Everything announced at Apple’s iPhone 16 ‘Glowup’ Event: AI, Apple Watch 10, AirPods, more

Each fall, main tech corporations unveil their latest {hardware} forward of the vacation season. On Monday, Apple held its marquee occasion, dubbed “Glowtime,” unveiling its extremely anticipated iPhone 16 lineup, Apple Watch Sequence 10, redesigned AirPods, and extra. 

Though the {hardware} was the star of the present and WWDC, its software program occasion, was solely months in the past, Apple additionally sprinkled in some new useful software program options customers can anticipate quickly, together with extremely anticipated well being choices — and, after all, artificial intelligence (AI).

Additionally: 4 best iPhone 16 features that make Apple’s standard model worth upgrading to

In case you did not get to tune in or need a detailed abstract of the bulletins, hold studying for ZDNET’s full roundup of the information under. 

1. iPhone 16 collection

The iPhone 16 lineup, consisting of the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone Pro Max, was on the forefront of Apple’s occasion. 

The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are available in new daring colours, together with ultramarine, teal, and pink, alongside white and black. Apart from colours, the modifications to the telephones’ look embrace a rear digital camera bump, digital camera alignment, and two new buttons, which we are going to discover under. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus preserve 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screens, respectively. 

The telephones have a brand new customizable Motion button on the aspect, which may be programmed to carry out completely different duties, akin to opening the flashlight. 

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Moreover, there’s a new Digicam Management button, with touch-capacitive sensors that customers can faucet and swipe to regulate the digital camera. The button capabilities like a daily digital camera, permitting customers to press it frivolously to concentrate on a topic and tougher to take an image. The button may also launch the digital camera app, begin recording, and pull up digital camera controls. 

The telephones additionally characteristic upgraded digital camera techniques, together with a 48-megapixel lens, with a 2X Telephoto possibility and a brand new macro images lens enabled by the brand new 12MP Extremely Large digital camera. Each telephones additionally take spatial pictures and movies for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. 

To offer the smartphones sufficient energy to run the most recent options powered by generative AI present in Apple Intelligence, the brand new telephones additionally characteristic a brand new A18 processor. The A18 chip makes it as much as two occasions sooner for machine studying, has 17% extra reminiscence bandwidth, is as much as 30% sooner than the CPU within the iPhone 15, and has a 40% sooner GPU. 

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The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will likely be obtainable for preorder on September 13 at $799 and $899 respectively, beginning at 128GB. 

iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max additionally got here filled with upgrades, the highlights being bigger 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch shows, the thinnest borders ever on an Apple product, Tremendous Retina XDR shows, 4 titanium finishes (black titanium, pure titanium, white titanium, and desert titanium), Digicam Management, and the A18 Professional chip. 

The A18 Professional chip has 16-core neural engines and 17% extra reminiscence bandwidth to excel at generative AI workloads. It runs as much as 15% sooner than final yr’s A17 Professional, utilizing 20% much less energy, paired with a 6-core GPU. Apple additionally threw across the time period “Subsequent-gen ML accelerators” through the occasion. 

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The digital camera system has additionally been upgraded on the Professional line, that includes a brand new 48MP Fusion digital camera with a “sooner, extra environment friendly quad-pixel sensor and Apple Digicam Interface, unlocking 4K120 fps video recording in Dolby Imaginative and prescient – the best decision and frame-rate mixture ever obtainable on iPhone, and a smartphone first,” according to Apple. 

The iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max can be found for preorder on September 13 at $999 and $1,099 respectively, beginning at 128GB of storage. 

2. Apple Watch Sequence 10

For the primary time because the Apple Watch Sequence 7 launch, the mid-tier wearable acquired a noticeable redesign with the launch of the Apple Watch Sequence 10. 

Apple gave its Sequence 10 the thinnest design (9.7 mm) and largest display but. Apple additionally touted that the Apple Watch Sequence 10 options quick charging and as much as 18 hours of battery life. 

The watch has Apple’s first wide-angle OLED show, which makes its display as much as 40% brighter than the Sequence 9 when seen from an angle. This helps readers higher learn the display. This OLED show permits for a sooner refresh fee, updating as soon as a second as an alternative of as soon as a minute in always-on mode. 

A few of the new breakout options of the Apple Watch embrace sleep apnea notifications, audio playback by means of the Sequence 10’s new audio system, background noise discount throughout calls, and a built-in depth gauge and water temperature sensor. 

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The Apple Watch Sequence 10 begins at $399, is obtainable for pre-order beginning at the moment, September 9, and can ship on September 20. For the primary time, it’s obtainable in a refined aluminum end in jet black, rose gold, and silver aluminum. The titanium case, made from a brand new grade 5 titanium, is obtainable in pure, gold, and slate.

Alongside the Watch Sequence 10, Apple introduced a brand new satin black end for its Watch Extremely 2, which is tailor-made to avid athletes and outside fanatics. It begins at $799; pre-orders begin at the moment and ship out on September 20. 

Apple additionally launched an array of latest watch bands, together with new choices from Hermes and Nike Sport Loop. 

3. AirPods 4

After rumors circulated about two new AirPod fashions since final yr, Apple lastly launched them: Apple AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with Lively Noise Cancellation (ANC). One is the brand new entry-level possibility, whereas the opposite sits between that and the extra premium AirPods Pro 2.

Each of the brand new Apple AirPods 4 fashions characteristic an H2 chip, significantly better general sound high quality, Customized Spatial Audio, voice isolation, gesture-based Siri controls, and, most notably, a USB-C charging case. Along with USB-C charging, the AirPods may be charged utilizing an Apple Watch charger or a Q-certified charger, delivering as much as 30 hours of battery life.

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Apple additionally shares that the brand new Open-Ear Match makes these AirPods the “finest headphones Apple has ever created with an open-ear design, setting a wholly new benchmark for match and luxury.” The stem now incorporates a drive sensor, permitting customers to press on the stem to pause, mute, or finish calls. 

The extra superior model consists of lively noise cancellation at a barely increased price. AirPods 4 will price $129, and the mannequin with ANC will price $179. Like the remainder of the merchandise, they’re obtainable for pre-order at the moment and will likely be in shops beginning September 20. 

Apple additionally refreshed its AirPods Max providing with new colours (midnight, blue, purple, starlight, and orange), and USB-C charging.

Lastly, Apple introduced new listening to well being options for AirPods Professional 2 coming this fall: Listening to Protections, which actively scale back louder noises out of your environment utilizing machine studying; Listening to Take a look at, which requires AirPods Professional and an iPhone; and a Listening to Assist characteristic, which permits earbuds to double as listening to aids. 

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These options will likely be obtainable within the fall for AirPods Professional 2 by way of the software program replace when paired with an iPhone working on iOS 18 or iPad working on iPadOS 18. 

4. Apple Intelligence updates

Apple debuted its in-house generative AI options, Apple Intelligence, throughout its annual Worldwide Builders Convention in June. Throughout the convention, we noticed how Apple deliberate to implement Apple Intelligence throughout its private gadgets, together with by way of an upgraded Siri with extra conversational capabilities.

Throughout at the moment’s occasion, Apple largely reviewed the options it had beforehand unveiled, highlighting methods it would assist customers, akin to auto-writing, proofreading, emoji-generating, looking photograph galleries utilizing conversational prompts, and extra. 

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The largest spotlight was the launch of Visible Intelligence, Apple’s reply to Google Lens. Like Google Lens, you’ll be able to take pictures of your environment, akin to a canine or restaurant, and get personalised insights and related data on what you captured.

Customers who buy a tool from the brand new iPhone 16 lineup will have the ability to entry Visible Intelligence from the brand new Digicam Management possibility “later this yr,” in accordance with Apple, although the corporate didn’t make clear an actual launch date. 

All the pieces to find out about iOS 18

Apple unveiled iOS 18 throughout this yr’s WWDC in June. It will likely be readily put in on all iPhone 16 fashions and obtainable to obtain on older iPhones this coming Monday, Sept. 16. Regardless that Apple did not contact on iOS 18 a lot through the occasion, loads of options are packed into the brand new software program, so we rounded up among the finest ones:

• RCS help, scheduled messages, and textual content formatting in iMessage
• Customizable app placements and icon designs on the house display
• A redesigned Management Heart with a number of panels for widgets
• A redesigned Photographs app for simpler looking
• Faucet to Money in Pockets

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