Apple Loop: Mysterious New iPhone Discovered, Deleted Russian Apps Return, More iPhone 14 Pro Problems - Forbes

Taking a look backmost astatine different week of quality and headlines from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes a astonishing caller iPhone, iPhone 14 Plus accumulation woes, iPhone 14 Pro SIM paper problems, marque caller iPads, iPad Pros, and Apple TVs, the missing MacBook Pro launch, macOS and iPadOS updates, iPad Mini terms rises, and the instrumentality of Russian societal media to the App Store.

Apple Loop is present to punctual you of a fewer of the precise galore discussions that person happened astir Apple implicit the past 7 days (and you tin work my play digest of Android quality present connected Forbes).

iPhone SE 4 Suddenly Appears

The iPhone 15 whitethorn not beryllium the lone caller iPhone to motorboat successful 2023. The iPhone SE, which appeared to person settled into a two-year update cycle, is being prepared not lone for an aboriginal Q2 merchandise but a makeover that volition spot it determination towards the existent iPhone plan ethos with a afloat frontal display:

“...we tin expect the iPhone SE 4 to diagnostic a 6.1-inch show WITH a notch and travel successful 3 colors: Midnight, Starlight and Product RED. If you person eyes, you whitethorn person besides noticed that the caller iPhone SE looks eerily akin to the iPhone XR… yes, that’s the point. Apple tends to bull erstwhile generation’s iPhone plan for their SE refreshes and that’s precisely the lawsuit here."

(FrontPageTech).

iPhone 14 Plus Production Halted

Apple dropped the thought of an iPhone 14 Mini, alternatively moving successful the different absorption and returning to the iPhone Plus plan of a larger-screened model. It looks bully connected paper, but the income are not there… truthful overmuch truthful that accumulation is reportedly being halted, and much effort placed connected the ‘only somewhat much expensive’ iPhone 14 Pro:

"Possible factors astatine play present see the rising outgo of mundane surviving owed to ostentation and a weaker than mean planetary system for a fig of factors. Apple has besides positioned the iPhone 14 Plus astatine a logical but pugnacious terms point; iPhone 14 costs $799, and has a reasonably ample display. iPhone 14 Plus for $899 has an adjacent larger display, but nary different differences. That compares to iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, priced astatine $999 and $1099 respectively, which diagnostic much precocious camera systems and a redesigned sensor layout."

(9to5Mac).

New iPhone 14 Owners Have Massive SIM Card Issues

Users of the caller iPhone 14 household of handsets are reporting issues astir their SIM cards, which are abruptly being reported arsenic ‘Not Supported’; though hard resets are fixing the problem, this isn’t an attack being recommended. One imaginable origin of this whitethorn beryllium the determination to enactment eSIM-only iPhones, but arsenic yet, each we cognize is that Apple is alert of the issue, but there’s nary denotation of a timescale for the fix:

"In a memo sent to authorized retailers, archetypal seen by MacRumors and which I person subsequently seen and verified via an Apple partner, Apple has acknowledged a wide reported bug with SIMs. Affected iPhone 14 models show a “SIM Not Supported” mistake message, past the phones freeze, rendering them unusable until they are hard reset."

(Forbes).

New iPads For Many

The large quality from Apple this week was a flurry of property releases announcing caller hardware, astir notably the caller tablets. First up is the iPad Pro, and Apple’s propulsion to manus the nonrecreational tablet arsenic equivalent to a laptop… aft all, its sporting the aforesaid M2 chipset arsenic the caller MacBook Air!

"The iPad Pro besides got a revision today, arsenic some the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models were bumped to the caller M2 processor, which includes hardware-accelerated ProRes encoding and decoding. Additionally, they adhd enactment for the faster Wi-Fi 6E protocol and Bluetooth 5.3, arsenic good arsenic a caller “Apple Pencil hover” mode that tin observe the Pencil’s tallness astatine up to 12mm supra the display, and let the iPad to respond accordingly."

(SixColors).

An update to the regular iPad was besides launched. As with different iPads, the exemplary utilized USB-C for connectivity (rather than Apple’s proprietary lightning port) arsenic good arsenic bumping the camera up to 4K solution on with the surface resolution. Processor omniscient though, it lags down the iPhone Pro’s A16 chipset, alternatively rolling with 20202’s A14. Good enough, but don’t expect miracles:

"Coming successful astatine 10.9 inches, the iPad (10th generation) has the largest surface Apple has ever enactment connected a modular iPad. It's the archetypal clip successful 3 generations that Apple has upgraded the surface size — the 7th, 8th, and 9th generations each came successful astatine 10.2 inches. This is besides the archetypal modular iPad to person a Liquid Retina show alternatively of a regular Retina display. This means higher resolutions, and it'll beryllium astir intolerable to spot the disagreement betwixt the pixels connected your screen."

(Insider).

Apple TV Has A New Resolution

Also successful the premix is simply a caller variation of Apple TV. Moving up to connection 4K, it provides entree to Apple’s gated products, including Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, Apple TV, and wider offerings specified arsenic Apple Music and respective third-party online services:

"The caller Apple TV 4K is disposable successful 2 configurations: the Apple TV 4K with Wi-Fi, which offers 64 GB of retention and retails astatine $129, positive the Apple TV 4K with Wi-Fi + Ethernet, which offers 128 GB of retention and retails astatine $149. You tin bid some present connected the Apple tract with availability opening Friday, November 4."

(ZDNet).

One Of Our MacBooks Is Missing

A much absorbing question aft Apple’s “launch by property release” time is what was not released. The expected update to the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops was not connected show. They are apt being shunted elsewhere to springiness the iPad Pro, powered by the desktop-class M2, clip successful the spotlight. But wherever does that permission the communicative of these almighty macOS machines?

"It is Apple’s communicative to tell, and nary uncertainty the geekerati volition spot the property releases erstwhile they popular up successful the Apple Newsroom. Yet I can’t assistance feeling that delivering “the champion high-performance laptop successful a mode that lone Apple can” is simply a communicative that needs to beryllium told acold and wide and complements the Mac Pro ending alternatively than beryllium hidden distant to let for the Mac Pro to connection a quiescent and niche denouement."

(Forbes).

New macOS and iPadOS Versions Incoming

The caller builds of the operating systems are expected connected October 24th. Given the non-appearance of the MacBook Pro, possibly the hardware for the caller bundle volition get astatine the aforesaid time?

"The iPadOS 16 update runs connected each iPad Pros, the 5th-generation iPad and later, the fifth-generation iPad mini and later, and the 3rd-generation iPad Air and later, dropping enactment for the venerable iPad Air 2 and a fistful of different models (it volition besides vessel connected each the caller iPads Apple announced today). The macOS Ventura update mostly requires a Mac released successful 2017 oregon later, dropping enactment for assorted models released betwixt 2013 and 2016."

(Ars Technica).

iPad Mini Price Shoots Up

Its American basal whitethorn not notice, but Apple has bumped up the iPad Mini prices astir the satellite - to look astatine the UK, the 64 GB exemplary moves from £479 to £569, a adjacent 20 percent increase. What’s going on? Officially, we don’t know:

"Apple gave nary crushed for the terms hikes extracurricular the US, but they could beryllium linked to the beardown dollar combined with rising ostentation and accrued costs, though the terms of astir different latest-gen devices successful Apple's hardware merchandise lineup person remained constant."

(MacRumors).

And Finally...

Previously, Apple had removed societal web apps from a fig of cardinal Russian networks. The equivalents to Gmail and Facebook disappeared 3 weeks ago, with nods towards UK sanctions being the reason. Now, with small explanation, the apps are back.

"It wasn't instantly wide wherefore Apple restored the apps, since ownership of VKontake and Mail.ru has not changed since the apps were removed, and the enactment of Gazprombank and Sberbank stay sanctioned by the British government. However, it's imaginable Apple's determination was related to the usage of some services by activists."

(MacRumors).

Apple Loop brings you 7 days worthy of highlights each play present connected Forbes. Don’t hide to travel maine truthful you don’t miss immoderate sum successful the future. Last week’s Apple Loop tin beryllium work here, oregon this week’s variation of Loop’s sister column, Android Circuit, is besides disposable connected Forbes.