear, is on sale for $459.99 (regularly $650), backed by a 30-day aftermarket parts and labor warranty.

Want an iPad mini for less? For just $464.99, you can snag this refurbished iPad mini 7, the 2024 model that packs Apple’s A17 Pro chip into a compact package. It comes with 128GB of storage and support for Apple Intelligence. And at this price, it won’t gut your bank account.

BERLIN – With iPhones finally supporting 25W wireless charging, a wave of 25W magnetic power banks has hit the market. However, they also bring on one of wireless charging’s oldest problems: heat. Sustained 25W power transfer makes a power bank uncomfortably hot. At IFA 2026, major iPhone accessory makers unveiled an unlikely solution: power banks with built-in cooling systems designed to tame the heat.