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4,883 mAh gives the iPhone Duo a roughly 220 mAh nominal edge over the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Apple rates the battery for 1,000 cycles to 80% capacity, versus Samsung's 1,200.

Apple's EU energy label for the iPhone Duo lists a combined 4,883 mAh battery across 2,962 mAh and 1,921 mAh cells, MacRumors reports. That sits between the eSIM-only iPhone 18 Pro at 4,288 mAh and Pro Max at 5,567 mAh, per iFixit.

Apple plans a retail store reset for Nov. 6, a hint at new Mac release timing, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

The Circuitry Daily Rundown: Oct 17 • Apple Expands App Store Rules to Block AI Deepfakes • BeyondTrust Remote Support Zero-Day CVE-2026-102764 Hit in August… • CISA adds two actively exploited AhsayCBS flaws to KEV catalog Verified, in about a minute.

Apple Store staff told MacRumors they have been advised there will likely be no iPhone Duo stock for walk-in purchases on the October 23 launch day. Staff are discouraging customers without pre-orders from coming in, warning they will be disappointed.

Apple's $79 silicone case for the iPhone Duo attaches with adhesive strips you have to expose, rather than magnets, which makes swapping cases or going caseless harder. Apple's other official case is a $129 folio with a kickstand.

Three updates hit the iOS 27.2 beta this week. • Five toggles for Messages suggestion types • Lock After Closing and Door Left Open alerts in Home • New black-and-white Apple Music icon and blue tab accent

Daring Fireball's John Gruber says the price increases on the new Apple TV 4K ($299) and HomePod mini 2 ($149) are "much more striking" than their new features. A 128GB Apple TV plus two HomePod minis now costs about $600, up from about $350 before late June, MacRumors reports.

Apple launched the iPhone Duo early with limited supply to get it to market sooner, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says. He believes reasonable availability won't come until November at the earliest.

Apple's new App Store head laid out the company's gaming plans to Polygon during Indie Games Week, which brought Vampire Crawlers to iOS and an announced mobile version of No Man's Sky. He wouldn't confirm whether Apple's own data matches a GamesIndustry.biz report that premium mobile game sales rose 77% in 2025.

$289.99 buys the new Apple TV 4K on preorder at Amazon, $9 below list price ahead of the November 13 launch. The discount is the first on the device since its announcement.

Apple Original Films' Tenzing is now streaming on Apple TV+. The adventure drama stars Genden Phuntsok as Tenzing Norgay, Tom Hiddleston as Edmund Hillary and Willem Dafoe as Colonel John Hunt, 9to5Mac reports.

Apple and Nvidia each pledged $25 million toward President Trump’s White House ballroom, making them two of the largest donors on an internal list obtained by The Washington Post, 9to5Mac reports. Other tech pledges on the list include $22 million from Google and $10 million each from Microsoft and Palantir.

Apple Sports 4.5 adds five soccer leagues and expands Live Activities to show key stats during breaks, 9to5Mac reports: Brazilian Serie B, English League One, English League Two, Norwegian Eliteserien, and UEFA Nations League.

Apple told OpenAI on October 12 that it had been unable to locate any OpenAI confidential information after investigating an allegation about a former OpenAI engineer now on Apple's iPhone manufacturing design team. In a court filing, Apple said OpenAI raised the allegations without notice and that they are unrelated to its main trade secret case, 9to5Mac reports.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple retail stores are holding product resets on November 6, a week after the new Mac and iPad mini introduction he expects.

New Withings accounts created on or after October 13, 2026 need a Withings+ subscription, $99.50 a year in the US, for automatic syncing to Apple Health and other third-party apps. Accounts created by October 12 keep free syncing, even with new devices, MacRumors reports.

Apple's Rich Dinh and JP Guillou told MrMobile that the iPhone Duo display doesn't exist at a supplier until Apple starts working on it with its own specifications. “There's not a pre-cooked shelf of components,” Dinh said, adding that Apple customizes “down to the nanometer.”

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple has tested both 60Hz and 120Hz ProMotion displays for the next iPad mini, but he hasn’t learned which one Apple chose. MacRumors expects the new iPad mini to be announced October 27 or 28.

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model it optimized for Apple’s Mac Studio with M5 Ultra using Apple’s MLX framework, 9to5Mac reports. Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told Axios the two companies have been working together for several months.

Apple is reportedly preparing its first Apple Intelligence features for a December launch in China after years of regulatory delays. The iOS 27.3 beta is expected by end of month ahead of the public release.

Apple TV 4K pre-orders from the company store now list November 23-27 delivery. HomeView silver and starlight models slipped to November 20.

Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave a combined $92 million for Trump’s White House ballroom, according to a Washington Post donor list cited by The Verge. Nvidia and Apple gave $25 million each, and tech and crypto interests reportedly delivered over $150 million in total.

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak on OpenAI hardware plans: “We don’t feel threatened. The fact that we can do the integration that we can means we can create just a better experience than anybody else.”

Up to ten people can be tracked simultaneously by Shelly's Presence Gen4 sensor, announced today with mmWave radar instead of a camera. • $84.99 starting price • 140-degree field of view for spaces up to 650 square feet • Supports Google Home, Apple Home, Alexa, SmartThings, and Home Assistant

Apple's HomePod mini 2 can now be set as a Mac's default audio output for system sound, FaceTime calls and video, provided the Mac supports Wi-Fi 6E. The change removes the need for manual AirPlay switching after restarts.

John Ternus says rival foldables from the 2010s felt "kind of cheap and crappy," prompting Apple to refine its iPhone Duo hinge with more than 100 precision components and a custom nanotexture polymer. The work traces back to a 2011 patent filing by Ternus and five engineers.

Apple CEO John Ternus appears on the cover of TIME's "Best Inventions of 2026" edition, out October 26.

iPhone Duo pre-orders start Friday, Oct. 16, at 5 a.m. PT on apple.com and in the Apple Store app, Apple said.

Customers have until 9 p.m. PT today to prepare for iPhone Duo pre-orders, Apple announced. Completing the setup now enables single-click checkout when orders open at 5 a.m. PT tomorrow, ahead of the October 23 launch.

$1,148,200 sets a new record for a working Apple-1 that last sold for $686,000 in 2013. The Hatfield unit includes a signed Wozniak board and a Jobs letter the original owner ignored.

Apple is inviting some media to an all-day product launch experience in Los Angeles on Oct. 28 for the first touch-screen MacBooks, a new iPad mini and M6 Macs, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

Apple Invites 1.12.1 adds two features for hosts. • Easier manual guest addition and RSVP status marking. • Extra large Home Screen widget support.

Apple TV renewed Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed for a second season. The thriller's debut season holds a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, and creator David J. Rosen said, “This is all pretty amazing for a show whose title came from a spam email.”

Apple confirmed Siri AI will be exclusive to the HomePod mini 2 and Apple TV 4K models from the second generation onward. The original HomePod mini's S5 chip is not supported.

Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico replace the motherboards in 3rd- and 4th-generation iPods and iPod minis with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, microSD storage, and FLAC playback. The higher-end Pi version adds Spotify and Apple Music streaming plus app support, all without soldering.

Over a hundred highly confidential files on at least one unreleased OpenAI device were sent by a former employee to his personal accounts on his final day, the company alleges in a new filing. Apple says it has found no evidence to support the claims.

Apple's HomeView will run third-party audio and video apps, and Apple says iPhone widgets built for CarPlay will appear on it too unless developers explicitly exclude them, 9to5Mac reports.

iPhone Duo repairs without AppleCare+ reach $1,499 for other damage. • Cover layer: $49 • Back glass: $199 • Battery service: $229

HomeView supports none of Apple’s video or audio apps natively. Apple TV, Apple Books audiobooks, Apple Music Classical, and Apple News Plus all require a paired iPhone for AirPlay.

$59 buys Apple's updated Siri Remote with Find My and a built-in speaker. It works with every Apple TV model back to the HD, though precise distance finding needs an iPhone Duo, iPhone Air or iPhone 17 or later.

Apple confirms HomePod (2nd generation) works as a default speaker on all Macs with Wi-Fi 6E or later, matching the HomePod mini 2.

Apple added three products to its obsolete list, ending service for all 12-inch MacBook models. • 2017 12-inch MacBook • iPad 6th generation • BeatsX

Apple Watch sleep apnea notifications launched in mainland China after National Medical Products Administration approval. The feature runs on Series 9, Ultra 2, SE 3, and newer models using accelerometer data analyzed over 30-day periods.

BOE has reportedly spent six months trying to fix recurring glass substrate breakage at its $9.4 billion Gen 8.6 OLED plant in Chengdu while seeking Apple iPad panel approval.

iOS 27.2 beta 4 gives Apple Music a monochrome app icon that renders white on black or black on white. The tab bar now uses blue for the active item, while widgets and Library sections lose their red and pink accents for black-and-white designs.

$299 HomeView pricing stands out to Gurman as reasonable enough to drive big sales, with Apple's new end-to-end smart home strategy finally delivering a cohesive story.

Apple's HomeView hub ships in two versions with a speaker gap beyond their shapes. The domed-base model adds a down-firing woofer and dual force-cancelling passive radiators to its two full-range drivers, while the wall-mounted edition uses two custom drivers only.

Apple has released the fourth iOS 27.2 developer beta. It adds the redesigned Health app, dual capture mode in Group FaceTime, and Siri AI support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Four HomePods connect to the new Apple TV 4K for surround sound in front-left, front-right, rear-left, and rear-right positions. Earlier models were limited to two for stereo.

Apple researchers detail Minions, a system that pools idle GPUs across Apple Silicon Macs into a dynamic distributed cloud for ML inference tasks. The approach targets environments where centralized GPU capacity is constrained.

Apple announced Apple Intelligence features for the Apple TV, adding conversational Siri with full-screen search, personalized recommendations, and smart home camera summaries. The update arrives in beta with tvOS 27.2 on second-generation Apple TV 4K and later.

Apple's wall-mounted HomeView lists for $299 but ships without a mount. The cheapest option starts at $59.95, with two others at $79.95 and $129.95.

Apple received an FCC equipment authorization on Oct. 13 for model A3374 (FCC ID BCGA3374), which fccid.io lists as a 'Smart Speaker.' Test reports cover Wi-Fi including 6 GHz, Bluetooth, 802.15.4 and ultra-wideband radios; the filing does not name the product.

Apple’s HomeView 7" display reportedly starts at $299 for both versions and ships November 13, 2026. • A18 chip, 0.3-500 nit adaptive brightness • Aluminum enclosure, six-user face recognition • Dual drivers plus down-firing woofer

iJustine posted a first look at Apple HomeView on X, plus a separate post showing the new Home Collection accessories. Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) said he's going hands-on with HomeView today, and Joanna Stern posted "More soon!"

LG devices in the new Apple Home Collection start at $199.95 (U.S.) for the Indoor Cam Plug-In and the Smart Thermostat. Apple says the lineup will be available starting in December.

Apple's new Apple TV 4K (4th generation) is available for $299 (U.S.) or $49.83 (U.S.) per month for six months, Apple says, with 128GB storage, Wi-Fi 7, Gigabit Ethernet, and Thread. The previous model started at $129 when it launched in 2022.

The new Siri Remote is sold separately for $59 (U.S.) on Apple's online store. Apple gives no ship date for the remote; its Newsroom release says only that it "is also available for purchase separately." Apple says it keeps the familiar design, adds Find My with Precision Finding and an option to play a sound to locate it, and works with Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K.