Apple's iPhone 18 Pro, arriving two years after the iPhone 16 Pro, features over 50 upgrades including a new A20 Pro chip, variable-aperture camera, smaller Dynamic Island, and record battery life of 36 hours. The $1,199 starting price is $200 higher than the iPhone 16 Pro's launch, though base storage doubled to 256GB. For iPhone 16 Pro owners, the cumulative changes across two generations—including design, display, cameras, and charging speed improvements—make it a worthwhile upgrade.
Apple's M6 chip benchmark results surfaced ahead of next week's Mac mini launch, showing approximately 12% single-core and 27% multi-core CPU performance gains over the M5 chip. The M6 achieves the fastest single-threaded CPU performance across all Macs and PCs in Geekbench 7, validating Apple's performance claims.
Apple announced iOS 27, releasing Monday September 14, featuring a major Siri AI overhaul powered by Apple Intelligence, along with enhanced Photos tools, Liquid Glass design refinements, performance improvements across the OS, iPhone Handoff for dual-device switching, and Apple Cash bill splitting.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max offer targeted upgrades over the iPhone 17 Pro models, featuring the faster A20 Pro chip with improved AI performance, a variable-aperture Main camera with 50% better low-light performance, and enhanced video capabilities including 4K Dolby Vision at 60 fps. Battery life increases to 36 hours (Pro) and 45 hours (Pro Max), with faster wired charging and a higher $1,199 starting price.
Early Geekbench results show the A20 Pro chip in iPhone 18 Pro models delivers 21-23% faster single-core and 27-28% faster multi-core performance than the A19 Pro, with graphics gains of 38-40% from the new 7-core GPU. Built on a 2-nanometer process, the chip features a six-core CPU and improved thermal design for better sustained performance.
Apple released release candidate versions of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 for developer and public beta testing, marking the final testing phase before public launch. iOS 27 introduces Siri AI, an intelligent chatbot with personal data integration, alongside new Apple Intelligence features across Photos, Safari, Shortcuts, Wallet, and Passwords, plus performance improvements and UI enhancements including customizable Liquid Glass transparency.
Apple unveiled the A20 Pro, its first 2nm smartphone chip for the iPhone 18 Pro models, featuring a 6-core CPU with up to 20% faster performance, a redesigned 7-core GPU with 40% faster graphics, and an enhanced Neural Engine with 2x compute for on-device AI processing. The chip includes custom thermal packaging inspired by Apple's M-series and delivers 40% more sustained performance than the previous A19 Pro.