👂 New data about the foldable iPhone

📱 According to Chinese analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Foxconn is expected to officially launch the development of the assembly project in late 2025. At this point, many component specifications (including the hinge) have yet to be approved.

📆 The foldable display is the only component that has approved specs. They will be supplied by Samsung Display in quantities of 7-8 million panels. However, although the panels will begin to be delivered this year, the device itself will not be assembled in full and in large-scale volumes until 2026.

🧮 Ming-Chi Kuo claims that Apple has placed an order for the assembly of 15-20 million folding iPhones for the next 2-3 year cycle, not just for 2026. That is, the company predicts a relatively small demand for the novelty and therefore is already calculating delivery plans for 2027 and 2028. The probable reason is its high price and correspondingly low demand. Although these plans could still change.

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💻 Apple had told students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’...

...but later removed the video from YouTube. It’s not clear why.

📰 The seven-minute video was posted to Apple’s YouTube channel. It featured incoming college students practicing how to pitch their parents on getting them a Mac instead of a PC for college.

The presenter in the video:

Can’t put a price on a healthy spine. One of the main factors affecting spine health in teens is, you guessed it, school bag weight. And the MacBook Air only weighs 2.7 pounds. Hey, maybe your parents don’t care about your spine. I doubt that, right?

And:

So to wrap things up, you can either buy a MacBook Air for $899, or you can buy a PC, but you also have to buy antivirus software, a manual backup software, a protective case, a guard dog to protect it from your roommate, an external power bank…I mean, it’s insane.

😁 Apple has gone a step further than just the video, however. You can head to its website today to download a “Parent Presentation” that highlights “45 undeniable reasons why a Mac is essential for college.”

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🎵 Music summaries will become monthly

📰 Starting with iOS 26, the Music app will finally feature Apple Music Replay statistics with your monthly and yearly song listening summaries

👍 Previously, the full version of the summary was only available in the web version, but now it has been integrated into the Music app.

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🧐 Apple was interested in buying AI search startup Perplexity

📰 Bloomberg reports that Apple executives were considering acquiring startup Perplexity to catch up on lost AI momentum. The new search could become the main replacement for Google amid a possible partnership breakup with Google.

📱 According to the source, a potential merger with Perplexity could be Apple's strategic response to a possible breakup of its search agreement with Google - the same contract that has Google as the default on iPhones. In April 2025, the U.S. Justice Department demanded that such arrangements be canceled, deeming them in violation of antitrust laws.

😶 Perplexity responded to the publications by saying it knew nothing about the negotiations with Apple. There was no comment from Apple itself either.

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👝 iPhone users aren't happy about Apple promoting 'F1 Movie' with Wallet app notification

Sometimes, indeed, Apple's ads for movies and TV series are so aggressive that it feels like you're literally being “forced” to watch - as was the case with their “Severance” series.

📰 Apple sent out an ad to some iPhone users in the form of a Wallet app push notification – movie ticket company Fandango is offering on a pair of tickets to Apple's new film "F1: The Movie."

🤬 iPhone users who received the notifications have complained about it across Reddit, 𝕏, and other online discussion platforms. Some people are especially upset about receiving a push notification ad through the Wallet app because it is a very important app for personal finances, so simply turning off notifications for the entire app is not a feasible solution.

ℹ️ iOS 26 beta adds an "Offers & Promotions" toggle to the Wallet app, allowing users to opt in or out of receiving special offers and discounts available from Apple and its unspecified partners. However, Apple sent out to the push notification ad to iPhone users on iOS 18 too, and those users seemingly did not explicitly opt in to receive such an ad. For that reason, some people are disappointed in Apple.

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👀 The first “live” photos of the iPhone 17 Pro have appeared

📱 Insider Majin Bu showed how the smartphone looks in hand.

🔎 The camera unit now occupies the entire width of the rear panel. It seems that the new design looked worse on the renders.

🔜 Officially the novelty will be shown in the fall. Not long to wait.

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📸 Slowly but surely

Users of the 🍏 26 beta have discovered a new notification in the operating system: “Clean Back Camera” – the system itself determines when the lens is dirty.

Meanwhile, Android smartphone users, who have had this feature for 10 years: 🗿

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🕙 A former Apple engineer explains why the Snooze button on Clock is so big and the Stop button is tiny

😴 At Apple, we found that when both buttons are the same size, people were 30% more likely to oversleep. During testing, we had a version of Clock that logged all touch gestures into a heat map.

🔎 It was recording where our sleepy hands were smacking around on the screen in order to see how accurate we were in turning off the alarms. It turns out we are pretty shit at it.

👍 Snoozing an alarm means you get another chance to try waking up again in a few minutes so it’s low risk. By making the button the stop button such a small hit target, it ensures you’re awake enough to actually stop it.

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📰 The Apple Sports app has been updated to support tennis tournaments

🎾 Apple Sports now displays tennis match results in real time, and in Live Activities mode on the iPhone lock screen. The update was released just in time for the start of Wimbledon – tables, rankings and the full schedule of matches have already been prepared.

🅰️ Apple Sports is available in App Store, but not in all regions.

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📰 Apple wants to create its own movie theater distribution agency

🏎 Amid the high-profile launch of Apple Original Films' “F1,” the company is considering creating its own distribution arm, the WSJ reports.

🧮 Right now, Apple doesn't distribute movies directly. That's delegated to its big movie partner Warner Bros. Pictures, who manage the global release of movies, including “F1.” However, their share of revenue increases in proportion to total ticket sales and Apple wants to earn more. To do so and are looking at ways to operate without any restrictions on their own.

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🥽 Have we forgotten about Vision Pro?

Apple is still working on them!

📆 Ming-Chi Kuo shared his data with a plan for 2025–2028 for Apple Vision and smart glasses. According to him, Apple will not release any completely new head-mounted devices in 2026, as several products are planned for 2027.

👓 Apple sees head-mounted devices as the next big trend in electronics. The company is currently developing at least seven projects, including three Apple Vision series products and four smart glasses options. Five of these products have confirmed development timelines, while two remain unknown.

I believe—and I doubt anyone would disagree—that Apple could build the best Meta Ray-Ban–like smart glasses on the market. Yet its decision-making in this area has been surprisingly slow. Putting AI aside for a moment, this category could cannibalize at least some AirPods demand, directly impacting Apple’s hardware business. Still, the company has remained conspicuously inactive.

Apple has historically excelled at creating entirely new product categories and courageously cannibalizing its own products. To describe an Apple product as "Ray-Ban-like smart glasses" seems almost like an insult to a company of Apple's stature. Yet ironically, this remains the most objective way to describe the current state of the industry.

But better late than never. Moreover, Apple's renewed push for hardware innovation is undoubtedly good news for the supply chain.

– Ming-Chi Kuo.

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🤪 Siri – Apple's unfortunate 'child'

📰 Apple is considering using AI technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, potentially sidelining its own in-house models.

🧐 The company has talked with both Anthropic and OpenAI about using their large language models for Siri, and has asked them to train versions of their models that could run on Apple's cloud infrastructure for testing.

🤔 If Apple moves forward with using third-party models, it would represent a significant reversal and an acknowledgment that the company is struggling to compete in generative AI, and could allow Apple to offer Siri features on par with AI assistants on Android phones.

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⏬️ How to use the Camera Control on iPhone 16 effectively

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