iPhone 17 out in public, blockbuster earnings, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

Apple defied Wall Street with earnings, and almost in parallel, the company intentionally released the iOS 26 public beta and inadvertently showed us an iPhone 17. We talk about it all, on the AppleInsider Podcast.

A smartphone displaying a bearded person wearing blue mirrored sunglasses, set against an aerial view of a circular garden with trees, pathways, and a rainbow-colored object.

Inset: an iPhone 17 seen in the wild

If you ever doubted the rumors of the iPhone 17 range getting a camera bar — and originally, it did seem doubtful — then you have to accept now since one has been seen in the wild. It was spotted in just enough of a shaky long-distance shot that it’s spawned conspiracy theories, but it’s an iPhone with a camera bar.

And this week so many iPhones are going to have got the new iOS 26 for the first time as Apple released the public beta of it, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more. Don’t do it to yourself, though: wait until it’s all officially released around September.

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