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New Apple Patents

Apple patents everything from iPhone and Mac features to Vision Pro optics, health sensors, and Apple Silicon, often years before products ship.

Through the USPTO’s September 24, 2026 release, Patentlyze has covered 493 notable Apple patent applications, including 155 published in the last 30 days.

493

total filings tracked

155

published last 30 days

317

published last 90 days

This week's published patents

Week of September 24, 2026 · 32 filings covered · refreshes every week

Apple's 32 newest filings sort into three clusters:

Headset and eye tracking. Over a dozen filings target AR/VR and gaze interaction, including eye-tracking that scrolls text when you finish reading, AR labels that stay stuck to real objects, and a strap-mounted processor design.
Wireless and radio efficiency. Several filings focus on cutting battery drain, including a low-power radio that wakes the main chip only when needed, faster satellite switching, and tower handoffs that spare the battery.
Cameras, audio, and display. Remaining filings cover a camera that auto-sorts photos into shared or private albums, a prism-tilting system for thinner optical zoom, and headphones that mix a wired cable with wireless head tracking.

What Apple is working on

Based on Apple's activity across the watchlists we track · tracked programs only, not all of Apple's output

Long-running programs

what qualifies: 8 or more filings, active in the last 6 weeks

Apple's AR glasses	69 filings · latest Sep 24
Apple's eye and hand controls	34 filings · latest Sep 24
Apple's device-to-device handoff	25 filings · latest Sep 24
Apple's foldable iPhone	9 filings · latest Sep 18

Newly emerging

what qualifies: first Apple filing within the last 8 weeks

The AI photo editing race	2 filings since Sep 4
The AI chip wars	7 filings since Aug 6

Gone quiet

what qualifies: no new Apple filing in 6 or more weeks while the race stays active

Wearables that read your body

12 filings · quiet since Jun 26 while 6 rivals kept filing

Contested races

what qualifies: 3 or more companies in the same watchlist, Apple among them

The AR glasses race	44 of 312 · 10 companies
The AI chip wars	7 of 309 · 12 companies
The AI photo editing race	2 of 194 · 14 companies
AI agents that act for you	4 of 151 · 15 companies
The on-device AI privacy push	14 of 141 · 11 companies
The GPU rendering race	3 of 109 · 10 companies

Apple patent questions, answered

Numbers pull live from the database, so answers never go stale

What is Apple working on right now?

Apple's current patent filings concentrate on Apple's AR glasses, Apple's eye and hand controls, Apple's device-to-device handoff and Apple's foldable iPhone, with newer activity in The AI photo editing race and The AI chip wars. The breakdown above shows each program’s filing count and latest activity.

How many patents did Apple publish this month?

133 Apple patent applications have published in September 2026 so far, after 84 in August. Patentlyze has covered 492 Apple filings since tracking began in May 2026.

Does an Apple patent mean the feature will launch?

No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is where Apple is spending research effort right now.

Where can I find Apple’s newest patents?

This page updates every week, when the USPTO publishes its new batch of applications. The newest Apple filings appear in the list below.