The leak: A leaked photo of official iPhone cases reveals the naming for Apple’s 2020 lineup, courtesy of DuanRui.
Our take: This looks legitimate to me, and it aligns precisely with what L0vetodream (88.7% accurate) shared earlier this month. mini, in all lowercase, will be the name of Apple’s 5.4-inch iPhone 12.
The news: Apple just released the first supplemental update to iOS 14 with a number of bug fixes and improvements.
The main fixes:
And some other tweaks:
Our take: I don’t think we’ll be seeing a lot of these updates this year: iOS 14 is already so stable. But good to see Apple jumping on some initial, minor issues immediately.
The rumor: Apple’s next event may be taking place on October 13, according to AppleInsider (not yet rated).
Our take: Privately, AppleTrack heard something was happening around this time, too. And it sounds about right. Apple said the new iPhones would be coming “a few weeks later” than usual. That being said, there’s only been one October iPhone event before: marketing wise, wouldn’t it make more sense to do the iPhone 12 event…on the 12th?
The rumor: Apple is planning to update the iPad Pro for a second time this year, according to Ming-Chi Kuo (74.6% accurate).
Our take: Although rumors or a second iPad Pro refresh this year died down recently, Kuo generally has a pretty good pulse on whether or not new products are coming. This will be a substantial iPad Pro update as we haven’t seen Mini-LED on an Apple product yet.
The news: 217 new emojis for release in 2021 have just been approved, according to Emojipedia.
Our take: This is the smallest year-over-year emoji update that I ever remember seeing. Still, the addition of new breathing, swirly eyes and in the clouds emojis certainly reflect life in the past year.
The news: The Apple Watch Series 6 is a very different watch than the Series 5, at least internally, according to a teardown by iFixit.
Our take: It’s always fascinating to learn what really changed on the inside of some new products. Super cool to see that there is a physically larger battery on the inside!
The leak: Apple’s naming for this year’s iPhone lineup will include a different moniker for the first time ever on the lineup, according to L0vetodream (88.7% accurate).
Here’s what the highly-accurate leaker thinks the naming will be:
Our take: Apple has never used ‘mini’ to describe an iPhone before. Where have we seen it? On the iPod, iPad and on the Mac. This seems like the perfect way to market it as it is the smallest higher-end iPhone in years.
The news: Just a day after releasing iOS 14 to the public, Apple seeded iOS 14.2 beta 1 to developers.
Apple’s first hardware event of the year didn’t include new iPhones. Here’s how sources are stacking up on the AppleTrack leaderboard after the Apple Watch and iPad focused keynote.
Note: As you may have noticed, no source is 100% accurate. That’s because all sources get some info right and some info wrong: do not harass anyone for their track record. The leaderboard functionality on AppleTrack is here only to help average enthusiasts better understand how likely a rumor really is.
As always, if you notice a discrepancy on someone’s record, let us know.
The news: Following yesterday’s release of iOS 14, Apple pushed out a new Xcode beta that directly references iOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2 and watchOS 7.1.
Our take: It’s a bit odd that Apple is publicly referencing iOS 14.2 with no mention anywhere of iOS 14.1. It’s hard to decipher what’s up here, but perhaps they’re just getting a head-start on development for that update.
The fun: Alongside the release of iOS 14 earlier, Apple released high-resolution versions of the marketing wallpapers for the brand new iPad Air.
Our take: It’s hard to pick a favorite here, but I think I’m going with the multi-color gray variants.
