Over the past ten years, Apple’s iPhone has become the company’s most valuable —and recently, somewhat volatile— asset. Since its introduction in 2007, the iPhone helped to jumpstart the smartphone revolution, and with it came some big innovations. The App Store, touchscreen gaming, the mass adoption of social media, and protecting user data with biometrics. Its product lineup is enmeshed in Apple’s ecosystem, and the impact that it continues to have around the globe is vast.
I was reminded this morning that Apple added a new “Music Haptics” accessibility feature to iOS 18, which I hadn’t actually tried out yet, that subtly vibrates along to songs for those affected by hearing loss to feel.
Putting it on a box is fun!
Last month, Apple announced an update for the Sports app that adds Live Activities support to help you follow games on the lock screen of your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Now, it has been released in the App Store just ahead of the launch of iOS 18 and watchOS 11, and it includes a new drop-down menu and search setup to switch between leagues and teams.
Before you buy something like Anker’s new MagGo SD card reader to take advantage of that high-fps video capture on the iPhone 16 Pro, go read PetaPixel’s warning about product marketing and the limits of SD cards.
PetaPixel today confirmed that the iPhone can technically shoot 4K at 30 frames per second (FPS) in ProRes Log to a UHS-II SD card, but attempting to choose a higher frame rate would guarantee dropped frames.
Like with Apple’s newest iPads, Apple won’t include Apple logo stickers in the boxes of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, 9to5Mac reports. You can apparently ask for a sticker when purchasing an iPhone 16 at an Apple Store, though.
Apple updated its $19 Polishing Cloth compatibility list this week with a few new items:
Still conspicuously missing is the Vision Pro, which ships with the cloth for free. (In my extensive testing, it seems to work as expected.)
Apple published a giant PDF document that’s just a simple list, with brief descriptions, of all the new features coming to iOS 18 over the next several months.
As MacRumors notes, it’s more than 250 items long, so dig in, nerds — I know I will.
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If you think Apple’s new iPhone lineup needs even more buttons, on October 7th you can preorder iPhone 16 versions of Clicks’ BlackBerry-like keyboard case, with shipping expected in November.
The cases will be available in three colors: surf, spice, and onyx, and will be $139 for the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, or $159 for the iPhone 16 Plus and 16 Pro Max.
We’ve just published our video about going hands-on with the new iPhone 16 Pro. I always look forward to these, and not just because I work for The Verge; as someone covering the event remotely, it’s nice to see what the new iPhones look like outside of Apple’s glitzy presentations.
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There won’t be any Apple Intelligence image-generating features in iOS 18.1 when it releases in October, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
But Apple plans to include its Image Playground and Genmoji features in iOS 18.2, he writes. Historically, those updates have come around mid-December, so perhaps we’ll be slinging holiday-themed “emoji” at each other soon enough.
