Apple’s iPhone 16 occasion: tips on how to watch and what to anticipate

Apple is on the point of announce the iPhone 16, which can absolutely be its strongest and best-camera-having cellphone but (not less than for the Professional fashions). It’s additionally anticipated to be the primary iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence throughout the board.

Along with the iPhone 16 lineup and a slate of recent watches and AirPods, Apple is predicted to point out extra AI options, like the power to grasp what’s onscreen, together with options it launched at WWDC in June, which embody an upgraded Siri, picture era, AI rewrite, and name recording and transcription talents.

The phrase “glowtime” is probably going a reference to the glow impact that seems across the edges of the display screen when Siri is activated within the newest developer betas of iOS 18. In response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, “glow” can also be the inner identify for macOS Sequoia, which can seemingly launch after the occasion at across the identical time as iOS 18.

Apple’s iPhone 16 occasion will probably be dwell and in particular person in Cupertino, California, on September ninth at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, and The Verge will probably be there dwell running a blog all of the information. The occasion can even be livestreamed on YouTube, Apple TV, and Apple’s web site.

Apple Intelligence will require highly effective processors. Apple’s development within the final couple of years was to present the earlier era’s high processor to the base-model iPhone and introduce a brand new, stronger chip for the Professional. The iPhone 15 Professional’s A17 Professional processor is the one A-series chip proper now that helps Apple Intelligence, however rumors counsel all iPhone 16 fashions will get a brand new A18 chip. Past that, we count on new Apple Watches and additions to the AirPods lineup.

The principle iPhone 16 fashions will are available new colours and look barely totally different from the again this yr. If leaked dummy models are to be believed, the digital camera module will now have two lenses stacked vertically, just like the iPhone 12 and iPhone X, as a substitute of the diagonal placement used because the iPhone 13.

Vertical lens placement would higher assist panorama spatial video seize for watching on the Imaginative and prescient Professional. There’s no indication we’ll see an replace to the Imaginative and prescient Professional itself, however hopefully we’ll get one thing to hold buyer curiosity in Apple’s combined actuality tech afloat.

The iPhone 16 lineup can even get higher battery life, in response to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

The iPhone 16 Professional would possibly lastly have the identical cameras because the Professional Max, one in every of a number of issues Google dinged Apple on on the Pixel 9 occasion. Each fashions could get the 5x “tetraprism” telephoto lenses which might be at the moment unique to the 15 Professional Max. Rumors counsel that the ultrawide digital camera within the new Professionals can even have vital high quality enhancements because of a bigger 48MP sensor.

For the Professional fashions, we’re anticipating a brand new rose end and a Zune-brown “bronze” titanium end, and each the common and Max fashions are anticipated to have barely bigger screens than their iPhone 15 counterparts. Gurman says the Professional’s show will go from 6.1 inches to six.3 and that the Professional Max will bounce from 6.7 to six.9 inches.

The iPhone’s facet buttons could change to new pressure-sensitive ones and will embody a DSLR-like characteristic the place you may focus with gentle stress and take the image by urgent tougher. It’s a Professional characteristic that might additionally come to the common 16.

General, the iPhone 16 fashions received’t be a lot of a design change. We’re already seeing rumors that the following mannequin, the iPhone 17, will get a slimmer redesign.

The brand new Apple Watch Sequence 10 (or X?) could have a thinner and extra refined case than the earlier Sequence 9 mannequin, however the actual factor to look out for is a mannequin with a much bigger display screen. Gurman believes the Sequence 10 will get an Apple Watch Extremely-sized 49mm display screen choice, plus a brand new chip.

Tremendous athletes and outdoorsy individuals can even count on a brand new black colour choice for the Apple Watch Extremely 2, and a plastic Apple Watch SE can also be rumored to make an look.

The brand new headphone lineup is predicted to embody new entry and midtier AirPods and presumably a brand new USB-C model of the over-the-ear AirPods Max, which could additionally get new colours, adaptive audio, and higher noise cancellation.

The brand new AirPods fashions will exchange the second- and third-generation variations, in response to Gurman, with two new fashions. The midtier mannequin is rumored to have a Professional-style design with noise cancellation, plus audio system within the charging case for Discover My assist.

Apple’s third-gen AirPods reportedly haven’t offered in addition to the second-generation fashions. The third era’s increased price ticket and an ungainly mixture of the AirPods Professional form with out detachable ear suggestions is perhaps responsible. The 2 new fashions nonetheless received’t get ear suggestions, however their USB-C charging circumstances will full Apple’s transition from Lightning for iPhone equipment.

No, no, no, not the iPhone Mini. Sorry to my fellow one-hander smartphone customers. (I nonetheless rock an iPhone 13 Mini and am ready to see if Apple ever swings again). What Apple is planning, although, in response to Gurman, is a brand new Mac Mini, one that’s practically as small as an Apple TV. The brand new Mac Mini is predicted to ship to warehouses this month, and an M Professional chip model would possibly are available October. Contemplating the quick timeframe, there’s a risk we may hear in regards to the new Mac Mini on the iPhone occasion, nevertheless it may additionally get its personal occasion, just like the prime-time one Apple pulled final yr for the colourful iMac M3 refresh.

Replace, September ninth: Modified newest rumors for Apple Watch Extremely, iPhone 16, and AirPods Max.