Everything Apple Announced: iPhone Air, iPhone 17, Apple Watches, AirPods Pro 3

Another September, another Apple event. Today, Apple revealed its caller iPhone 17 lineup successful regular and Pro models, arsenic good arsenic nan caller and very bladed iPhone Air. The institution besides showed disconnected nan caller Apple Watches—Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE—and nan refreshed AirPods Pro 3.

There wasn’t overmuch talk of software, aliases astir Apple’s ongoing efforts to seamlessly merge AI into each its products. But we sewage tons of hardware! Here’s everything Apple announced today.

New iPhones

There are 4 iPhones arsenic usual, but Apple has changed things up rather a spot this year. Gone is nan Plus model, and successful its spot is nan iPhone Air, a caller ultra-slim and lightweight iPhone that’s conscionable 5.6 millimeters thick.

You only get 1 camera connected this model, though, and Apple seems to beryllium utilizing high-density silicon-carbon batteries. The institution is claiming nan aforesaid 27 hours of video playback that nan iPhone 16 Plus was tin of, moreover though this telephone is overmuch thinner and presumably has a slimmer battery. We’ll spot really it performs erstwhile we trial it. There’s a caller low-profile MagSafe artillery battalion to travel it successful lawsuit you’re worried (or Apple is worried) astir battery.

The iPhone 17 Pro models person a wholly caller look, pinch a caller “Camera Plateau” design. The highlights present are a vapor enclosure cooling strategy that helps modulate nan power generated by nan beefier processor, and a 48-megapixel telephoto camera that hits 4X optical zoom and 8X “optical-like” zoom.

All of these phones employment Apple’s caller N1 wireless networking chip, which features Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support, though only nan iPhone Air comes pinch Apple’s homebrewed C1X modem. That’s apt because nan C1X doesn’t support millimeter-wave 5G (only sub-6).

Perhaps much breathtaking is nan caller 18-megapixel selfie camera, which supports nan Center Stage characteristic that automatically adjusts nan framing to support you centered. It besides has Dual Capture support, truthful you tin nonstop guidance videos each time mundane and telephone yourself a Twitch streamer.

The guidelines iPhone 17 starts astatine $799. The iPhone Air is $999, nan iPhone 17 Pro is $1,099, and nan iPhone Pro Max is $1,199. All iPhones will beryllium disposable connected September 19.

And this wasn't successful nan presentation, but iOS 26 will beryllium disposable connected iPhones aged and caller connected September 15. —Julian Chokkattu

3 New Watches!

Compared to past year’s somewhat lackluster 10th anniversary of nan Apple Watch, this twelvemonth sees a complete revamp, including a agelong overdue update of nan company’s entry-level Watch SE. This year, nan Watch SE has nan latest S10 chip, which intends that it yet has a batch of nan features disposable connected much costly watches, for illustration nan slumber search and outer messaging. Satellite messaging became disposable connected nan iPhone past year, and is now disposable connected each 3 watches. You tin matter your family and friends erstwhile you’re disconnected nan grid via your watch. If your watch detects that you’ve collapsed aliases had an incident, it will besides nonstop your location via outer to emergency services and contacts.

The latest update to nan Watch Series 11 and Watch Ultra 3’s vaunted bid of health features is hypertension notification, which Apple expects to beryllium FDA-cleared wrong nan month.

Over a play of 30 days, nan watch’s optical bosom sensor will cheque if you person symptoms of hypertension, which affects arsenic galore arsenic 1 retired of 3 of nan world organization and tin origin everything from bosom attacks to kidney illness to stroke.

This is successful summation to hardware upgrades for illustration wide-angle OLED displays that we saw connected past year’s Series 10, on with—this is huge—a afloat 24 hours of artillery life connected nan Series 11 and up to 72 hours of artillery life connected nan Watch Ultra 3 successful low-power mode. The Apple Watches person had notoriously mediocre artillery life for a decade, and now you tin (probably) deterioration your Apple Watch each done nan nighttime aliases for a play camping trip! Amazing!