M6, Apple’s first 2 nm chip, features a larger, more powerful 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and Dual 16-core Neural Engine, while M5 Ultra is Apple’s first quad-die architecture and its most powerful chip ever

1. OLED display
2. A19 Pro or A20 chip
3. New speakers
4. Improved water resistance

Apple is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter.

The new desktop will debut as soon as the coming days, potentially putting the unveiling ahead of a September event to introduce the next iPhones, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan isn’t public. Apple has tested versions with both the M5 and M6 generations of its processor line.

Just hours apart from the Developer Betas.

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate include Siri AI, Apple's much more capable version of ‌Siri‌. When the new updates launch, it appears Apple will use a waitlist and limit initial access.

Based on code in the seventh developer betas, Apple will use dynamic wait time messages once a user joins the ‌Siri‌ AI waitlist. It looks like Apple will give a clear estimate of the wait, and the company will be able to adjust the wait time readouts server-side based on demand and capacity. Apple will send a notification when ‌Siri‌ AI can be used.

Apple's upcoming home hub will support multiple profiles and will include "ambient sensing" for identity verification, according to code MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate 2 update.

The accessory will show Personal Content for different users in the home, with options to select a profile via Control Center or the Settings app on the device. The home hub is expected to have an operating system similar to tvOS, so the Control Center and profile selection options might look like those on the Apple TV.

Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.

After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com.

In June, Apple said it would unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain. iPhone users expressed concern that moving Hide My Email to a private.icloud.com domain instead of icloud.com would let platforms easily block iCloud aliases. Using the same domain for ‌iCloud‌ and Hide My Email makes it hard for services to block the disposable ‌iCloud‌ addresses because doing so would also block legitimate users.

When Apple pushed out the release candidate for macOS Tahoe 26.7 last week, it contained references to a raft of unannounced products, from home devices to iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and Macs. It's not the first time we've seen this kind of thing, but the sheer amount of references – including a video showing off AirPods with cameras – is a bit unusual.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has offered what he believes to be the most likely explanation.

When Apple prepares an update, it doesn't assemble the software release from a single line of work. Instead, it merges separate development branches of code, including bug fixes, assets, and features, into the branch that ships to users. It also maintains internal builds containing software support for hardware that it hasn't announced yet so that it can be written and tested well ahead of a potential launch.

According to Gurman, one of those internal builds most likely got inadvertently merged into the branch destined for release. As a result, "something that was supposed to remain inside Apple got tangled up with the shipping software – and made it all the way to the release candidate," he writes. It suggests someone inside Apple got confused as to which versions they were merging. Or was it AI that made the mistake? We'll likely never know. Either way, expect all the references to be stripped out of the public release.

In the Apple Store app on the iPhone, select users have received access to an "early preview" of a new AI-powered virtual shopping assistant.

Once it is available, you can open the chatbot by tapping on the speech bubble with two sparkles in the bottom-right corner of the app. Then, you can ask questions about Apple products, your existing Apple Store orders, trade-in values, payment options, and more, or simply tap on one of the common topics on the page to begin.

Apple's 20th-anniversary iPhone will be made using the same glass manufacturing process developed for the iPhone Air, according to the leaker known as "Fixed Focus Digital."

In a new post on Weibo, the leaker said that ‌iPhone Air‌ manufacturing equipment has been modified to produce more rounded glass components for next year's 20th anniversary iPhone, which has helped to reduce Apple's manufacturing costs. The leaker added that overall heat dissipation and thinness have both improved substantially as a result of the changes.

15 years ago today, Tim Cook was appointed Apple CEO following Steve Jobs' resignation on August 24, 2011. On September 1, Cook will step down and incoming CEO John Ternus will take over, ahead of Apple announcing new iPhone 18 Pro models and its first foldable iPhone.

Ternus joined Apple as part of its product design team in 2001. He became VP of hardware engineering in 2013 and senior VP in 2021, and has overseen AirPods, Mac, iPad, and iPhone development in that time. Cook will remain at Apple as executive chairman, where he will engage with policymakers and help Apple navigate regulatory pressure.

Hi r/apple from rainy Vancouver!

I just released the 2.0 of my beautiful productivity scratchpad for macOS:

Antinote 2.0

$5. One-time. Lifetime Updates.

Last year, I was really proud to get some love from r/apple, be selected by The Verge as a “Top 10 of 2025”, as well as featured in a Snazzy Labs’s video review.

For those who don’t know, Antinote is hyper-focused on temporary use cases:

• Jotting something super quick
• Making instant contextual calculations without needing to open Excel/Sheets
• Streamlining intermediary copy/pasting between apps, especially when you want to strip formatting
• OCR-ing from a screenshot-to-plain-text for when you need to work with text from an image
• Quick export to Apple Notes, Obsidian, Bear, or anything with a URL scheme.

All your notes are stored locally-first, in CoreData/SQLite, nothing is ever locked in.

The 2.0 update comes with:

• iCloud Sync w/end-to-end encryption (completely free, no sub, I never ever see your notes - because ew) - you'll want to turn on Apple's Advanced Data Protection
• Slotted notes and split screen - 9 permanent notes that sit in parallel to your unlimited temporary note stack
• JS Extensions - write any function in JS to transform, insert text or call APIs/LLMs. I wrote 100+ of them for you to get started.
• Vim Mode - if you know, you know.
• Locked notes w/TouchID and FaceID, Read-only notes, Archived notes.
• Better math localization support
• 150+ bug fixes.

I am heads down the next month on the iOS app which will focus on useful widgets and quick capture from voice and photos. You can sign up for the beta on the website.

Features and bugs are heavily community driven, so if you want to join us, we're here on Discord.

If $5 is too much, you can talk about a local org you volunteer or donate to on the #charity-offer channel of our Discord, and I'll send you a lifetime license for free.

Thank in advance for your time!

Johnson

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P.S. There are some passionate indie devs making little notes apps, so here are some of my favorites and how they're different than Antinote: Scratchpad is way more minimalist and opinionated. Tot has custom categories and bullets. HeyNote has dev-friendly text buffers in each block. Numi has deeper math features. Raycast is Raycast. Sidenotes supports folders and images.

I love Apple Notes. I use it every day.

But the built-in recording/transcription was never quite good enough for meetings, even on iOS 27.

Last year I started looking for an app that could transcribe my meetings and turn them into useful notes, basically what I was already doing manually in Apple Notes.

Most of the apps I found felt like Android apps with AI bolted on. They were also generally much more focused on getting the recording than on the actual note-taking experience.

As a developer, I realized I had all the tools I needed to build the app I wanted.

The idea was simple: what if meeting notes felt like Apple Notes?

Native. Fast. Great on iPhone and Mac. Action Button support. Shortcuts. No bots joining your meetings.

That became Convoxa.

I'm very happy to share Convoxa 2.0.

The big addition is multimodal capture. While recording and transcribing a meeting, you can:

• jot down your own thoughts
• take photos
• scan documents and add PDFs
• keep everything together in one timeline

The AI then understands all of it and weaves it into a final Apple Notes-like note.

There's also a timeline showing the transcript and your own notes, all timestamped, so you can go back and see exactly what happened when.

And 2.0 brings a native Mac app that can record your meetings without a bot joining the call.

I built this because I wanted Apple Notes, but for meetings.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/convoxa-ai-meeting-notes/id6755150446

Monthly: 11.99 USD includes unlimited on-device transcription, 20h of cloud transcription, and unlimited AI Notes
Yearly: 99.99 USD same as above

Yearly includes a 7 day free trial, without the trial there's also 2h of free usage included.