Apple 2027 rumors: AirPods with cameras for AI and the second folding iPhone

Now that we’re clear of WWDC and each of the caller AI-powered features coming to Apple’s platforms, Bloomberg newsman Mark Gurman has much specifications astir rumored caller hardware, for illustration the camera-equipped AirPods he’d previously written about. He says they are presently connected schedule for a precocious 2027 launch, and that while we’re checking retired beta releases for this fall’s iOS 27 update, the caller earbuds are internally being tested pinch adjacent year’s update, iOS 28.

With cameras mounted successful their stems and lights to bespeak erstwhile information is being uploaded to the cloud, they could springiness the upgraded type of Siri “visual context” astir your surroundings, earlier Apple yet releases its first brace of smart glasses.

Also mentioned is simply a second-generation foldable phone to travel the exemplary that he says we tin expect to spot this fall, arsenic an denotation that Apple will beryllium committed to the caller merchandise category, and, hopefully, find moreover amended ways to return advantage of the other screens than we’ve seen successful the class truthful far. I for illustration my Pixel 10 Pro Fold, but betwixt apps that neglect to set for the bigger surface and a smaller artillery than the largest modular Pixel 10, it adds a batch of compromises and a hefty price.

Gurman besides mentioned the long-rumored “20th anniversary” iPhone, dubbed V73 and V74, which he says will travel this year’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max offering akin sizes, but adding a “nearly edge-to-edge display, pinch curved solid that wraps astir the sides.”

Meanwhile, the modular iPhone 18 whitethorn not motorboat until adjacent year, while moving connected an A20 bid spot akin to phones planned for merchandise this fall, earlier the different 2027 phones jump to a 2nm A21 chip, pinch plans to displacement to 1.4nm exertion for the A22 Pro, pinch Apple “considering” utilizing Intel to grip immoderate accumulation on pinch its accustomed source, TSMC.

This seems to statement up pinch the rumors of the past fewer years that previewed the presence of the skinny iPhone Air. But pinch John Ternus taking complete arsenic Apple’s CEO, a RAM and constituent shortage looming complete everything, and AI everywhere, moreover solidly rumored plans could change.