Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, AirPods 4 & Apple Watch Series 10

Every year, Apple graces us with a slew of latest product bulletins that normally embrace a brand new watch, telephone, and extra. This yr, we see how the corporate is additional exploring its Apple Intelligence developments which it debuted again in June, together with the primary iPhone constructed from the bottom up utilizing this tech. We additionally get a brand new Apple Watch and AirPods, in addition to some superior new options for these dwelling with listening to loss. Let’s dive in…

Apple Watch Collection 10

That includes the largest show ever on a wearable with 30% extra display screen space than the earlier mannequin, the Apple Watch Collection 10 is healthier optimized for maximized font sizes and wider facet ratios. The watch additionally has the first-ever wide-angle OLED show, which supplies you a 40% brighter show when viewing the watch at an angle — serving to out these nosy neighbors who need to see what you’re doing in your wrist. There’s additionally a re-engineered speaker system that allows you to play music and podcasts straight by way of the watch itself. 

Appears-wise, the watch will get rounded case corners whereas additionally being constructed for consolation. At 9.7mm, it’s the thinnest Apple Watch but whereas additionally being 10% lighter. Becoming a member of the rose gold and aluminum instances is a brand new polished aluminum end in shiny black, utilizing a 30-step anodization course of for a brilliant smooth look. 

It additionally lastly joins the adventure-oriented Apple Watch Extremely with a titanium case model that’s 20% lighter in weight than stainless-steel (and fortuitously on the identical value). Made with 95% recycled titanium for a carbon-neutral building, the titanium model is available in three colours with matching hyperlink bracelets.

The Apple Watch 10 has 18 hours of battery life and a 30-minute quick cost that will get you a whopping 80% battery life.

As for the Apple Watch Extremely 2, which was revealed final yr, there’s no new technology. Nonetheless, Apple did reveal a brand new satin black end for his or her titanium case, using a customized blasting course of. There’s additionally a brand new band possibility now — titanium mesh — which was impressed by classic dive watch bands and is obtainable in each pure and black.

The introduction of the Apple Watch 10 additionally comes with the debut of the Watch OS 11, which rolls out a tons of latest options, together with fall prevention, loudness alerts, coronary heart monitoring with AFIB alerts and medical reminders, and sleep monitoring with sleep apnea detection and ovulation monitoring. There’s additionally a slew of latest refined apps for water actions, together with seen water temperature sensors and particular apps for sports activities like browsing, kayaking, and paddleboarding that can be utilized in tandem along with your telephone.

Out there September 20, the Apple Watch Collection 10 shall be obtainable for $399, with a mobile model at $499.

AirPods 4

The brand new technology wireless earbuds have additionally been revealed with the AirPods 4, that includes a extra snug, higher match that’s generalized extra ear shapes. Powered by the H2 chip, these buds boast a brand new acoustic structure with higher basses and highs, a listening to safety characteristic, customized spacial audio tech, and a single-touch button to play or pause music. 

One of many largest takeaways for us was a brand new head-nod functionality, letting you reply Siri with head actions for “sure” or “no” slightly than talking aloud. We additionally love the brand new adaptive audio characteristic that acknowledges if you’re participating in dialog and truly lowers the amount of your music for you.

Apple additionally has a brand new, extra moveable wi-fi charging case with 30 hours of additional battery life. Now made solely plastic-free with 100% fiber-based materials, the instances even have new audio system to assist with the Discover My app and have a brand new USB-C port for charging.

Whereas there’s solely a slight replace for the Air Pods Max, they do now are available new colours. And by way of the Air Pods Professional 2, they are going to quickly be capable of double as listening to aids after the wearer takes a 5-minute, clinical-grade listening to check. It’s at the moment awaiting clearance for a fall rollout.

Beginning at $129, the Air Pods 4 shall be obtainable on September 20. For the primary time within the line, the Air Pods 4 additionally has a model with active noise cancellation for $50 extra.

iPhone 16 and 16+

In fact, this wouldn’t be an Apple Occasion with out the announcement of a new iPhone. That includes 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screens are the iPhone 16 and 16+, with ceramic defend materials masking the display screen, which is 2 occasions more durable than another smartphone display screen available on the market. Maxing out at 2,000 nits of brightness, the show also can get as little as 1 nit when it’s darkish.

Main options embrace the brand new customizable motion button on the case aspect, which can be utilized for something from prompt track recognition to translations to a flashlight at nighttime. Together with that, there’s additionally a brand new Digital camera Management button, permitting you to open the digital camera, take footage or movies (relying on how lengthy you press it), zoom in or out, regulate the depth of area, and extra. You’ll additionally obtain haptic suggestions like on a shutter digital camera.

Powering the iPhone 16 fashions is the brand new A18 chip, boasting a velocity 2 occasions quicker than machine-learning engines with 17% extra bandwidth. Its 6-core CPU is 30% quicker than the earlier A16 within the iPhone 15 (sure, Apple has jumped generations with this new model) and the 5-core GPU is 40% quicker.

Whereas the iPhone 16 Professional fashions coated under will totally discover Apple Intelligence — Apple’s AI-powered characteristic set — the usual 16 has some cool makes use of for the tech as properly. This contains Grammarly-type edits on texts and emails, the flexibility to search out particular photographs from years earlier than utilizing a quick description of what you’re on the lookout for, and AI-created emojis utilizing your individual descriptors (which feels prefer it has the potential to be reckless tbh). You can too have your telephone summarize emails and notifications and even prioritize vital ones close to the highest. Beta for these options will roll out subsequent month.

There’s additionally the Visible Intelligence characteristic, which has similarities to Google Lens in that it enables you to do issues corresponding to seek for restaurant critiques and add occasions to your calendar based mostly on photographs you’re taking. The 16 and 16+ even have two cameras — a 48MP most important Fusion digital camera and a 2x telephoto lens. The 48MP is a Fusion digital camera, which lets you use each 

Becoming a member of black and white colorways are the pink, teal, and blue fashions which couldn’t assist however remind us of the old-school iMacs from the ‘90s. They’re additionally now made with 85% recycled supplies. Priced at $799 and $899, respectively, the iPhone 16 and 16+ will go on presale on September 13, with a launch date of September 20.

iPhone 16 Professional and 16 Professional Max

Piggybacking on the usual iPhone 16 is the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max fashions. These run on a extra highly effective model of the A18 chip referred to as the A18 Professional. That is the quickest, most effective chip that’s ever been in a smartphone from any model earlier than. It’s going to profit players, with most functionality for any sport obtainable. Nonetheless, it additionally contains a third digital camera with a 5x telephoto lens.

Out there with 6.3-inch (16 Professional) or 6.9-inch (16 Professional Max) screens, these telephones have bigger shows and one of the best battery life ever put in an iPhone at both 27 or 33 hours of video playback for the Professional and Professional Max, respectively. To not neglect, these fashions use grade 5 titanium of their housing similar to their predecessors, which is nearly half the burden of their metal counterparts. 

The Professional and Professional Max are additionally the primary iPhones to be constructed from the bottom as much as accommodate Apple Intelligence, elevated even farther from the common 16 fashions to incorporate a semantics index which mainly enables you to search for something in your telephone based mostly in your description, nonetheless free. It may possibly additionally present images strategies for optimizing a sure shot you’re attempting to get.

Out there for pre-order on September 13, the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max fashions received’t go on sale till September 20, costing $999 and $1,199, respectively.