Not in the keynote: the new iPhone and your business cards
Apple's event ran on 9 September. Cameras, chips, colours — and not one second about the twenty business cards you will come home from your next conference with. That part was never Apple's job. It is an app, it runs on Apple's own on-device intelligence, and it works on the new phone from the first day you are holding it.
Last updated 2026-09-07
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo on 9 September, and iOS 27 arrives on 14 September. Kardhaus asks for iOS 26 or later and every one of those ships with newer, so it runs from the first day you have one.
Three things the keynote did not cover
- A better camera still only takes a photograph. It is a picture of a name until something turns it into a contact you can dial. That step is an app, not a sensor.
- Apple Intelligence, two seconds after a handshake. Kardhaus reads the card with the OCR built into iOS, then sorts the fields with Apple’s on-device language model — the model the keynote is about, doing the thing you will actually do this month.
- Both sides are one person. Half the cards handed over in Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul are Chinese on the front and English on the back. Most scanners file that as two contacts. Kardhaus reasons over both faces and keeps one.
It works on day one
Kardhaus needs iOS 26 or later. Every iPhone Apple sells ships with a newer iOS than that, so whatever is in the box on launch day runs it — no waiting, no compatibility update to sit through. It also runs on the iPhone already in your hand, which is the one you will be scanning cards with next week.