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iPhone 18 defect sparks customer complaints

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

Israel Hayom (he) Israel · Hebrew 29 Sept, 19:04 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Türkçe (2) · +1 language

Read at Israel Hayom (he)

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Israel Hayom (he), 29 Sept, 19:04 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Sözcü.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 09:32 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Dân Trí.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%75%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 75%

First movers

Israel Hayom (he) 29 Sept, 19:04 UTC
Sözcü +14h 28m
Cumhuriyet +14h 47m
Dân Trí +29h 11m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Vietnam. Middle East 2: Israel, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Hebrew, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Israel Hayom (he), 29 Sept 2026, 19:04 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 19:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 18:06 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Apple replaces iPhone 18 Pro Max units with AT&T network defects; مشکل جدید آیفون ۱۸ پرو / رنگ اطراف لنزهای دوربین شاید تغییر کند; Donos de iPhone 18 Pro reclamam de ‘estalos’ no alto-falante. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 29 Sept, 19:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Dân Trí Vietnam 1 Oct, 00:15 UTC
iPhone 18 Pro Max liên tục gặp lỗi sau 2 tuần lên kệ

Middle East 3 outlets

Cumhuriyet Turkey 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC
iPhone 18 Pro modellerine yönelik yeni tartışma: İadeler başladı
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- iPhone 18 Pro'larda 'renk bozulması' krizi: Kullanıcılar iade için Apple'ın kapısını çaldı 30 Sept, 09:51 UTC
Sözcü Turkey 30 Sept, 09:32 UTC
iPhone 18’lerde arıza çıktı: Tüm müşteriler Apple'ın kapısına dayandı
Israel Hayom (he) Israel 29 Sept, 19:04 UTC
"פגום כבר מהקופסה": זעם בקרב רוכשי האייפון 18 החדש