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According to a report in The Elec, LG Innotek is working on an under-display camera (UDC) that might find its way into future iPhones.
But that could take some time. Apple reportedly wasn’t happy with recent component samples it was sent, and one analyst thinks the iPhone won’t get a UDC until 2027 (though the Face ID cutout could disappear and move under the screen earlier in 2025).

As MacRumors writes, Apple designated the original iPhone SE “vintage” today. The 2016 budget phone crammed the A9 chip — same as Apple’s priciest model at the time — into the flat sides, metal back, and chamfered edges of the 5S.

The first SE got its last major OS update with iOS 15 over two years ago, and it’s been five since Apple last sold it. Does that make our iPhone SE video review vintage, too?

This video from CNBC offers a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities where Apple tests its M-series chips for Macs and the A-series chips for iPhones. You can see the labs at around 3:21 and 7:05.

Aside from that, Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware, also hints at the possibility of the company developing its own modems, stating “We care about cellular and we have teams enabling that.”

Apple iOS 17.2 beta 4 update adds a feature that will finally allow you to change the default notification sound on your iPhone, as reported by MacRumors. The update includes a new “Default Alerts” option under Sounds and Haptics, meaning that app sounds that aren’t ringtones, text messages, voicemails, emails, calendars, reminders, or otherwise pre-assigned can be changed.

And for the silent phone fans, you can change the default haptic feedback for notifications, too.

It’s been a slow process, and Rest of World has a report detailing Foxconn’s struggle to ready iPhone 15 production for launch day at its Indian factory earlier this year. It’s a fascinating look behind the curtain, and it highlights the workforce of mostly young Indian women on the frontlines of the government’s “Make in India” initiative.

Sure, Apple, your holiday short film / ad was shot on iPhone and even edited on a MacBook Air. But I watched the behind-the-scenes video closely, and nowhere in there did it show the unending patience you’d need to shoot and stitch together all of the frames to make something that looks this impressive.

Just like a power adapter, you won’t find that in the box with a new phone, but fans of stop-motion animation will be glad someone did.

Apple will support RCS on iPhones in 2024, and the company confirmed to 9to5Mac on Thursday that RCS messages will show up as green bubbles.

Hopefully the huge benefits of RCS over SMS make the blue bubble vs. green bubble debate less of a thing, though.

Following an in-depth report from the Wall Street Journal in September, this update from Bloomberg may further explain why Apple recently extended its deal for Qualcomm modems.

It says Apple already delayed a plan to have the chips ready next year, and now they might not launch in new iPhones until the end of 2025 or in 2026. Issues mentioned include rewriting software it acquired from Intel (one person quoted anonymously said, “Why we thought we could take a failed project from Intel and somehow succeed is a mystery,” and avoiding infringing on Qualcomm’s patents.

Today is the deadline for Apple to argue to EU regulators that iMessage shouldn’t be designated as a core platform service.

It’s therefore extremely likely it revealed the iPhone will support RCS to please regulators, and not as a response to Nothing’s blue-bubble-on-Android news from yesterday. That’s not stopping CEO Carl Pei from taking a victory lap, earned or unearned. Never change, Carl.

Marking a year since Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite service became available in the US and Canada, anyone who activated their free trial prior to November 15th now has an additional year of free access.

If you haven’t done so already, here’s how to set it up.

$40 buys a mount that magnetically attaches your iPhone to your car’s vents, $80 gets a model that wirelessly charges your device in the process, and $60 gets a 70W dual USB-C GaN charger for your car. Nomad’s accessories can be a little pricey compared to some competitors, but their build quality can make them worthwhile.

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If you ever wondered what those symbols mean — and, like me, never bothered to look them up — now you can get that info right from your iPhone. (Thanks to 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva for alerting me of the feature)