Apple Watch Series 12’s new heart rate sensor tracked almost exactly with a Polar H10 chest strap in the first round of testing by Rob ter Horst, who runs The Quantified Scientist YouTube channel. In his own testing, the watch scored correlations of a rounded 1.0 for indoor cycling, 0.98 for running and 0.97 for…
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53% of US iPhone shoppers want an 18 Pro and 14% a Duo, Evercore survey finds
Evercore ISI’s survey of nearly 4,000 US consumers found that 53% of people planning to buy an iPhone intend to get an iPhone 18 Pro or Pro Max, and 14% intend to buy iPhone Duo. Analyst Amit Daryanani used the results in a September 18 note to clients to raise Evercore’s Apple price target to…
DXOMARK scores iPhone 18 Pro 172, second only to the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra
DXOMARK has given the iPhone 18 Pro an overall camera score of 172, which puts it second in the lab’s global ranking, three points behind the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra at 175. Its video score of 176 is marked as DXOMARK’s top score for any phone. A low-light photo taken with iPhone 18 Pro's variable…
iPhone 18 Pro Max lasted 18 hours 27 minutes in an independent battery test
iPhone 18 Pro Max ran for 18 hours and 27 minutes of continuous web browsing over cellular before shutting down in Tom’s Guide’s standard battery test, published September 16, and the smaller iPhone 18 Pro lasted 16 hours and 17 minutes. Both beat last year’s models, the Pro Max by 33 minutes and the Pro…
TechInsights finds a Qualcomm X80 modem inside the US iPhone 18 Pro Max
TechInsights’ preliminary teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro Max found a Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 modem inside, not Apple’s own C2. The unit it opened is model A3473, the US version of the phone, and Apple’s own US specs page quietly agrees: it lists the Apple C2 cellular modem for iPhone 18 Pro but not for…
Apple TV put 14 iPhone 18 Pros around Dodger Stadium, eight on T-Mobile 5G
Apple TV set up 14 iPhone 18 Pro units around Dodger Stadium as specialty cameras for its last Friday Night Baseball broadcast of the 2026 season, the San Francisco Giants at the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 18. Eight of them were set to send live video to the production over a dedicated T-Mobile Private…
ROSÉ's "new trick" music video was shot entirely on iPhone 18 Pro
ROSÉ’s music video for her new single “new trick” was shot entirely on iPhone 18 Pro, and Apple is running it as a Shot on iPhone showcase for the new phone. The three-minute video went up on ROSÉ’s official YouTube channel on September 17, and Apple posted a 35-second cut on its own channel on…
Apple sets iPhone 18 Pro battery service at $129, up $10 from iPhone 17 Pro
A battery replacement for iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max costs $129 out of warranty in the US, $10 more than Apple charges on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple’s repair price tool now lists every estimate for both new phones, and every other line, from a cracked screen to…
iPhone Duo was shaped like a paper notebook, Apple's designers tell GQ
Apple designed iPhone Duo around the feel of a paper notebook, and its proportions come from the A-series paper system, so the phone keeps the same shape whether it is open or closed. That is the core of what Apple CEO John Ternus, industrial design VP Molly Anderson and human interface design VP Steve Lemay…
Run Prepare to Ship before you mail an iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple says
Before you box up an activated iPhone 18 Pro Max for a repair, trade-in, return or new owner, open Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone and tap Prepare to Ship. Apple published the requirement on September 18 in a support document, because the Pro Max battery is now over 20 watt-hours and single-cell…