Apple ships iPhone 18 Pro with longer battery, variable-aperture camera and Google-backed Siri

Apple's smaller Pro phone arrives with a faster chip, two-day battery, a variable-aperture camera and four new finishes.

• iPhone 18 Pro launched alongside Apple's first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, priced from £1,199 (€1,449/$1,199).
• The A20 Pro chip is about 27% faster than last year's A19 Pro, with roughly 45% faster graphics performance.
• The battery lasts six hours longer than the iPhone 17 Pro, stretching to about two days between charges.
• It ships with iOS 27's revamped Siri backed by Google's AI technologies and comes in black, silver, glacier blue and burgundy.