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Apple has begun accepting app submissions built with the iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 SDKs ahead of their September 14 launch. Developers can now download the Xcode 27 Release Candidate to prepare their apps for approval before the public rollout.
Apple continues to frame its artificial intelligence efforts around everyday usefulness rather than grand claims of achieving superhuman or godlike machine intelligence. This contrasts with rivals who often emphasize dramatic warnings or promises about AI's transformative, even existential, power.
Apple TV released a trailer for The Last First: Winter K2, a documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev arriving on the service October 2. The film centers on a dangerous 2021 winter expedition to summit K2, following climbers John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Ali and Sajid Sadpara as they compete alongside influencers, commercial clients and a Nepalese team.
WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast examines a viral resignation from an Anthropic researcher who argued AI could plausibly cause human extinction within ten years. The episode also covers Apple's newly unveiled $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo, privacy concerns around 'always listening' Apple Watch features, and a WIRED investigation into flawed Census Bureau data cited by the Trump administration.
Apple unveiled the AirPods 5 lineup alongside its new iPhones, splitting it into a $129 standard model and a $149 version with a wireless charging case, swipe-based volume gestures, and Live Translation. Both versions now include active noise cancellation and IP57 water resistance, features previously reserved for pricier AirPods.
TrendForce projects Apple will ship 5 million units of its newly announced iPhone Duo foldable in 2026, giving it nearly a quarter of the global foldable smartphone market. That would help offset a broader slump in the category, with non-Apple Android foldable shipments expected to fall more than 20% year-over-year even as total foldable shipments edge up slightly to about 20.2 million units.
At Apple's 'Surprise and shine' event, new CEO John Ternus unveiled Audio Intelligence, an AI feature for recent Apple Watches and iPhones that transcribes and summarizes conversations, including a 'Live Rewind' that recalls the last 15 seconds of speech and a 'Siri Recap' that ambiently logs chats when enabled. Apple says the feature is encrypted and does not store raw audio, though it functions much like ambient-recording wearables from startups such as Plaud and Looki.
Two hobbyists at the Recurse Center, working around the same time Apple unveiled its own Reference Image proof-of-capture system, built a competing open-source camera using a Raspberry Pi Zero, a crypto chip, and a shutter button. Instead of storing signatures in metadata, which gets stripped when images are shared, their system embeds a signed perceptual hash directly into the pixels using frequency-domain steganography that survives compression like WhatsApp resizing.
Apple released a condensed 95-second highlight video summarizing its 'Surprise and Shine' event, which ran nearly 80 minutes and introduced the foldable iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, and AirPods 5 with Active Noise Cancellation. Alongside the short recap, Apple posted individual segment videos for each product announcement on its YouTube channel.
Ian Rogers, who previously built Beats Music, helped launch Apple Music, and later worked at LVMH, has taken on the role of chief human agency officer at Ledger, a crypto security startup valued at $1.5 billion. Ledger uses secure hardware chips, similar to those found in credit cards, to protect digital assets like Bitcoin from theft or loss. Rogers is now working remotely from rural Italy, shaping the company's security and AI strategy.
Apple introduced AppleCare One Family, a new device protection plan launching September 14 that covers unlimited Apple devices for up to six people under one household for a flat $50 monthly fee. The plan includes AppleCare Plus perks such as unlimited accidental damage repairs, 24/7 expert support, and up to two theft or loss claims annually for iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches. It covers nearly all Apple hardware, including Macs, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV, and Vision Pro.
Following this week's iPhone Duo reveal, Apple is said to be preparing an October rollout that includes three new Macs—among them a redesigned touchscreen MacBook Pro/Ultra with OLED, an updated M6 MacBook Pro, and an M6 iMac. The lineup is also expected to bring Siri-powered Apple Home upgrades, plus a new OLED iPad mini and possibly an updated base iPad.