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Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro and its first foldable, the iPhone Ultra, at a September 9 keynote. Pre-orders are reported to shift to Saturday the 12th because Apple avoids September 11. Here is every date, every product, and what is still uncertain.

Walmart and Sam’s Club start accepting Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Wallet on August 24, ending a twelve year refusal to switch on contactless. Here is where it works, what stays the same, and the fintech reason the holdout finally collapsed.

Apple’s iPhone 18 keynote is widely expected on September 9, and trade-in values on the outgoing generation typically fall 15% to 20% within weeks. Here is the window that protects your payout, and the 14-day rule that catches people out.

iOS 26 let you set a custom background for individual iMessage chats. What Apple did not put in front of anyone is that the background is shared, so the person you are texting gets it on their screen too. Here is how to check and how to opt out.

OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT read, draft and send texts from your Mac. In its own documentation, OpenAI warns against persistent send approval. Here is what the plugin does, why prompt injection makes that warning serious, and how to switch the setting back.

Apple sent threat notifications to users in 110 countries on August 13, and for the first time the warning lands on the iPhone Lock Screen. Here is what the alert means, how to spot a fake, and the six things to do in the first hour.

Apple’s fall 2026 event is tipped to bring the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and its first foldable, while the standard iPhone 18 slides to spring 2027. Here is why Apple split the lineup in two, the dates worth marking, and what it means if you were planning to upgrade this year.

Apple’s Find My keeps directing strangers to homes that never had their lost iPhones. Here’s the Wi-Fi positioning flaw that creates these “magnet houses,” why the same story keeps repeating, and exactly what to do whether you lost the phone or answered the door.

Apple updated its trade-in table on August 6, raising credit across most iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch models. The Mac Studio gained $260, the iPhone 16 Pro gained $70, and a handful of Android phones quietly went down.

iOS 27 will install on iPhone 11 and newer, but the rebuilt Siri AI requires an iPhone 15 Pro or later, and only the newest models get the complete feature set. Here is the three-tier breakdown and the hardware reason behind it.