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This week: Project Bongo is back to replace your iPhone buttons with haptics, (almost) every iPad is turning OLED, AirPods Pro 3 are having troubles, when you should upgrade your iMac — and our full reviews of the M5 Vision Pro and Apple Watch Series 11!

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This week’s stories:

iPhone 20 could make buttons a thing of the past

• iPhone 20 might replace buttons with haptics -- at last. The 20th anniversary handset could finally go with motion-sensing, vibrating tech.

Here’s when every iPad gets a beautiful OLED screen

• Apple plans to put gorgeous OLED displays in almost every iPad. Here’s when to expect the tablets to switch away from LCDs.
• Apple could bring iPhone-style water resistance to iPad mini
• How Apple might give the M6-powered iPad Pro a serious performance boost

Weird AirPods Pro 3 glitch proves unbearable at 30,000 feet

• Some users of AirPods Pro 3 are plagued by a whistle noise when using the earbuds on a flight. Here’s how to be ready if it happens to you.

The M5 Vision Pro is still the ultimate entertainment device

• The new M5 Vision Pro brings a huge leap in compute power and graphics performance — plus a more comfortable head band in the box.
• Review on YouTube

Apple Watch Series 11

• How to use advanced Apple Watch sleep stage tracking