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The phone is so thin, that the USBC port isn’t / can’t be centered on the Y-axis. The port is closer to the back of the phone than it is the front.

🔒 By the way, Apple plans to shrink the Dynamic Island notch in the iPhone 17 Pro Max, making it more compact. According to Weibo, the company will introduce “metalinza” technology for the Face ID module for the first time, allowing it to be hidden under the screen. As a result, Dynamic Island will shrink to a small “pill” cutout, and the usable display area will increase.

Apple will delay many new Siri features with Apple Intelligence support due to engineering and software bugs discovered during the testing phase. The new features for Siri were originally expected to launch with iOS/iPadOS 18.4 in April, but the release has now been delayed to 18.5, which will be released later this year. As Mark Gurman added, Apple can still add these new features in the iOS 18.4 beta, but they may not make it into the release, continuing testing in the beta as early as 18.5 for the final launch.

Scheduled for release by 2026 along with Macs on M5 chips, prototypes of the display codenamed “J427” are already being tested.
Also, as Ross Young added earlier, so far on the market displays with a resolution of 5120x2880 do not support 120 Hz, so it is likely that the novelty from Apple will also be with 60 Hz. That said, Thunderbolt 5 ports can support 120Hz at 5120x2880 resolution, so hope remains.

Next week's beta software for Apple Vision Pro will include Apple's first AI features, as well as an improved guest mode and a new app for viewing spatial content, 3D panoramas, and images.

You can choose to migrate apps, music, and other content you’ve purchased from Apple on a secondary Apple Account to a primary Apple Account. The secondary Apple Account might be an account that's only used for purchases. You’ll need to know the primary email address or phone number and password for both accounts, and neither account should be shared with anyone else.

Impact: A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

The iPhone SE 4 is unlikely to get a dedicated launch event. Instead, it is expected to be announced through a press release on Apple’s website. The company is also slated to introduce a pair of new Beats earbuds called PowerBeats Pro 2 on February 11, and the iPhone SE refresh might be announced around the same time.

ℹ️ The M5 chip is expected to retain about the same architecture as the M1 through M4 chips, with the GPU and CPU on the same die. However, M5 Pro chip, which will begin fabrication later in the spring, will also reportedly use TSMC's SoIC-MH layout process, an advanced method of vertically stacking semiconductors that will further improve heat control and performance.