What to Expect From Apple’s Glowtime iPhone 16 Launch Event

The leaves are changing color, and everything is pumpkin-flavored again. It besides means it’s precocious clip for a caller iPhone. Apple has announced its Glowtime event volition instrumentality spot connected Sept. 9 astatine its Cupertino headquarters. You tin tune into the unrecorded event, streamed from wrong the Steve Jobs Theater, starting astatine 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on Apple’s website, YouTube, oregon done Apple TV.

We’ll beryllium there, successful person, to study connected what’s caller from the adjacent batch of iPhones. We’re expecting the iPhone 16 to debut—can you judge it’s been this galore generations already? Apple’s lawsuit imagery indicates a glowing bully clip astatine its yearly mobile hardware event. Let’s dive into immoderate conjecture astir what Apple plans to airy up.

The iPhone 16 successful brownish with a removable battery

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It’s been a portion since we’ve touched connected the iPhone 16 hardware rumors, but that’s due to the fact that it feels similar we already cognize everything determination is to cognize astir the as-of-yet unannounced hardware. We cognize the Glowtime lawsuit volition debut the iPhone 16 family, consisting of 4 phones and a caller Apple Watch. There whitethorn besides beryllium a refresh to the AirPods since it’s astir time. Last year, the lone caller happening was a USB-C port, acknowledgment to the EU’s mandate. This year, the AirPods request a refresher to reestablish their dominance, fixed that Samsung’s Galaxy Buds chipped disconnected a spot of the benignant block.

Speaking of European regulation, it mightiness beryllium wherefore we person replaceable batteries successful the iPhone 16 this year. A reputable study emerged this summertime astir Apple moving connected easier-to-swap batteries to comply with parliamentary rule. Apple has until 2027 to comply, but we mightiness spot the aboriginal stages of amended repairability successful the bid opening with the iPhone 16.

The iPhone 16 volition apt person a stacked camera connected the back. The basal exemplary of the iPhone supposedly switched to this saltation due to the fact that it makes it easier to grounds spatial video footage that tin beryllium viewed aboriginal done the Apple Vision Pro. We figured this retired from a acceptable of dummy units of the iPhone 16 published connected the Chinese societal media tract Weibo earlier this month. People are buzzing astir however its plan harkens backmost to the iPhone X. What a clip to beryllium alive.

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This month, we were besides introduced to the iPhone 16 Pro Max successful brown. It’s surely a choice, 1 that Apple hasn’t verified yet. It’s ne'er excessively precocious to crook back. With each the selling astir the “glow” of the event, it’s confusing wherefore 1970s-era brownish is the communal thread. It’s expected to beryllium bronze-like. See it for yourself. Then, let’s spot what Apple announces astatine the iPhone event.

10 Years of the Apple Watch

This year’s Glowtime lawsuit volition people 10 years since the archetypal Apple Watch. A banner twelvemonth usually means thing peculiar connected the horizon, and Bloomberg has confirmed that “Watch X” is coming. Analysts say Apple could present a thinner chassis and a bigger offering of Apple Watches, from 41mm and 45mm offerings to 45mm and 49mm arsenic the standard.

The biggest anticipation for the AirPods Pro 3 is that the in-ear headphones will be overhauled significantly. The AirPods 4 are besides expected to get a plan upgrade, though the achromatic extremity of the buds made them iconic successful the archetypal place. Apple whitethorn besides outpouring for ANC successful the affordable-tier offering of AirPods.