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Selfie Fans, the New iPhone 17 Camera Is Optimized For You

If you use your iPhone to take selfies more than anything else -- and Apple says users took more than 500 billion selfies last year -- take heart. At Apple's fall iPhone event, held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, the company not only debuted the 5.6mm-thick iPhone 17 Air, but demonstrated that phone's new selfie camera The iPhone 17's center-stage front camera has the company's largest-ever front camera sensor, nearly twice the size of the last one, Apple said. In addition, the sensor

Apple Unveils Its Super-Slim iPhone 17 Air, at Just 5.6mm Thick

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its highly anticipated iPhone 17 Air, which starts at $999. The company debuted the 5.6mm-thick phone at its fall keynote at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. The phone has a 6.5-inch display and a titanium frame for a durable, lightweight build. Ceramic shield material covers the front and back. Like the baseline iPhone 17, the 17 Air has a 120Hz variable refresh rate, meaning it supports an always-on display, so you can see your notifications without waking the sc

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Apple Reveals New iPhone 17 Pro Colors, Including Cosmic Orange

Orange apples are here, Apple iPhones that is. During Apple's iPhone 17 event on Tuesday, it was revealed that the iPhone 17 Pro will be offered in silver, deep blue and one color that especially caught people's attention: cosmic orange. "It looks like a sports car on a phone," one CNET staffer quipped after the reveal. Apple/Screenshot by CNET The iPhone 17 Pro will have a new aluminum unibody and "the best camera system we've ever made," Apple claims. If you don't believe it, just take a pe

Apple announces $799 iPhone 17 with bigger 6.3-inch always-on ProMotion screen, A19 chip

CUPERTINO, Calif.—September means iPhones, and as expected, Apple has taken the wraps off a new iPhone 17 at its event today. The iPhone 17 will start at $799 for a 256GB model. Pre-orders start Friday, and the phones will be available on September 19. The updated OLED screen is the hero of the iPhone 17, bringing several features to the base iPhone that the iPhone Pro has enjoyed for years. The iPhone 17 steps up from a 6.1-inch to a 6.3-inch display, the same increase that came to the iPhone

Apple adds hypertension and sleep-quality monitoring to Watch Ultra 3, Series 11

At its fall product event today, Apple updated its line of smartwatches, including the introduction of features for monitoring blood pressure and analyzing the quality of your sleep. Apple Watch Series 11 Credit: Apple The Apple Watch Series 11. The Apple Watch Series 11. Credit: Apple The Apple Watch 11 is supposed to be able to alert users about "possible hypertension" by using data from an optical heart rate sensor "to analyze how a user’s blood vessels respond to the beats of the heart,"

Apple “started from scratch” to design all-new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple's basic iPhone 17 is the one most people will use, and the new iPhone Air will get attention for its thin design and novelty. But the iPhone Pro series is still the absolute best the company has to offer, and that continues to be true of the new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max that Apple announced today. The new phones start at $1,099 and $1,199 for the Pro and Pro Max, respectively, each with 256GB of storage. Preorders start this Friday, and the phones will be available on S

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iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and Apple’s other OS updates launch September 15

CUPERTINO, Calif.—If you’re buying one of the new iPhones or the other hardware that Apple announced today, your new devices will ship with Apple’s latest operating system updates already installed. But if you’re not looking to spend a bunch of money on Apple’s latest and greatest, the new updates will land on Apple’s other supported devices on September 15. Apple is shifting to a year-based numbering system starting this year, wiping away the previous grab bag of all-over-the-place version num

iPhone 17 Air is real—here’s what’s new in Apple’s extra-thin handset

An incoming new iPhone model called the iPhone Air has been one of the worst-kept secrets in tech lately, and now Apple has confirmed it at its annual iPhone reveal event. The 6.5-inch iPhone 17 Air combines the CPU and GPU of an iPhone Pro with the camera system of a regular iPhone, all in an extra-thin design (5.6 mm), with a treated titanium frame that is likely to appeal to style-conscious users and some business consumers. Like the iPhone 17, the iPhone 17 Air has a ProMotion display with

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SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

Just One Lonely Product Still Uses Apple’s Lightning Connector—Can You Guess Which One?

While the world focuses on Apple’s latest slew of new products, we are taking a moment for the last bastion of Apple’s proprietary past—the one remaining product with a Lightning connector that, somehow, Apple still sells. We have previously lamented Apple's drawn-out transition to USB-C. It’s been far from quick and far from straightforward, leaving a mess of dongles and confusion in its wake. It was last year, at its September 2024 “Glowtime” event, that Apple made the move to change that, t

At the Abundance conference, right-wing anti-regulation ideals were in abundance

Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and author of Regulator , covering the second Trump administration, political influencers, tech lobbying and Big Tech vs. Big Government. Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you’re here via a link and would like to read more, The Verge is running a very good subscription sale this month: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. That’s right: you can read about political horseshoe theory in action AND get our live cove

Apple reveals iPadOS 26 release date

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s major iPadOS 26 update comes out on September 15th, offering a new windowing system that will change the way you use the tablet. The company announced the news during its iPhone 17 launch event, just a few months after launching it in beta. The latest v

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Apple’s macOS Tahoe 26 update releases September 15th

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s big, Liquid Glass-ified update for macOS is coming out of beta and finally launching September 15th. First announced at WWDC 2025 and put through the usual rounds of developer and public betas, macOS Tahoe is coming to all users with compati

iPhone Air hands-on

Apple just announced the iPhone Air, which, as you might guess by the name, is something Apple is marketing as extremely thin and light. It’s 5.6mm thin and has a ProMotion display, one camera, Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2 glass on both sides, and an A19 Pro chip. But what does it actually feel like to hold? I (Allison) got to actually pick up the phone at Apple’s launch event today, and it sure is light. The profile is as slim as it looks in photos, and it has more rounded edges reminiscent of pre

Our first look at the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max

There were two surprises for me when I picked up the iPhone 17 Pro. For one, the colors are bold — a nice change of pace from last year’s barely-there pales. But the bigger surprise is just how much has changed about the back of the phone. By all accounts, this still feels like an iPhone, with its soft matte aluminum frame. But the polished camera bar — always an underemphasized design element — now stretches across the back. And a detail I missed during the keynote is how the polished glass po

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Apple’s using more recycled materials in its iPhones and watches

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It’s using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a w

The eight biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone Air event

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple just wrapped its extensive fall hardware keynote, which featured the marquee announcement of the thin iPhone Air, along with other iPhone 17 models, plus a suite of new Apple Watch wearables, and the new AirPods Pro 3 — phew, that was a lot. Al

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Hands-on with all the new Apple Watches Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3

Following Apple’s “Awe dropping” event today, we’ve been able to try out all the new Apple Watch models announced today including the Series 11, the Ultra 3, and the refreshes SE 3. The entry-level Apple Watch SE was last updated in 2022 with the second-generation model, but the new SE 3, which starts at $249 for a 40 millimeter model, has gained some features from older Apple Watch models released since the SE 2’s debut, as well as the new Ultra 3 and Series 11 announced today. It will support

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Apple launches iPhone 17 Pro with major camera upgrades

Apple launched the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max today with a new design and an upgraded camera system. The devices are powered by the new A19 Pro chipset and have a larger battery, Apple said. Plus, it noted that eSIM-only models will have a slightly larger battery as compared to Pro models with physical SIMs. The new Pro phones have an aluminium unibody instead of the titanium used in the previous year’s iPhone. The company said it designed a new vapor chamber thermal system along

Apple debuts the $999 ultra-thin iPhone Air

Move over, iPhone Plus, here comes your super-slim replacement: the iPhone Air. During Apple’s iPhone event on Tuesday, the company unveiled the iPhone Air, its thinnest and lightest model to date. This replaces the Plus model in the company’s 2025 lineup, following the underperformance of the iPhone 16 Plus last year, based on data from research firm DSCC. The star of today’s event draws inspiration from Apple’s MacBook Air strategy, which debuted in 2008 as the thinnest laptop available, pos

Apple’s new iPhone 17 devices don’t have an AI-powered Siri yet. It doesn’t matter.

At yet another splashy event, Apple on Tuesday introduced its latest lineup of iPhones: the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and a new slimmer version dubbed the iPhone Air. The “Air” branding is meant to bring to mind other lightweight — and sometimes less expensive — Apple products like the MacBook Air and iPad Air. But it also recalls a time when smartphone makers were chasing an ever-thinner phone. In the AI era, however, it’s not necessarily the device’s size that matters; it’s what the softw

Wildcard suggestion of ‘iPhone Air’ name [Update: Confirmed]

Just hours ahead of the official announcement, a leaker has suggested that the iPhone 17 Air may instead simply be named the iPhone Air. [Update: Confirmed] They show a photo of what is claimed to be a Chinese warranty leaflet for the phone showing this name. Although it may well be fake, there is one reason to give it perhaps a little credence … We’re expecting Apple to announce four iPhones today: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 Air iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17 Pro Max However, leaker DuanRui shows what

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Apple unveils AirPods Pro 3: new design, better battery life, heart rate monitor

Today during its ‘Awe dropping’ event, Apple unveiled the next generation of its highly successful AirPods Pro line. Here’s everything you should know about AirPods Pro 3. Apple announces AirPods Pro 3 with pre-orders starting today, shipping September 19 Today as the first announcement during its big iPhone 17 event, Apple introduced the next generation of AirPods Pro: AirPods Pro 3. AirPods Pro 3 include new features like: New design with smaller earbuds with smaller earbuds Improved spat

Apple brings live translation feature to AirPods Pro

Apple today announced the new AirPods Pro 3, the next-generation of AirPods hardware. One of the big new software features is Live Translation. By tapping on the stems of both buds, AirPods enter a new translation mode which cancels out background noise and listens in to your conversations. When it hears a foreign language it can understand, you hear the translated version spoken back to you through your AirPods. Apple said the new Live Translation feature is powered by Apple Intelligence, usi

Apple Watch Series 11 officially unveiled: Hypertension detection, 2x scratch resistance, larger battery, more

Today, Apple announced its latest generation Apple Watch: the Apple Watch Series 11. It includes a new S11 chipset, 5G support, double the scratch resistance, a new Hypertension detection feature, and more. It will be available to order this Friday. Apple Watch Series 11 This year’s new Apple Watch is incredibly similar to last year’s Apple Watch Series 10, with a few modest upgrades. It encompasses the same thinner design, and has a new lineup of colors: Jet Black, Silver, Rose Gold, and Spac

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Apple Watch SE 3 announced, with S10 chip and always-on display

The Apple Watch SE 3 has been announced alongside the Series 11 and Ultra 3. The SE was long due an update after getting a relatively modest refresh back in 2022, in which the design was unchanged, although a new back case did make it slightly lighter than the original … There had been mixed reports about whether or not Apple would announce a third-gen model of its lowest cost Watch at the iPhone 17 event, but a leaker with an excellent track record said yesterday that it was definitely coming

Apple Watch Ultra 3 officially unveiled: larger display, 5G and satellite connectivity, 42-hour battery

Apple Watch Ultra 3 is official. Headlining features include a larger and brighter display, 42-hour battery life, and satellite connectivity. Like the new Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3 supports 5G, detection of possible hypertension, sleep score analysis, and new Flow and Exactograph watch faces. Ultra 3 also includes an Ultra-exclusive Waypoint watch face. Satellite connectivity is only offered on the Ultra 3. Emergency SOS is available for free for two years. Messages and Find M

Apple unveils iPhone 17: 120 FPS display, A19 chip, upgraded camera

Apple today announced its next generation lineup of iPhone, starting with the entry-level iPhone 17. iPhone 17 features an upgraded display, better front and rear cameras, and more enhancements. The new iPhone 17 has a larger 6.3-inch display, with ProMotion high-refresh rate support for the first time. It also supports always-on mode to show your lock screen in a dimmed state. The iPhone 17 is also powered by the brand new A19 chip for faster CPU and GPU performance. Here’s more new features …

Apple announces iOS 26 release date: September 15

It’s one of the biggest days of Apple’s year, with the company’s ‘Awe dropping’ event headlined by the iPhone 17 lineup and other new hardware. On the software front, we got some good news too: iOS 26 is coming very soon. iOS 26 was first unveiled back in June at WWDC. Since then, the forthcoming software update has been in beta testing. After three months in beta, Apple is nearly ready to ship iOS 26 to all users. iOS 26 will officially release on Monday, September 15. New features include

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iPadOS 26 is coming to your iPad on September 15

Apple’s big ‘Awe dropping’ event was heavy on hardware announcements, but new software got release dates too, including iPadOS 26 which is coming very soon. The software update that iPad users have wanted for years is almost here, Apple has announced. iPadOS 26’s release date is set for Monday, September 15. New features are heavily skewed toward productivity improvements, such as the Mac-like windowing system, upgraded dock, menu bar, new cursor, and more. There’s also a Liquid Glass redesig