❯ Apple macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate Leaks Clues to Over a Dozen Unreleased Products

LEAKApple left identifiers for over a dozen unreleased products in the release candidate of macOS Tahoe 26.7, including a Home Hub, HomePod mini 2, camera-equipped AirPods, AirPods Pro 4, iPhone Ultra, an M6 MacBook Pro, and an OLED iPad mini. The home accessory carries the codenames J490 for the docked version and J491 for the wall-mounted version, plus B518 and B522, two apparent new Beats headphones.

KEY EVIDENCEThe most substantial item is not the identifiers but a demo video: a user holds up a book, lets the camera on the AirPods read the title, and Siri immediately returns information about it — the first public appearance of Visual Intelligence running on earbuds. Until now, camera-equipped AirPods had existed only as supply-chain rumor, with no official confirmation. By Apple’s usual pattern, material of this kind surfacing in a release candidate points to the September iPhone event.

WATCHPutting a camera inside the earbuds amounts to Apple finding the next entry point for Siri in whatever the user’s line of sight lands on — not yet another screen. Observers had widely assumed this step would have to wait for glasses. What to watch next is whether Apple mass-produces the multimodal input hardware line ahead of the headset; the September event is the first checkpoint.

▪ SIGNALApple chose earbuds, not glasses, as the carrier for Visual Intelligence — a bet on what users are willing to wear, not the ideal form factor.