This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: the possible end of the Mac Pro, iPhone Fold’s battery capacity, and more powerful iPhone cases. Here are this week’s Apple rumors.
No new Mac Pro expected in 2026, and possibly beyond
For at least the second time in the last decade, the future of the Mac Pro looks bleak.
Bloomberg reports that there are currently no plans within Apple for a new Mac Pro, despite rumors last year that one was in the works.
Mark Gurman writes:
There’s no longer an M4 Ultra in the works (a Mac Pro to support it was also nixed), and the next high-end desktop chip will be the M5 Ultra. So far, Apple is only focused on a new Mac Studio for the processor. That suggests the Mac Pro won’t be updated in 2026 in a significant way. From what I’ve heard inside the company, Apple has largely written off the Mac Pro. The sentiment internally is that the Mac Studio now represents both the present and future of Apple’s professional desktop strategy.
None of the above explicitly says the Mac Pro is dead. But the writing appears on the wall.
My takeaways
I’m not the target customer for the Mac Pro, but I’m very curious to see how this news is received by the average Mac Pro user.
The last time there was major concern about the Mac Pro’s future, the Mac was overall in a much worse state. Now with Apple silicon, the Mac Studio, and improved Mac clustering features in macOS 26.2, perhaps it’s okay for the Mac Pro to quietly disappear.
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