Everything Apple Announced at Its Glowtime Event: iPhone 16, AirPods 4, and More

Apple’s Glowtime was little absorbing than rumors made it retired to be. As overmuch arsenic immoderate expected redesigned Apple Watch Ultras oregon Apple Watch FEs, the 2024 refresh connected Apple’s iPhones, wearables, and AirPods was a subdued affair, each amended to marque mode for Apple Intelligence AI features. If determination was immoderate operation uttered much than “our most… ever” astatine Apple’s large tech conference, it was “coming aboriginal this year.”

Still, there’s immoderate chill worldly waiting successful the wings for Apple fans. The caller slimmed-down Apple Watch Series 10 should beryllium lighter but with much surface existent estate. If you similar large phones, the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max are bigger than ever. And if you were ever hoping to usage your iPhone similar a DSLR with a half-cock shutter button, you will… eventually. That feature, and galore more, are coming “later this year.”

iPhone 16 Lineup Adds a Button Specifically for Your Camera

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The regular aged iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus look a batch similar the iPhone 15, though with a redesigned camera bump and 2 caller buttons jutting retired the side. The basal exemplary gets the iPhone 15 Pro’s programmable enactment button, but the large summation is the Camera Control “tactic” button. The basal phones positive the 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max’s caller power tin unfastened the camera app and instrumentality photos, but it tin besides swipe done immoderate simplified photograph controls without needing to deed the screen.

All caller iPhone 16 models usage a mentation of the A18 Bionic CPU. The A18 Pro successful the Pro and Pro Max phones has a amended GPU and NPU, positive it allows ProMotion show enactment and always-on display. The Pro models besides travel with respective much camera tweaks. Most, if not all, of the promised AI features, immoderate of which enactment with the caller camera power button, won’t beryllium retired until aft iOS 18 drops alongside the iPhone 16 connected Sept. 20.

Apple Watch Series 10 Is Thinner With a Little Bit More Extra Screen

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Sorry, this isn’t the rumored “Apple Watch Series X,” adjacent with the Apple Watch’s archetypal large redesign successful respective years. The Apple Watch Series 10 has a touted 30% much surface country acknowledgment to reduced bezels and a sloped ticker look design. It’s thinner and lighter than erstwhile models, and you tin present yet get it successful anodized achromatic successful either aluminum oregon titanium.

The caller ticker volition complaint faster than before, with a promised 0 to 80% successful 30 minutes. Plus, a caller slumber apnea detection mode volition show your movements and breathing for signs of distress portion you snooze. The caller Apple ticker should beryllium disposable Sept. 20, with preorders starting today. 

Apple Watch Ultra 2 Now Comes successful Black

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Everything comes successful achromatic implicit present successful Apple land. There’s nary Apple Watch Ultra 3 this year, but instead, anybody who didn’t similar the metallic look of the archetypal exemplary tin nab a mentation successful scratch-resistant black. There’s a caller titanium Milanese loop for sports stars who privation to look stylish, but the coolest diagnostic for nerds similar maine is the Tides app. This volition fto you cognize erstwhile precocious tide oregon debased tide is coming, and you tin adjacent spot the elevation of the tides with a elemental graph.

The AirPods 4 Include Options for ANC oregon Without

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Apple’s offering a fewer much options if you don’t privation to ammunition retired for the AirPods Pro conscionable to get ANC with your Apple-brand buds. The large touted caller features of the caller AirPods 4 models are a caller acoustic architecture, drivers, and on-board M2 chip. But different than that, there’s really 2 abstracted versions, and the 1 with amended sound canceling is the 1 you genuinely want. The unfastened receptor plan that retails for $180 comes with progressive sound canceling and a “premium charging case.” The lower-end versions travel without ANC, but some are expected to person nod-based gestures to respond to Siri announcements specified arsenic incoming calls. 

The $130, lower-end versions besides won’t person entree to the Qi-certified wireless charger, whereas the $180 mentation does. All-in-all, it seems similar the much costly mentation is simply a overmuch amended concern unless if—for immoderate reason—you can’t basal ANC.

The AirPods Max Have Returned, Kind of

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It’s been 4 years since the past clip Apple updated its AirPods Max headphones. Well, they’ve yet offered them an update. Unfortunately, it’s mostly an effort to power the headphones from Lightning to USB-C chargers. That’s good and dandy, but it’s obscurity adjacent arsenic melodramatic arsenic we’d anticipation for. They inactive tally for $550 successful a fewer caller colour options, similar a airy purple color. They volition retail for $550 and beryllium disposable Sept. 20. 

Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 Can Now Act arsenic Pseudo Hearing Aids

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The tech elephantine yet showed disconnected its long-rumored enactment to crook their earbuds into proceeding tech. Apple’s Health app present has a proceeding conception that tin behaviour a elemental proceeding trial successful lawsuit they are disquieted each their large jams are hurting their hearing. 

More important is the proceeding assistance included successful the AirPods Pro 2. Apple calls this an “over-the-counter proceeding assistance capability,” turning their buds into ” clinical-grade proceeding aids.” Simply put, with the AirPods in, users should beryllium capable to person sounds similar code oregon euphony boosted for them, each of which tin beryllium adjusted successful settings. 

Apple says it’s getting support from planetary wellness agencies “soon,” and it should beryllium disposable successful the U.S. and elsewhere sometime aboriginal this year.