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📱 iPhone 17 Pro will remain with a titanium frame 💬 An Instant Digital insider on Chinese Weibo (who previously successfully predicted a yellow iPhone 14, cameras for shooting spatial video in the iPhone 15 Pro, and matte rear glass in the iPhone 15/15 Plus) has spoken out about rumors of an aluminum frame in the iPhone 17 Pro. 👍 Interestingly, his opinion coincided with the opinion of one of our subscribers, who in a comment under the post was wondering how Apple could switch to such a soft metal.

Why would anyone believe that the iPhone 17 Pro will go to aluminum? I have one thought about it – it's just not possible. Looking back at recent iPhone models, it's worth remembering how Apple has consistently emphasized the premium frame materials of the Pro series as a key marketing point, from “surgical stainless steel” to “titanium.” If they switched to aluminum, how could they even sell it? Of course, it's the iPhone 17 Pro models that will still use titanium.

– the leaker claims. @iPhone #iPhone #rumors

🥽 Apple Vision Pro sales officially start in Taiwan 🇹🇼 Apple Vision Pro sales will start on December 17 at Apple stores in Taiwan. 🔜 Pre-order and sign up for demo sessions in stores will open from tomorrow, December 5. 💰 The device will be priced from NT$119900 for the 256GB version. ⚖️ P.S. NT = New Taiwan dollar. 1 USD ≈ 32.5 NT. @iPhone #VisionPro

🔉 Great reflection for creative people from Apple, and most importantly for free 📱 Today it's hard to imagine your life without a smartphone, and for some people it is without iPhone. Business people and fans of chips with AI have not long to wait because iOS 18.2 is on its way – it is promised next week. 🎵 In the meantime, you can reflect on your year with Apple Music, because the music we listen to every day reflects what's going on inside of us. It's true that some people just turn on the radio for background, others listen to what everyone else listens to. But for those who have a collection of music and the moods it creates such a “New Year's gift” from Apple will be a genuine pleasure. 🔎 Apple Music Replay – by tapping on the link, logging into your profile, you can see clearly how your musical year went, how many minutes and songs you listened to, your achievements, the top artists and much more. It is very useful that you can see your top artist for each month, and, run through the whole year: what happened in your life in this month and to what soundtracks. 🍎 Third-party services (like Spotify) have similar “Replays”, but it seems that only Apple has its talent to present the information about you in such a stylish way. 💬 Share screenshots of Apple Music Replay in the comments, but if you don't want everyone to know your most magical music, keep your personalized highlight reel for yourself. @iPhone #apps

🆕 Apple Store has opened in Madrid 📍 New pin on the map is Apple Store La Vaguada and this is the fifth in Madrid, twelfth in the country, but the newest in 10 years in the Spanish capital. 🔍 Inside, the decoration is already familiar to other new stores of the company in wood and recyclable eco-friendly materials, but this design has not yet been in any Apple store in Spain. 👍 The new store features Pickup and Today at Apple areas for the first time, as well as a revamped Genius Bar area and even an Apple Watch Studio. In addition, the store has become the most spacious in the entire chain in Madrid. 🆓 Traditionally, all first-time visitors to Apple La Vaguada were given a blue shopper with the new store's logo. @iPhone #AppleStore

📰 Apple orders M5 chips from TSMC ahead of late 2025 production 😐 Apple has ordered M5 chips from TSMC as the company begins production development of its next-generation processor for future devices, claims a new Korean-language report by The Elec. 🆙 The technology of the new chip will remain 3nm, but will be improved, which will slightly improve performance. The chips will be assembled in the second half of 2025, and the first devices will be released at the end of the year: Apple Vision Pro, iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. @iPhone #rumors

🎥 Wallace and Gromit star in a festive stop-motion animation, shot on iPhone 16 Pro 🇬🇧 Apple announced that a new stop-motion animation featuring Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London's Battersea Power Station this holiday season. Academy Award-winning creators Aardman used the powerful camera system to turn their 23-centimetre characters into a 101-metre projection for station. 📍 The festive, six-minute video will be shown every day from 5 pm to 10:30 pm until New Year's Eve. It is free to watch, and reservations are not needed. 📱 Apple is promoting the animation as part of its latest "Shot on iPhone" campaign. Aardman filmed the stop-motion video with the Telephoto camera on eight iPhone 16 Pro Max devices. 🍎 More details about this "Shot on iPhone" campaign, including an upcoming "Today at Apple" session with Aardman, are available on Apple's website. @iPhone #ApplePromo #iPhone

⚽ Soccer on Apple Vision Pro LIVE 📰 Apple is in talks with 🇪🇸 Real Madrid FC and plans to hold the first immersive broadcast of a match. According to Spanish sports publication Marca, the president of Real Madrid soccer club, Florentino Perez, has revealed talks with Apple. One of the ideas discussed was the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, which is still undergoing renovations, could get a technical innovation with Apple. Although he did not elaborate on the details, it is likely to be immersive video broadcasts of matches specifically for Apple Vision Pro. Apple has its own dedicated cameras to capture Apple Immersive video, but there have never been live broadcasts in this format yet. 🎤 Florentino Perez:

Everyone wants to get inside the Santiago Bernabeu, but the number of seats even after the renovation is limited and that's why we are in talks with Apple to be able to carry Apple Vision Pro and watch the match as if you were right inside the stadium. It would be a real infinite Santiago Bernabeu!

@iPhone #VisionPro #rumors

🥽 Apple Vision Pro has been developed since at least 2008 📆 A 2008 patent shows that the company had been working on Vision Pro for at least 15 years before it finally launched. Both the patent drawing and the description of the device are remarkably consistent with the product that finally launched in 2024. 📈 The display technology needed to turn the idea into reality didn’t even exist then, but Apple still had a clear vision of what it wanted to achieve – and was prepared to keep developing it until it finally was feasible, albeit at a very high price. 🐌 The big question now is how much longer it will take for the company to be able to offer a more affordable Apple Vision product without making too many compromises along the way. The most recent reporting suggests Apple has put this project on the back-burner for now as it focuses on a 2nd-gen Pro device likely to be powered by an M5 chip. 🍏 Among new features that visionOS 2 brought there is Panoramic productivity with Mac Virtual Display that allows you to use your MacBook display around you. 🥽 Like many other 'yummy' features from Apple the one above 'coming later this year'. All updates in the new visionOS can be found here. @iPhone #VisionPro #visionOS

🇨🇳 Apple is working hard to launch Apple Intelligence in China 📈 Tim Cook traveled to China for the China International Supply Chain Expo, where he will present the company's future strategy to local ministers and technology partners.

I value them [our local partners] very highly. We couldn't do what we do without them. I'm proud to be here and Apple has something to present to our partners here.

said Tim at the expo to Chinese media. 🤝 Tim also arrived in China to meet with the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Qiang. The purpose of the meeting is described by local sources as the preparation of regulatory requirements and conditions for their implementation, which will form the basis for the launch of new Apple services in China. 💬 According to Cook, “Apple is now working hard to launch Apple Intelligence in China”. Therefore, Apple and the CEO himself, as part of his trip to China, may be involved in discussions with several Chinese tech companies, including search giant Baidu, ByteDance (the Chinese division of TikTok) and AI startup Moonshot, to incorporate some of their features into Apple Intelligence within China, as required by local law. 😉 There's a very long and complicated process ahead, but after face-to-face talks between Apple representatives and Chinese partners and ministers things could move much faster. @iPhone #AppleInc #AppleIntelligence

📰 Major redesign for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max 👂 The Information reported, citing its insiders, that in addition to the iPhone 17 Air, which should become the thinnest iPhone in the lineup, other iPhone 17 models will get a new case design. 🔍 These will be significant changes: First of all, all devices will switch to aluminum frames instead of steel and titanium for some reason. The back panel of the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max models will have a new part-aluminum and part-glass design: the top half of the back panel will consist of a rectangular (still) protruding camera unit, but now in aluminum instead of glass (looks like it will become like iPad Pro M4). The bottom half will remain glass to support MagSafe wireless charging. 📱 About the iPhone 17 Air Insiders specify that in all current prototypes, which are 5 to 6 mm thick there is no SIM card tray. That is, it is expected to support only eSIM for all regions, but in question so far remains China, Hong Kong and Macau, where traditionally sold devices with two physical nanoSIM. 📱 More on the prototypes One of the iPhone 17 Air prototypes only has a single speaker grid on the bottom edge. And another prototype of the ultra-thin iPhone has a single rear camera placed not in the usual corner, but in the center. However, these are just considered variants and everything can still change, because these are early prototypes, and the release of the new model is just under a year away. @iPhone #iPhone #rumors

🎧 Apple has no plans for major AirPods Max updates after USB-C version 📱 According to the post on 𝕏 by Mark Gurman, Apple does not intend to make any major updates to its AirPods Max headphones after the release of the USB-C model in 2024. 🔌 The AirPods Max were released in December 2020 for $549 and have not received updates for almost four years. Only in September 2024, a version with USB-C and several new colours appeared. However, there were no significant updates, such as the H2 chip or adaptive audio. 📉 Gurman notes that despite the high price, AirPods Max have their audience. However, their low popularity among buyers does not allow Apple to invest in the development of new models. 🎧 Apple will leave the headphones in their current form for several more years, and no price reduction is expected at the moment. @iPhone #AirPods

🔨 iFixit got inside MacBook Pro M4 and found no noticeable changes 🧠 There are almost no internal changes in the new MacBook Pro on the M4 Pro chip. The layout is identical to its predecessor, and the only difference is the larger heatsink. 😰 To remove the battery, you'll still need to remove the trackpad, and getting to the logic board is “incredibly difficult and tedious” because of the large number of screws and cables. 👍 All in all, repairing the new MacBook Pro doesn't get any more complicated, which is a plus. @iPhone #MacBook

📰 Apple reportedly prepping powerful new AI version of Siri for 2026 🤖 The company is developing a new version of Siri that would work more like popular AI bots such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. 🗺 The goal is to catch up with other AIs by equipping Siri with more advanced and conversational skills, Gurman said in a story published Thursday, citing "people with knowledge of the matter." 🤪 Dubbed "LLM Siri" by Apple employees (LLM standing for large language model), the new Siri is already being tested internally on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as a standalone app. But if all goes well, the new assistant will eventually replace the Siri we all know and have a hard time loving. 📆 Apple could announce the new AI as soon as 2025 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16. The new OS editions should launch next September, as expected. However, LLM Siri won't debut until the spring of 2026, similar to the way the company is doling out Apple Intelligence in dribs and drabs. However, given the work involved and these early reports, that timeframe could change. @iPhone #Siri #AppleIntelligence

🛒 Apple unveils 2024 Black Friday: up to $200 gift card on eligible purchases 📰 Apple has officially announced its Black Friday promo for this year. Starting November 29, you can score an up to $200 gift card when you buy an eligible Apple product from Apple’s website, app, and retail stores. 🔍 Here are the details: 📱 Up to $75 gift card with iPhone 15, 14, or SE purchase 💻 Up to $200 gift card with a MacBook Air M2 or M3 purchase 📲 Up to $100 gift card with iPad Pro, iPad Air, or iPad purchase ⌚️ Up to $50 gift card with Apple Watch SE purchase 🎧 Up to $75 gift card with AirPods Max, AirPods Pro 2, or AirPods 4 purchase 🔉 Up to $50 with Apple TV 4K or HomePod purchase 🎧 Up to $50 with select Beats purchase ⌨️ Up to $25 with select Apple Pencil and iPad keyboard accessories @iPhone #AppleStore #sale

🎅 New Year's gift idea 😁 🍏 Caviar, a brand known for its custom iPhones, has introduced Oracle, a custom Apple Vision Pro in gold and leather.

The Oracle with 256GB of storage is available at a starting price of $26,700. The 1TB version costs $29,700.

@iPhone #VisionPro

📺 Apple may be looking into developing its own TV 📺 The company is considering creating a branded TV, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggested. Apple has been thinking about releasing an Apple TV since Steve Jobs, but the company has decided to revisit the idea only now. 🏠 It's still not entirely clear what new Apple TV can offer: devices from LG, Samsung and other brands already offer support for AirPlay, HomeKit and Apple TV+. Most likely, Apple's main advantage will be their branded aesthetics and integration with the ecosystem, including other smart home devices. @iPhone #AppleTV

🔴 New OS with security updates Apple releases publicly available update with bug fixes and improvements: 📱 iOS 18.1.1 (22B91) ☁️ iPadOS 18.1.1 (22B91) 👨‍🏫 macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 (24B91 and 24B2091) 🍏 visionOS 2.1.1 (22N591) 💵 iOS 17.7.2 (21H221) 📈 iPadOS 17.7.2 (21H221) @iPhone #updates

📆 What refreshes to expect in coming 2025 In addition to the smart home display, software upgrades and a new version of AirTag, we should expect to see: ・updated versions of the iPad Air ・entry-level iPad – 8GB RAM, A18 Chipset, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 ・new Magic Keyboard for iPad ・MacBook Air with M4 ・Mac Pro with M5 SoC ・Mac Studio with M4 Ultra ・iPhone SE ✅ That’s not to mention the usual iPhone, Apple Watch and MacBook Pro refreshes of course. @iPhone #rumors #AppleEvent

🧭 Apple gears up to launch a new AirTag four years after the first model 📰 Bloomberg reports that the new version – code-named B589 — will look similar to the current model, but offer better range, bolster the onboard wireless chip and improve privacy. 🕵️‍♂️ That includes making it more difficult for someone to remove the speaker from the AirTag. Since the device launched in 2021, some people have unfortunately used the product as a tool for stalking — and removing the speaker makes it less likely for someone to discover a hidden AirTag. 👩‍⚖️ Apple is still contending with lawsuits over the device, and it’s in everyone’s interest to make the new model more tamper-proof. @iPhone #AirTag