iPhone Ultra leaks, more
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, May 21st, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by BitWarden. |
| 0:12.3 | Leading off today, new reports from Waybo Leaker Instant Digital, who accurately provides a lot of Apple rumors, has new details on the iPhone Ultras production status, |
| 0:22.3 | release timing, and display. The iPhone Ultra, which will be Apple's first foldable iPhone, |
| 0:27.6 | is reportedly in trial production now, and that has reportedly come with good news and bad |
| 0:33.4 | news so far. First, Apple's goal of a crease-free display for the iPhone Ultra has been |
| 0:39.1 | achieved, a key breakthrough for the entire foldable smartphone industry. The story says that |
| 0:45.5 | current test results show that Apple has achieved a visually crease-free state with long-term |
| 0:51.2 | stability. Most other foldable phones historically have shown a noticeable crease down the middle when unfolded. |
| 0:58.8 | However, the iPhone Ultras hinge is apparently struggling to hit Apple's quality standards. |
| 1:04.6 | The rumor says that its reliability after prolonged high-frequency opening and closing |
| 1:09.6 | has consistently fallen short of Apple's |
| 1:12.4 | quality control standards so far. This is slowing down Apple's plans to put the iPhone |
| 1:17.9 | Ultra in mass production and is causing a delay to the production process. But a follow-up report |
| 1:24.0 | says that Apple is still on track for a September debut. And assuming that Apple |
| 1:29.3 | is able to find a satisfactory fix to the Hinch's reliability problem, it still believes there's |
| 1:34.6 | plenty of time for mass production to ramp up to hit that launch target. If anything, that might |
| 1:40.2 | just mean that the iPhone Ultra is in short supply when it does launch in September, |
| 1:44.6 | but Apple believes that it can ramp up mass production in time to satisfy that demand. |
| 1:49.8 | Next up today, Plex, the popular media streaming service and server hosting company, |
| 1:55.6 | has announced a massive increase for the price of its lifetime tier of Plex Pass. |
| 2:01.2 | Starting in July, Plex says that the lifetime Plex pass price will increase from $250 to a whopping $750. |
| 2:10.6 | In a blog post outlining this change, Plex admits that it has considered eliminating the lifetime Plex pass altogether, citing the |
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