Another year, another incredible event filed with exciting announcements from Apple. Here are all of the big announcements from the event:
Apple Watch Series 10
- Prices start from $399
- The largest and most advanced display ever, for Apple Watch
- Corners are far more rounded, wider aspect ratio
- Wide-Angle OLED display, up to 40% brighter than Series 9
- Jet black, rose gold, silver aluminium & titanium finishes
- Matching bands for all finishes
- Thinnest Apple Watch ever made
- Can listen to music and podcast directly from the watch speaker
- Water resistant up to 50m (returning feature)
- Fastest charging, 30 minutes of charging will deliver up to 80% battery
- Apple Watch Series 10 is a carbon neutral product
- Calls will use a new neural engine for background removal during calls
- Translate app coming to the Apple Watch
- Sleep apnea can be detected using the accelerometer
- Tides app will showcase water depth, directions and more

Apple Watch Ultra 2
- Starts at $799
- Brand new satin black finish & titanium loop band
- Offline maps available on the Ultra 2

Apple AirPods 4
- $129 for the base version, $179 for AirPods with active noise cancellation
- You can now respond to Siri by nodding and shaking your head
- Touch capacitive button at the base of the AirPods to control playback
- Brand new H2 chip for better audio quality
- Personalised Spacial Audio
- Active noise cancellation, “transparent mode” & “adaptive audio”
- Conversation Awareness will automatically adjust when spoken to
- Upgraded microphones for better calls
- Wireless charging available on all models

AirPods Max
- Price starts from $549
- Brand new colours
- USB-C charging
AirPods Pro 2
- Price starts at $249
- Hearing protection feature added, turned on by default
- Simple 5 minute hearing test & personal hearing profiles
- Over-the-counter hearing aid test, available over 100 countries

iPhone 16
- Prices start at $799 for base model, $899 for iPhone 16 Plus
- Huge focus on Apple Intelligence
- Brand new colours – Ultra marine, teal, pink, white and black
- New glass ceramic screen, 2x tougher than any other smartphone
- 6.1” for the standard model, 6.7” for iPhone 16 plus
- Customisable action button (returning feature)
- New dedicated button titled “camera control”
- Camera control has a pressure sensitive “button” and gestures
- Camera controls can be used to zoom, adjust aperture, etc.
- iPhone 16 has a 48mp main camera & 12mp 2x telephoto camera
- Ultra wide camera has macro-photography capabilities
- Spacial photos and videos can be captured on the iPhone 16
- Wind noise reduction built into the iPhone 16
- Mobile gaming with the A18 chip enables ray-tracing
- Apple AI – rewrite sentences, change tones and proofread
- Apple AI – can create new emojis and images based on descriptions
- Apple AI – search photos and specific moments in a video by descriptions
- Apple AI – can automatically summarise messages and notifications
- Apple AI – improves Siri. More natural speaking & can type requests
- Apple AI – will soon be able to interact with various apps at once
- New AI features will begin to roll out next month for beta users
- Visual intelligence can identify places, events and more via the camera
- A18 chip – 6 core CPU, 2x fast machine learning
- New thermal substructure for better cooling and performance
- 17% more memory bandwidth. 30% faster than the iPhone 15
- 30% higher performance for gaming
- Satellite via satellite coming soon, starting in the US
- Roadside assistance coming to UK soon

iPhone 16 Pro & Pro Max
- Prices start at $999 for the Pro, $1,199 for 16 Pro Max
- Action button & ‘Camera Control’ coming to Pro versions
- Displays are now 6.3” for the Pro version, 6.9” for the Pro Max
- 120hz ProMotion display
- Built with grade-5 titanium
- 48mp fusion camera, 48mp ultra-wide, 12mp 5x telephoto
- Subject focus tracking & consistent brightness control
- New styles/filters with customisable controls, functional in live-preview
- Cinematic slow motion – 4K 120fps, with ProRes, LOG & HDR
- Playback speed can be changed after shooting
- Upgraded audio – four studio-quality microphones
- Spatial audio recording when recording video
- Audio mix feature – lets you alter audio to sound professionally recorded
- Audio recording app multi-layer feature, then isolates the played sound
- Dark black, grey, silver and black rose coloured finishes
- The best battery life, ever, thanks to the new A18 Pro chip
- 16-core neural engine, 6-core GPU, 6-core CPU
- 2x faster ray-tracing than the A17 Pro chip
- Supports Qi2 with upgraded MagSafe lineup

A few other fun features throughout the presentation included a music video for The Weeknd shot entirely on the iPhone. Overall, this year seems to have delivered massive updates for tech enthusiasts and creators alike.






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