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Apple's first foldable is already a scalping target. Within hours of pre-orders opening and delivery estimates sliding into 2027, iPhone Duo orders began changing hands on eBay at prices far above Apple's list prices, MacRumors reports.

According to MacRumors, Max Tech's Vadim Yuryev spotted the listings. One sold listing was a 2TB iPhone Duo in Night Sky, a configuration Apple sells for $3,199. It reportedly fetched about $5,000, a premium of roughly $1,800. A second listing, described by the seller as a "confirmed pre-order" for a 1TB Night Sky model, sold for $4,400. Apple's price for that configuration is $2,599.

Verizon has put a price on iPhone Handoff, the iOS 27 feature that lets one phone number be shared across two iPhones. In an announcement tied to the iPhone Duo, the carrier said the feature will be available for $10 per month on compatible iPhone models running iOS 27. That is double what T-Mobile charges, according to reporting from 9to5Mac and MacRumors.

Apple introduced the feature with iOS 27 and detailed it at its September event. It allows a single number to live on two iPhones, with the user switching which device is active. Only one iPhone can use the number at a time. Verizon says customers will be able to change the active device whenever they like while keeping full 5G access.

Apple has pulled the redesigned Health app from the latest iOS 27.2 developer beta, replacing it with a notice that the new features will arrive in a future update.

Apple seeded iOS 27.2 beta 4 to developers on Tuesday, October 13, with a public beta following later that day. According to MacRumors, testers who install the build now see a pop-up in the Health app saying the new app features will come in a future update. Data collected while using the redesigned app during the beta remains available in the Settings app, the outlet reports.

The U.S. Department of Justice and Apple are reportedly exploring a negotiated end to the government's antitrust lawsuit over the iPhone, and developers who have been consulted are doubtful that any deal would change much. MacRumors reported the details on October 16, citing reporting by The Information.

The DOJ sued Apple in March 2024, alleging that restrictions affecting messaging, digital wallets, smartwatches, cloud gaming and multipurpose apps help the company protect an unlawful smartphone monopoly. Apple has rejected the allegations and has argued that the remedies sought would undermine its ability to design products that work closely together.

Apple has tightened the App Store Review Guidelines to address AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery and apps that change behavior after they pass review. The company announced the update on its developer news page on October 16.

Guideline 1.2, which covers user-generated content, now explicitly names nonconsensual intimate imagery, including imagery produced with AI tools. According to Apple, apps must proactively prevent and remove this kind of content. Developers who fail to put adequate safeguards in place, or who do not fix violations after being notified, risk breaking the Developer Code of Conduct and being removed from the App Store.

iPhone Duo buyers who did not order in the first minutes of pre-orders are now looking at a very long wait. MacRumors reported on October 16 that every configuration of the foldable showed a delivery estimate of January 25 on Apple's U.S. online store by about 5:30 a.m. PT, roughly half an hour after pre-orders opened.

According to MacRumors, customers who ordered right at 5 a.m. PT were given a delivery date of Friday, October 23, which is launch day. Within minutes, however, all eight configurations, in Star White and Night Sky with 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB of storage, moved to the same late-January date. The report found no difference between colors or capacities.

An early benchmark result attributed to the iPhone Duo has appeared, giving a first look at how Apple's foldable performs ahead of its October 23 launch, MacRumors reports.

According to the report, published October 14, the result is a Geekbench 7 entry for a device with the model identifier iPhone19,4, running iOS 27.1. It lists a single-core score of 3,986 and a multi-core score of 11,067. The listing shows a 6-core CPU and a 7-core GPU configuration for the A20 Pro, a chip built on a 2-nanometer process, with a base frequency of 4.93GHz. The same base frequency has appeared in benchmark results for the iPhone 18 Pro.

Apple CEO John Ternus has used a new interview with TIME to explain why Apple took so long to enter the foldable market, describing some early rival foldables as feeling "kind of cheap and crappy," according to MacRumors and 9to5Mac, which summarized the piece.

Ternus is on the cover of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 issue, which MacRumors says is due October 26. The interview centers on the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable, which opens for pre-orders today, October 16, ahead of its October 23 on-sale date.

According to 9to5Mac's reading of the interview, Ternus was involved in Apple's foldable research as far back as 2011, when he and five other engineers filed a patent application covering the batteries and circuit boards such a device might need…

A federal judge has granted most of Apple's request for early discovery in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, the AI hardware startup io Products and two former Apple employees, according to a report from 9to5Mac on the October 13 ruling.

Apple filed the suit around July 10, 2026. It names former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan, along with OpenAI and io Products. Apple alleges that the two ex-employees improperly accessed or used confidential information about Apple's products and technologies to help OpenAI's consumer hardware effort, and that information was also obtained from Apple employees during recruiting interviews.

Apple has detailed how customers can pay for and accessorise the iPhone Duo as pre-orders open today, October 16, at 5 a.m. PT on apple.com and in the Apple Store app. According to an updated Apple Newsroom post, buyers can choose home delivery or pickup at a local Apple Store.

Apple says eligible iPhone 13 or later models can receive instant trade-in credit ranging from $175 to $885, which can also reduce monthly payments. Through the Apple Upgrade programme, which is run with Klarna, customers can choose a 12- or 24-month lease; Apple lists a 24-month lease from $57.99 per month, before taxes and trade-in credit. Apple Card Monthly Installments are offered at 0% APR in the U.S., with 3% Daily Cash earned up front.

Apple is preparing a large in-store push for the iPhone Duo, but buyers may find stock tight, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. His reporting, relayed by MacRumors on October 11, describes how Apple Stores are being set up ahead of the foldable's arrival. These are reported details, not Apple announcements.

Gurman says Apple will dedicate a section of its Fifth Avenue flagship in New York to the iPhone Duo. Most other locations are said to be adding a spotlight table built on Apple's white display tables with central posts, plus a new fixture that shows the phone folding and unfolding.

Apple is reportedly preparing to bring Apple Intelligence to mainland China for the first time, with a launch tied to iOS 27.3 in December. The plan has not been announced by Apple, and the details below come from press reports.

According to MacRumors, which cites an earlier Bloomberg report, the rollout would start with a limited set of features. Basic tools such as photo editing would be included, while Siri AI would not be part of the initial release. Image Playground and the newer version of Genmoji are also said to be missing, and text generation tools would be restricted.