Apple's flagship Pro-tier smartphones, the iPhone 18 Pro and larger Pro Max, launched in autumn 2026 as successors to the iPhone 17 Pro line and running iOS 27.
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo opens for preorder today with camera features meant to get the photographer into the group shot. The camera drops the telephoto lens and the Pro video formats, so the fit depends on what the buyer shoots.
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Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo costs $700 more than the iPhone 18 Pro Max, according to MacRumors' buyer's guide. What that money buys is a folding inner screen, so the decision comes down to how often you would open it for real work.
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Apple prices the iPhone Duo at $1,999, $800 above the iPhone 18 Pro at equal storage. MacRumors counts almost 40 compromises against the Pro models, but many are small differences, so teams should sort them by role.
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Apple's iPhone Duo costs $1,999 and has no telephoto lens or variable aperture, Engadget reports. Whether its outer-screen camera modes make up for that depends on what the buyer actually shoots.
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Apple has cut its October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max to at least 15% below its original requests, Nikkei Asia reported. Memory-chip costs are the backdrop Fortune cites, but nothing in the report measures how much of the shortfall comes from price.
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Apple has asked suppliers to cut October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by about 15%, according to a Nikkei Asia report. Nikkei blames soaring memory costs and price rises but also points to a changed launch calendar, and device teams need to know which of the two they are planning around.
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Apple says the Duo's outer and inner displays share one aspect ratio, which spares app teams the reflow pass other foldables demand. The same phone has no Face ID, so the unlock prompt is where users meet the change.
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Apple added $100 to the price of every iPhone it carried into the new lineup, and the storage configurations that corporate fleets actually order went up by several times that.
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Apple says the ongoing memory shortage is why every iPhone now costs $100 more, and MacBooks and iPads were repriced on the same grounds earlier. For fleet buyers, the component cycle has reached the price list.
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Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on November 2 against its own forecast of 9% to 11% revenue growth, in John Ternus's first call as CEO. Hardware buyers should listen for what he and CFO Kevan Parekh say about memory pricing and supply.
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AT&T texted iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 immediately, warning that some phones may be unable to complete calls, including to 911. Teams managing those phones can install it for the fixes Apple documented while keeping the cellular fault logged as unresolved.
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Apple has priced the iPhone 18 Pro from £1,199, £100 above last year's models, a rise the Guardian blames on memory costs. Its faster chip and longer battery are real gains, but they make a thin case for retiring year-old company phones early.
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AT&T is texting affected iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 because some phones may be unable to complete calls, texts or data, including to 911. Teams issuing the phones should install it before moving any eSIM, the setup step tied to some failures.
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Apple's iPhone Duo goes on pre-order October 16 and reaches buyers October 23, with a front camera on each of its two screens. Apps that open the front camera or assume a single screen have about three weeks to be tested against a device Apple has so far described mostly by its cameras.
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Apple updated Final Cut Camera so iPhone 18 Pro owners can set the variable aperture on the phone or from a nearby iPad or Mac. The remote control works through Final Cut Pro, one of the apps in Apple's $12.99-a-month Creator Studio.
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Apple took 33% of China's phone sales in the iPhone 18 Pro's launch week, Counterpoint Research says, with the standard iPhone 18 held back. Counterpoint counts that delay as one of three reasons, so the week cannot show how far the stagger alone moved buyers up to the Pro.
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Halide 3.2 lets iPhone 18 Pro owners pick any f-stop from f/1.48 to f/4.0 and set ISO by hand, past the limits of Apple's Camera app. Manual ISO is the stronger reason to pay, since The Verge doubts shooters will notice its finest f-stop steps.
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Some iPhone 18 Pro owners report speaker pops that iOS 27.0.1 did not fix, per early feedback gathered by MacRumors. The reports are few and the cause is unknown, so a quick test on arrival matters more than delaying a purchase.
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Apple's iOS 27.0.1 stops the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max restarting when Face ID fails, two weeks after iOS 27 shipped. The notes do not mention the setup error or the Require Attention trouble owners also reported, so those owners will only find out by installing it.
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Matt Birchler's iPhone 18 Pro transcription test peaked at 447.9 words per second, then held just over 320 from the seventh run on. Only cooling from outside the phone lifted the sustained rate, so long on-device inference jobs should be sized to the lower number.
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