The latest Autians take advantage of the beach (small veinards), the locals are soon recovering their beaches, and the Apple developers … are the nose in the handlebars to give us the final version of iOS 26 and its cousins. And further? If there is no doubt that the thinking heads have taken advantage of their summer, it is just as certain that they are already preparing the future. And in the guessing game, Mark Gurman tells us a little more about the future.
Material Girl (materialist girl)
While the iPhone quietly slides over its eighteenth year (congratulations, it will be able to spend the permit), it must be admitted that the last years have been rather calm innovations. A small touch -up there, a small change of material here, a larger photo sensor … But the surprise effect is no longer, and customers have been queuing for all night in front of the local Apple Store to recover the new version in the early morning.
This little cushy life does not make Apple’s business, which would still like more sales, market share, and in the end, dollars. And it intends to shake the coconut palm this year. Thus should be presented on September 9 a newcomer to the family, which should resume the same recipe as its cousin MacBook Air in 2008: the iPhone Air.
Scheduled to take the place of the iPhone 16 Plus in the range, it swaps a few characteristics, such as a thinner battery or a less efficient photo sensor for a finesse and absolute lightness. He should be the star of the next Keynote, especially since the iPhone 17, 17 pro and 17 pro Max should not change enormously compared to their predecessors.
iPhone 17, 17 pro (max), 17 air: price, technical sheet, release date … All the new features according to rumors
In 2026, another big piece should point the tip of its nose: the foldable iPhone. Since the time that this rumor has existed, and that competitors like Samsung have released their versions, Apple should finally enter the dance.
As this kind of device is preparing very in advance, its characteristics are apparently already frozen in the Cupertino offices. Thus, the foldable iPhone should receive no less than five lenses (one on the front, one on the internal screen and three at the rear), and like the iPhone Air, it should ignore the SIM drawer. More surprisingly, according to Mark Gurman, it should inaugurate the comeback of Touch ID: it is easily imaginable that it is easier to integrate a fingerprint sensor on the side of the device rather than putting the sensors and all the necessary equipment with double ID ID, to be available both open and closed.
The device should also include Modem C2, led to be Apple’s first internal modem to be able to fight on equal arms with Qualcomm in terms of pure performance. Design level, Apple would work solely on black and white variations, even if this point can more easily evolve than internal characteristics.
The iPhone 2027 would be the culmination of Apple’s dream since the 2007 first model
For 2027? 2027, let’s see these are 20 years of the iPhone! If no specific visual exists, all rumors show an iPhone that gives pride of place to glass, with an curved design that would perfectly go with the new “Liquid Glass” language used for iOS.
Jump (Saut)
It will be understood, in the next three years the iPhone cut the lion’s share. But it is not that Apple forgets the rest of his devices. Simply, at least for the end of 2025, they should only make small jumps. The iPad Pro should adopt the M5 processor, new AirPods Pro (probably with heart rate sensor) should appear, as well as new HomePod Mini and a new Apple TV.
For the first half of 2026, Apple should release the next iPhone 17th, as well as a new version of iPad and iPad Air. The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should receive the M5 chip in turn. Some small bonuses are in the drawers, such as a possible new Display studio.
Of course, the screen HomePod should finally appear. Expected at the turn, it should open a new era at Apple, coming to compete frontally Amazon and Google in the field of connected house. It should contain a new homemade bone, called Charismatic, which will also equip the robotic arm version, scheduled for a little later.
Further in time, other things are planned, without having specific dates: connected glasses to compete with Meta, AirPods Pro with integrated camera, but also a cheaper and lighter pro vision, security cameras, but also … a hybrid between iPad and Mac, with a gigantic foldable screen.
American Life (American life)
All this debauchery of equipment is very beautiful, but we should not forget the services. And clearly, Apple does not forget them: after having released Applecare One in the USA in July, allowing for 20 dollars to protect up to three aircraft, Cupertino has increased the price of Apple TV+ from $ 9.99 to $ 12.99 … And it only makes very little doubts that the increase will quickly cross the Atlantic.
Apple would also have in the boxes a health+service, which would give health advice and exercise ideas based on an AI, which would go to nutrition and medical suggestions.
Open Your Heart (opens your heart)
Speaking of AI, Apple finds itself in a difficult position because of its delay in the field. To the point that it may have to open up to other engines to catch up with it, although it continues to try the home solution.
Siri motorized by Gemini? Apple adds Google to the possibilities
Three choices arise in Cupertino: Anthropic, Google or Openai. If Apple initially started working with Claude (Anthropic), and has already integrated it into Xcode internally and allows developers to use it in parallel, Anthropic would be very greedy, and would ask for a much higher sum than Apple would want to spend.
Especially since it should not eliminate Google from the equation. The Mountain View firm certainly has some legal difficulties, which could put sticks in the wheels to a future AI Apple agreement with Apple, but the two have been getting along for years now, and know how to work together, whether at the legal level as at the development level. To perfect the table, it would be an opportunity to create a new basic contract, and thus review the agreement concerning the search engine which makes American justice tick.
Hung Up (Accro)
The next few years promise many surprises from Apple … What to continue to make its customers addicted? Nothing is engraved, proof is the commercial failure of the pro vision, but it is clear that Cupertino has some surprises in reserve. In the meantime, I wish you a good week, and next Sunday!
- Say Siri, put me from Madonna.
- Before or after surgery?
- Ouh the villain, it’s low, even coming from an AI! Not touched one of my teenage idols!
