📈 Apple CEO Tim Cook sells $50.2 million worth of Apple stock

🧾 Traditionally in October, Apple's CEO sells some portion of the company's stock. Last week, he was credited with 219,502 shares of Apple stock as a performance bonus on top of his salary, which Cook also receives regularly. The other day it became known that Tim cashed in 223,986 Apple shares worth $50,276,076 (excluding taxes), the report on the procedure has already been published by United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

💰 At the same time, the head of Apple still has a lot of shares in his portfolio, totaling more than $500 million. Both grants and additional interest accrued to him on the results of the fiscal year can be up to 200% of the number of shares that were received in the year.

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🆕 “Software Update”

⚙️ Apple releases long-awaited updates with bug fixes to the public:

• iOS 📱.0.1 (22A3370)
• iPadOS ☁️.0.1 (22A3370)
• macOS Sequoia 👨‍🏫.0.1 (24A348)
• watchOS 🚙.0.1 (22R361)
• visionOS 🍏.0.1 (22N342)

🔎 Internally, the following fixes:

• Touch screen may be temporarily unresponsive in certain circumstances on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models.
• Camera may freeze when recording macro mode video on the Ultra Wide camera in 4K with HDR turned off on iPhone 16 Pro models.
• Messages may unexpectedly quit when replying to a message with a shared Apple Watch face.
• Performance may be impacted due to an issue with memory allocation on some iPhone models.
• The iPad Pro on the M4 chip could fail to turn on after an update or discharge.
• The 4th generation AirPods could have given an error when first paired with the devices.
• The Apple Watch could and have experienced battery issues and display false positives.
• The Music app could have shut down unexpectedly and restarted the watch.
• YouTube could slow down Safari in visionOS.
• Google Chrome might not have matched the first time you run it on macOS.
• Improved compatibility with third-party security apps for macOS.

💬 “Update Now” or “Update Tonight” or wait?

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🎧 AirPods 4's repairability is rated 0 out of 10 on iFixit's scale

📱 Experts from iFixit channel have taken apart the new AirPods 4 and AirPods Max. According to their findings, the AirPods 4 still has a lot of glue and too dense arrangement of parts inside, while the AirPods Max differ only in the charging port.

🤔 The only difference between the AirPods 4 with and without noise canceling is the more powerful microphone. There are no other internal differences between AirPods 3 and AirPods 4 other than the Type-C port.

🎧 The AirPods Max in the new colors are also identical to the older version, and the only difference is the USB-C port.

📊 AirPods 4's repairability is rated 0 out of 10 on the iFixit scale, while AirPods Max is rated 6 out of 10.

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📱 Apple has patented a guest mode for the iPhone

📰 TheMacObserver reports that users will be able to hand over their iPhone to another person by putting it in “guest” mode so they don't have to worry about their sensitive data.

⚙️ The feature involves flexible customization of apps, photos, notes and other files that will be available in this mode. Also, the owner will be able to change access settings remotely by logging into his account from another iPhone or iPad.

📆 From the patent to the realization of the function can take a long time, so the innovation should not be expected in the near future. Meanwhile, the function of adding users on iPadOS is still expected.

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📸 New Apple commercial about Camera Control in iPhone 16 Pro!

💬 Those who have already upgraded, how often do you use the new button?

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📱 The rumored update to the iPhone SE is getting closer to production

🔜 It will probably be joined by the new iPad Air in early 2025. After the release of the iPhone 16, the rumor mill's attention now turns to the iPhone SE. The model that hasn't been updated since its March 2022 third-gen release is due an upgrade, which is believed to happen early in 2025.

📱 The model is likely to include a lot of changes: it could be based on the iPhone 14's design, the display could finally make the upgrade to OLED instead of LCD, with a 6.1-inch edge-to-edge screen expected. It may also use a newer processor like the A18, in order to run Apple Intelligence.

📲 An update to the 11-inch and 13-inch iPads Air are on the cards, albeit one involving "internal improvements." It's not clear what chips the iPad Air will use, but they say that new accessories will be inbound. This includes a new keyboard that may gain some elements from the updated iPad Pro Magic Keyboard.

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📆 Apple reportedly releasing iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence features on October 28

📰 According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to release iOS 18.1 to the public on October 28th, which will include some of the first Apple Intelligence features.

👍 Upon installing the update, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 users will be able to try out the following features:
・Writing Tools
・New Siri UI (though the truly new experience won’t be out until later)
・Notification Summaries
・Memory Creation in Photos
・Clean Up in Photos
・Intelligent Breakthrough with Notifications

📆 Some of the more appealing features are still ahead, and will slowly roll out between now and the spring:

・October: iOS 18.1, with the features listed above
・December: iOS 18.2, with ChatGPT support, Genmoji, and Image Playground
・Early 2025: iOS 18.3 or iOS 18.4 with new Siri rollout

🤞 Hopefully, by the time the new iPhone SE 4 launches, all of the Apple Intelligence features will be fully rolled out.

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🔜 The new M4-based Macs and iPad mini 7 will launch as early as November 1

🍎 Apple will introduce six new devices:

・14-inch MacBook Pro on the base M4
・MacBook Pro on the M4 Pro and M4 Max with 14- and 16-inch displays
・24-inch iMac on the M4
・The all-new Mac mini on the M4 and M4 Pro
・Updated iPad mini

📰 According to Bloomberg the devices will go on sale as early as November 1. This means that the presentation (if it takes place) will take place between October 19 and 22 (Apple usually holds presentations on Tuesdays, so October 19 can be expected).

🫥 It's also reported that Apple will continue to spread the device refresh cycle over a period of every few years to more models, as it already does with some iPads and the Apple Watch. Although right now Apple updates some Mac models even more frequently than once a year (for example, the MacBook Pro based on the M3 Pro/M3 Max came out just 9 months after the models based on the M2 Pro/M2 Max). The iPhone will remain one of the few devices that will continue to be updated annually.

📆 It may take Apple a longer lead time to develop new hardware, focusing on the software side, including introducing new chips for Apple Intelligence.

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