Apple has attempted to shield customers from memory and storage chip price increases, but it has "become unsustainable." Price change timing hasn't been shared. Chip shortages could affect iPhone pricing in the fall One of the most predictable parts of Apple is its price structure. It's basically a feature of the product, so price changes are very rare and heavily considered. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Apple CEO Tim Cook says that product prices will have to increase to account for chip shortages. While the company has worked its usual supply chain magic to mitigate costs , things have exceeded its ability to shield customers. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
A new rumor suggests that the iPhone Air 2 is being tested and is expected to launch in early 2027 with improved battery life and an ultra-wide camera. Though, these aren't groundbreaking claims. iPhone Air 2 is expected to add an ultrawide rear camera The iPhone Air debuted in September 2025 alongside the iPhone 17 lineup as a separate device. It seemed clear at the time that Apple wouldn't be upgrading it annually, at least not at first. The latest rumor places the second-generation iPhone Air in the spring alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e. Speculation already picked that timeframe due to the previously known shift in iPhone release schedule. Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Like iOS 27 , iPadOS 27 gains a smarter, more capable version of Siri , the ‌Siri‌ app, and new Apple Intelligence features in apps, but there are a few iPad-only standouts. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. ‌Siri‌ AI on iPad has all of the same features as ‌Siri‌ AI on the iPhone, so it can access your personal data, search the web for answers, complete tasks in apps, and answer questions about what's on your screen. For people who write with Apple Pencil on ‌iPad‌, it can index your handwritten notes so you can search through them. You can use ‌Siri‌ to take action on your notes, whether typed or handwritten. ‌Siri‌ can summarize, rewrite, give you writing advice, check grammar, generate new text for you, and more. There's a systemwide Write with ‌Siri‌ feature for getting help no matter which app you're using. There's a new Image Playground app that can generate images in any style, including photorealistic, and that powers the Image Wand in the Notes app. You can draw a quick sketch of something in Notes and then use ‌Image Wand‌ to turn it into a photorealistic visual aid. Visual Intelligence used to be an iPhone-only feature, but in ‌iPadOS 27‌, it's expanding to the ‌iPad‌. You can take a screenshot and then circle what you want to know more about with a finger or the ‌Apple Pencil‌. The ‌iPad‌ supports the same ‌Visual Intelligence‌ features, like telling you the nutritional value of food and identifying plants and animals. The Shortcuts app can use AI to automatically generate shortcuts for you, which can be especially useful on the ‌iPad‌. If you want a quick way to change how the ‌iPad‌'s windowing works when you attach a keyboard vs. when you use it without a keyboard, you can describe that in a sentence or two and get a functional shortcut just a minute later. Safari supports automatically grouping tabs, plus there's an AI feature for generating your own extensions. Like ‌iOS 27‌, ‌iPadOS 27‌ is also more responsive thanks to performance improvements. Browsing and transferring files are quicker, AirDrop is faster, apps launch more quickly, and multitasking on ‌iPad‌ is faster. There's a Liquid Glass slider for adjusting opacity to your taste, and Apple also made other Liquid Glass improvements to boost readability. You can also resize iPhone apps that are running on the ‌iPad‌. ‌Siri‌ AI and ‌Apple Intelligence‌ in ‌iPadOS 27‌ require an ‌iPad‌ with an M-series chip or the A17 Pro iPad mini . EU users won't get ‌Siri‌ AI on ‌iPad‌ when ‌iPadOS 27‌ launches, and it's also not available in China. Older iPads won't get ‌Siri‌ AI or ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features, but they will get the performance improvements Apple added. Older iPads will feel faster on ‌iPadOS 27‌ than they do in iPadOS 26 . Related Roundups: iOS 27 , iPadOS 27 This article, " iPadOS 27 Hands-On: Everything New for iPad " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
