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Sebastiaan de With from the Halide / Lux Camera team reviewed the iPhone 16e’s camera, and he captured some really great shots. Loved reading this.

After admitting that AI-powered upgrades to Siri are taking “longer than we thought,” Apple has added a disclaimer to its iPhone 16, 16E, and 16 Pro product pages warning that some features “will be available with a future software update.”

A new batch of Apple security updates today that includes iOS 18.3.2 and macOS 15.3.2 might re-enable Apple Intelligence (again), but it also supplements an issue first addressed in iOS 17.2, where “Maliciously crafted web content may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox,” according to an Apple update note spotted by 9to5Mac.

In the now-private YouTube video, The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey is shown asking Siri “the name of the person they had a meeting with the previous month at a specific restaurant,” as 9to5Mac puts it.

Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple’s first foldable will drop Face ID and add a Touch ID button instead, to help hit 4.5–4.8mm unfolded thickness (close to the 4.2mm world’s thinnest). He expects two rear cameras, a late 2026 launch, and a price tag north of $2,000. Just take it with a pinch of salt, as Kuo says Apple hasn’t finalized the specs yet — not to mention he’s been wrong about their foldables before.

As MacRumors points out, with today’s iPad announcements and the recent iPhone 16E launch, Apple no longer sells new iPhones or iPads with 64GB of base storage. Finally.

Some Mint Mobile users on Reddit found that they can enable RCS on the second iOS 18.4 developer beta, Android Authority reports. Another Redditor says the beta could enable RCS for other T-Mobile MVNOs, too.

The team at iFixit has exposed the guts — and big battery — of Apple’s newly-launched iPhone 16E in a new video. The video also shows that Apple has brought over the iPhone 16’s electrically charged battery replacement process to its newest phone. And if you’d prefer to see the text teardown with photos, here’s a link to that.

Two weeks after Apple announced its first 5G modem touting unmatched power efficiency in the iPhone 16E, its former supplier has announced its 8th gen 5G modem-to-antenna solution which includes mmWave support for gigabit throughput unlike Apple’s C1 modem. The Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF “sets new standards for 5G and gives connectivity leadership to the Android ecosystem.”

The new row comes courtesy of Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 beta, but it only seems to show up on cars with larger displays. A welcome change while we wait for CarPlay 2 to arrive... someday.

The iOS 18.4 beta adds a new Ambient Music category to the Control Center, bringing Chill, Productivity, Sleep, and Wellbeing buttons that let you start an Apple Music playlist with a swipe and tap.

Apple’s $19 screen-cleaning cloth is still a compatibility champion and perfectly capable of wiping your fingerprint smudges off of the newest iPhone.

While the phone supports wireless charging and is compatible with Qi chargers, per the iPhone 16E tech specs page, it apparently won’t magnetically snap into a MagSafe charger on its own or with one of Apple’s official cases.

9to5Mac spotted a Hackintosh Reddit community post in which user OceanDepth95028 showed off what they say is a near-total replacement of the 2013 Windows phone with the guts of a 3rd-gen iPhone SE.

Apple Intelligence is to be powered primarily by Alibaba, with a few features — including Visual Intelligence — handled by Baidu, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s own software will handle on-device processing, with Alibaba and Baidu stepping in for server-side tasks, including censorship.