Apple’s iPhone 16 event: the 8 biggest announcements

Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” lawsuit has conscionable travel to a close. While the iPhone 16 was the headliner of today’s showcase, Apple had respective different announcements to share, including immoderate breathtaking caller additions to its smartwatch and AirPods lineups.

Here are each the biggest announcements from the event.

In summation to inheriting the iPhone 15 Pro’s Action Button, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus present travel equipped with a useful caller DSLR-like fastener that you tin usage to instrumentality pictures and videos arsenic good arsenic set settings. They besides person rear cameras stacked atop 1 different that enactment spatial video signaling for viewing connected the Apple Vision Pro.

The iPhone 16 has a faster A18 processor to grip caller AI features coming to the device. The 6.1-inch iPhone 16 starts astatine $799 and $899 for the 6.7-inch Plus version. They are disposable successful white, black, green, pink, and bluish and commencement shipping connected September 20th.

The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max travel with somewhat bigger displays, with the basal Pro exemplary featuring a 6.3-inch show (instead of 6.1 inches), portion the Pro Max has a 6.9-inch show (instead of 6.7 inches). Just similar the basal iPhone 16, the Pro lineup besides comes with the caller seizure button. They besides person an upgraded A18 Pro chip, with the Pro Max mentation possessing the “best iPhone artillery beingness ever,” according to Apple.

As opposed to past year’s model, some phones — not conscionable the Pro Max — are getting the aforesaid 5x telephoto camera with a “tetraprism” design, on with an upgraded 48-megapixel ultrawide sensor and 48MP “Fusion camera.” The Pro-level iPhones travel successful gold, black, white, and “natural” titanium (gray). The iPhone 16 Pro costs $999, portion the Pro Max costs $1,199. They’ll beryllium disposable for preorder connected Friday and successful stores connected September 20th.

All of the iPhone 16 models are acceptable for Apple Intelligence — the caller AI features Apple is launching successful beta adjacent period starting successful English. These features see the quality to hunt for images successful your room by describing them and creating customized emoji.

Yet Apple is besides outfitting the iPhone 16’s Camera Control fastener with a caller feature, called Visual Intelligence, which volition automatically hunt for things you instrumentality photos of. You tin besides usage it to execute actions, specified arsenic snapping a photograph of a performance poster and easy adding it to your calendar.

The Apple Watch Series 10 has the thinnest illustration yet, on with a larger wide-angle OLED show that Apple says is up to 40 percent brighter erstwhile viewed astatine an angle. It’s besides susceptible of detecting signs of slumber apnea by measuring breathing disturbances portion you’re asleep. The caller ticker besides has a built-in extent and h2o somesthesia sensor.

The caller instrumentality comes successful a polished aluminum decorativeness successful black, with matte options for roseate golden and metallic oregon a polished titanium decorativeness that Apple says is 20 percent lighter than the Series 9. The Watch Series 10 starts astatine $399 and volition go disposable connected September 20th.

The Watch Ultra didn’t get immoderate large updates during this event, but Apple announced a sleek satin achromatic decorativeness arsenic good arsenic a titanium Milanese Loop set that Apple says is “made from corrosion-resistant titanium and designed for scuba.”

Apple has yet taken the wraps disconnected the AirPods 4, which travel with a caller H4 spot that allows for amended audio quality. With an open-ear design, Apple says the caller buds are the “most comfy AirPods” ever. They besides travel with adjuvant features similar dependable isolation and transparency mode.

They diagnostic a smaller USB-C-compatible charging lawsuit with a speaker, allowing them to marque a sound if you’re trying to find them with the Find My app. Apple is besides bringing progressive sound cancellation to the next-gen AirPods, but they’re much expensive. The cheaper AirPods exemplary costs $129, portion the mentation with ANC costs $179. They some commencement shipping connected September 20th.

Later this year, Apple volition marque the AirPods Pro 2 disposable arsenic an over-the-counter proceeding aid. Apple is launching a mates of different hearing-focused features connected the AirPods Pro 2, including a diagnostic designed to support proceeding and a clinical-grade proceeding test. These features go disposable successful a escaped bundle update successful much than 100 countries and regions this fall.

Apple besides had a tiny update to its over-the-ear AirPods Max. It’s offering the instrumentality successful immoderate caller colors and switched retired the Lightning charging larboard for USB-C.