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Three men were arrested recently in connection with the armed hijacking of an Apple delivery truck outside a Long Island mall four months ago. Federal authorities say the Apple delivery truck hijacking arrests followed a methodical investigation built on rental records, surveillance footage, and the movement of stolen goods across state lines, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.

iPhone 18 Pro Camera Control Rumor: Why Fewer Sensors May Mean a Better Button

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Apple's emergency bid to pause the Ninth Circuit's mandate in its dispute with Epic Games has failed. The Supreme Court denied the Apple Epic Games Supreme Court stay request without explanation, the mandate issued Tuesday, and the case now returns to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California, per Apple's May 4 filing under docket 25A1213.

Alleged CAD files surfaced this week showing the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a top cutout described as "much smaller" than the pill-shaped opening Apple has used since the iPhone 14 Pro, GSMArena reported. A tipster on X claims to have received the files, which, if genuine, most likely passed through a case manufacturer that received them from Apple, per GSMArena. The leak doesn't confirm anything on its own.

iOS 26.5 Beta 2: Apple's Key Changes Before WWDC 2026

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Apple is not expected to release a standard iPhone 18 in 2026. According to supply chain sources cited by Nikkei Asia, the iPhone 18 release date delay puts the base model in the first half of 2027, with the Pro lineup and Apple's first foldable iPhone still on track for September. Apple has not confirmed the change. But the sourcing behind it is unusually strong.

Apple is reportedly planning to let users choose from competing third-party AI models to power Apple Intelligence features across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected this fall. Mark Gurman broke the story for Bloomberg yesterday, citing people with knowledge of private plans, as Thurrott reported. If it ships as described, this is not a modest expansion of the existing ChatGPT partnership. It is a structural redesign of what Apple Intelligence is.

iOS 26.5 RCS encryption is now confirmed in Apple's release notes, bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to iPhone-Android RCS conversations for the first time. The feature is on by default in the release candidate that began rolling out this week. The catch, spelled out in those same release notes: both users' carriers need to support RCS Universal Profile 3.0 before any given conversation gets the protection.

Bloomberg's reporting this week on Apple Intel Samsung chip talks confirms what supply chain watchers have suspected for months: Apple is in early-stage discussions with both Intel and Samsung about producing some of its M-series chips, marking the first concrete move toward ending its decade-long exclusivity with TSMC. No orders have been placed. No products are affected. But Apple's posture has shifted, and that shift matters.

Apple's April compliance deadline with Brazil's antitrust authority CADE has arrived, and iOS 26.5 RC is the software release that fits the window. Brazilian iPhone users are set to gain access to alternative app marketplaces and external payment options. What they are not getting is the ability to download apps directly from a developer's website and that distinction matters more than most coverage of iOS 26.5 RC app sideloading in Brazil has acknowledged.

A report claims Apple is planning "aggressive pricing" for the iPhone 18 Pro. The evidence points not to a broad sticker-price surge across the lineup, but to something more targeted: Apple widening the distance between its Pro tier and everything below it, pushing the premium ceiling higher where hardware investment gives it cover, while keeping entry pricing accessible enough to protect volume on a product it sells roughly 200–230 million units annually.

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro is shaping up to arrive with a meaningfully different front panel. Face ID components are expected to begin moving beneath the display, shrinking the Dynamic Island and replacing today's pill-shaped cutout with a rumored single small hole-punch camera. That's a genuine shift. It is not, despite some headlines, an all-screen iPhone, and the quad-curved display circulating in some rumors has no sourcing to support it for this model.

Perplexity has shifted its Personal Computer from dedicated spare hardware to software running directly on a user's own Mac. The Mac-native version reads local files, works across active applications, and executes multi-step workflows in the background. No spare device required. The rollout began in mid-April, restricted to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month, with wider access going first to waitlist members

App Store Connect New Languages for App Metadata: What to Localize First

Apple's fiscal second quarter results, reported two years ago this week, produced a string of genuine records: an all-time Services revenue high, the largest share buyback in company history, a new earnings-per-share record for the March quarter. Morningstar's verdict on the Apple Q2 earnings analysis was blunt: "a weak fiscal 2024, but optimism for 2025." That framing tells you everything about how analysts actually read the quarter. The results beat consensus on revenue, EPS, Services, Mac,...

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives natively on Mac through Steam on May 28, handled by specialist porting studio Feral Interactive, with an App Store release planned for later in 2026, Engadget reported today. Until now, the official support page listed the game as Windows-only and pointed Mac users toward Parallels as a workaround, per Age of Empires support documentation. That guidance is now obsolete.

Jack Dorsey's grant-funded, anti-AI, decentralized Vine reboot is now publicly listed on iOS and Android. Whether its philosophy survives mainstream pressure is what gets tested from here.

Apple and TBWA\Media Arts Lab Shanghai this week launched a China-specific Apple Watch campaign built around accounts from three users whose watches triggered emergency responses during a car crash, a fall, and a cardiac event. The campaign, titled "Thankfully, I Was Wearing It" and live across digital and social channels since April 22, arrives two months after Apple said AFib History became available on Apple Watch in mainland China, adding a clinical monitoring tool to the emergency-response...

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Apple's supply chain has begun manufacturing components for a variable-aperture main camera expected in the iPhone 18 Pro, with three named suppliers now in active production, Cult of Mac reported two weeks ago, citing ETNews. The development adds hard supply-chain evidence to a rumor that analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station had already flagged separately. Apple has never implemented a variable aperture on an iPhone, MacRumors noted last week, making the iPhone 18 Pro...

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman now says the long-rumored Apple foldable iPad may "end up being a wacky experiment that doesn't see the light of day," per The Verge this past Sunday. The rumored launch window has slipped from 2024 to 2026 to 2028 to 2029, and now carries no date at all. Whether the Apple foldable iPad is cancelled outright or stuck in indefinite limbo, the distinction is mostly semantic at this point.

Apple is planning to overhaul the Photos app across iPhone, iPad, and Mac this fall, adding four iOS 27 AI photo editing tools grouped under a dedicated "Apple Intelligence Tools" section in the editing interface. Bloomberg reported the plans this week, citing people familiar with the matter, and framed the changes explicitly as an effort to better compete with Android devices. The reporting was picked up and confirmed by The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Engadget.

Apple is introducing a new App Store billing option that lets users pay for annual subscriptions in 12 monthly installments rather than a single upfront charge. The Apple monthly subscription 12-month commitment launches in May alongside iOS 26.5, available worldwide except in the United States and Singapore, with no official explanation for either exclusion and no timeline for when those markets will be included, according to MacRumors and Digital Trends.

Apple Watch owners who use Sleep Schedule have had one persistent annoyance: the iPhone stays silent at wake time. iOS 26.4, released today, addresses that directly with a new toggle called "Always Play on iPhone" that makes the Apple Watch sleep alarm play on iPhone simultaneously with the wrist haptic. The fix is opt-in, scoped only to Sleep Schedule alarms, and requires a specific setup to appear at all, according to 9to5Mac.

The Apple Ultra rumors have been building for months, but the coverage keeps missing the more interesting story. Whether the foldable iPhone launches as "iPhone Ultra" or "iPhone Fold" is a secondary question. The more consequential argument, supported by the rumor trail across the past several weeks, is that Apple may be constructing a permanent structural tier above Pro one designed to house first-generation hardware that is too manufacturing-constrained, too expensive, and too...

The most persuasive Apple rumors are rarely the ones promising the impossible. They're the ones that describe something just close enough to impossible that you can see how Apple gets there.

Apple's ambitious OLED roadmap just hit a significant speed bump. While the tech giant has successfully brought OLED technology to its iPad Pro lineup, the transition to MacBooks is proving more complex than initially anticipated. The MacBook Air's journey to OLED displays is reportedly targeted for around 2028, with some analyst estimates suggesting a later window, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with some analysts suggesting it could slip even further to 2029. This delay stems from the...

The alternative app store landscape just got a lot more interesting. AltStore PAL, one of the first platforms to challenge Apple's iOS monopoly in Europe, is making two major moves that could reshape how we discover and interact with mobile apps. The company recently secured $6 million in Series A funding led by Pace Capital, according to Mobile Marketing Reads, and is preparing to integrate with the fediverse—the decentralized social network that powers platforms like Mastodon and Threads,...

The tech world loves a good "what if" story, and the MacBook Neo concept has sparked one of the most compelling conversations about Apple's future in years. This isn't just another designer's fever dream or wishful thinking—it's a glimpse into what could happen when we stop thinking about our devices as separate entities and start imagining them as different expressions of the same core technology.

The global smartphone manufacturing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, and Apple's latest production milestone in India represents far more than just another factory coming online. When a single country begins producing one in four of the world's most coveted smartphones, it signals a fundamental reimagining of how tech giants approach supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk, and manufacturing strategy in an increasingly uncertain world.

Editor's note: No independent research data was available for this report. All claims are drawn exclusively from Aulumu's public product listing. No external market figures, technical benchmarks, or third-party specifications have been verified for this piece. Figures marked TBC were not confirmed on the product page at time of writing. This is a product-listing assessment, not a review.