Abstract created by Good Solutions AI
In abstract:
- Macworld experiences Apple is predicted to launch new MacBook Professional fashions with M5 Professional and M5 Max chips in the course of the macOS 26.3 timeframe, alongside MacBook Air updates.
- February brings new Apple TV+ collection together with ‘Eternity’ and returning seasons, plus Apple Arcade video games like ‘Sid Meier’s Civilization VII’ with Imaginative and prescient Professional help.
- Enhanced Siri capabilities will arrive with OS 26.4 betas, that includes Google’s Gemini basis mannequin for improved display screen understanding and in-app actions.
February just isn’t typically a really thrilling month for Apple releases—the larger spring releases typically are available in March. However this yr we have now a few key merchandise and updates value anticipating within the shortest month of the yr.
We might get the primary M5 Professional and Max merchandise, and an iOS/iPadOS/macOS beta that lastly consists of the all-new Siri. That makes for a extra thrilling February than we often get from Apple.
New {hardware} releases
On the {hardware} entrance, a number of tipsters at the moment are telling us that the MacBook Professional with M5 Professional and M5 Max chips is predicted to ship in the course of the macOS 26.3 timeframe, which we anticipate to enter huge launch as quickly as subsequent week.
The M5 Professional and Max can be distinctive in that they’re anticipated to make use of a brand new “SoIC-MH” course of that lets Apple put separate CPU and GPU dies on a single substrate in a single package deal collectively. This might probably let Apple combine and match CPU and GPU configurations, but it surely’s attainable the corporate is just pursuing this know-how to enhance yields (and subsequently prices) together with thermal efficiency.
There could be greater than new high-end MacBooks on the horizon as effectively. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman tells us that Apple has a brand new model of the Studio Show within the works and due within the first half of the yr, and present provide in retailers is dwindling. That’s often an indication that Apple plans to section out the present mannequin and change it. The brand new Studio Show is predicted to help ProMotion as much as 120Hz and HDR.
The M4 MacBook Air can also be due for an replace to the M5 quickly, however inventory ranges of that product stay regular, in order that replace would possibly land in March or April.
Apps and software program updates
We obtained the brand new Creator Studio bundle on the finish of January, and it got here with updates to just about all the apps inside—Ultimate Reduce Professional, Movement, Logic Professional, Pixelmator Professional, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform, Compressor, and MainStage. Therefore, there’s not a lot in the best way of latest functions or main updates to current ones anticipated in February.
However the working programs might get very fascinating. We’re on the verge of the OS 26.3 releases, which solely supply a number of minor refinements together with bug fixes and safety updates, in addition to the launch of latest MacBook Professionals (see above).
The discharge of 26.3 can be adopted virtually instantly by the 26.4 betas, which can be a giant launch. iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26.4 are supposed to provide us the long-overdue new-and-improved Siri based mostly on Google’s Gemini basis mannequin. It would reportedly use a customized construct older than the newest Gemini 3 launch that runs completely on Apple’s servers (with some easy duties operating on-device). Past the change in AI fashions, Siri will be capable of perceive what’s in your display screen, construct a private context profile of you to ship tailor-made responses, and take actions inside apps. It ought to be a giant leap.
Siri will nonetheless be Siri, although: a cellphone, pill, and PC assistant and never a full-scale chatbot with textual content enter and back-and-forth conversations. Within the OS 27 updates due this fall, Siri is predicted to get each one other massive basis mannequin improve and evolve into that type of chatbot.
Providers
Apple TV+
Listed below are the exhibits, collection, and flicks we anticipate to launch on Apple TV+ in February. If you wish to know what’s coming later, verify our full information to approaching Apple TV+ content material.
Eternity: In an afterlife the place souls have one week to determine the place to spend eternity, Joan is confronted with the not possible selection between the person she spent her life with and her old flame, who died younger and has waited many years for her to reach. February 13
The Final Factor He Advised Me (season 2): When Owen exhibits up after 5 years on the run, Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey discover themselves in a race to determine easy methods to reunite their household earlier than the previous catches as much as them. February 20
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (season 2): Season two will choose up with the destiny of Monarch — and the world — hanging within the stability. The dramatic saga reveals buried secrets and techniques that reunite our heroes (and villains) on Kong’s Cranium Island. February 27
Apple Arcade
Apple releases most Apple Arcade video games on the primary Friday of every month. Verify our Apple Arcade FAQ for a full listing of Apple Arcade video games and extra particulars on the service. Sometimes, video games are launched with no forewarning, however you’ll often see subsequent month’s releases listed within the Coming Quickly part.
Felicity’s Door: A rhythm recreation that takes you thru Tom and Felicity’s magical world of goals. February 5
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: The Arcade enhancing is the total base Civ 7 recreation, the newest within the storied technique collection. February 5
I Love Hue Too+: Coloration-based puzzle recreation. February 5
Retrocade: Play 10 basic arcade video games. The Imaginative and prescient Professional model permits you to stroll as much as digital arcade cupboards! February 5
