The eight biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone Air event

Apple conscionable wrapped its extensive fall hardware keynote, which featured the marquee announcement of the bladed iPhone Air, on with different iPhone 17 models, positive a suite of caller Apple Watch wearables, and the caller AirPods Pro 3 — phew, that was a lot. All of Apple’s caller tech is releasing connected September 19th.

In lawsuit you missed retired connected the lawsuit arsenic it happened, don’t worry, we’ve included each of the biggest announcements and moments from Apple’s keynote below.

Air comes to the iPhone

The biggest announcement of the lawsuit was Apple’s iPhone Air, its thinnest exemplary ever. Previously, the Air moniker was constricted to laptops and iPads, but it’s present a happening for its phones, too. The iPhone Air is 5.6mm thick, with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display, and a camera bump — “plateau,” atrocious — that spans astir the full width of the device.

Most of the iPhone Air’s hardware seems to beryllium contained successful the camera bump, leaving the remainder of the slim assemblage disposable for a battery. It runs connected the A19 Pro chip, which Apple claims tin present MacBook Pro levels of processing power, and which is besides successful the iPhone 17 Pro.

The iPhone Air includes a fewer firsts for Apple. It features the N1 chip, which controls wireless connectivity (it’ll diagnostic Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread). It besides has the C1X modem, which Apples says is 2 times faster than the last-gen modem recovered successful the iPhone 16e.

The single-lens camera strategy utilizes Apple’s Fusion camera, which pulls treble work arsenic an ultrawide lens and a 2x telephoto lens with f/1.6 aperture. Its front-facing selfie cam features Center Stage, borrowed from Apple’s laptops and iPads, to support you centered successful the frame. Center Stage aims to marque it truthful you don’t request to rotate your telephone to get a wider shot; the telephone volition automatically instrumentality aggregate photos, letting you take the harvest you want. The iPhone Air features simultaneous video signaling from the beforehand and rear cameras.

The iPhone Air starts astatine $999 for a 256GB model, and volition motorboat September 19th.

There are iPhone Air accessories, too

While Apple touted that the iPhone Air volition diagnostic all-day artillery life, it debuted a MagSafe artillery for the caller telephone that’ll let up to 40 hours of artillery life. In lawsuit you’re surviving successful a changeless authorities of fearfulness that you’ll driblet your pricey iPhone Air, Apple is selling a slim, translucent lawsuit arsenic good arsenic a bumper case. There’s besides a crossbody strap, if you privation to deterioration your iPhone Air astatine the hip.

The iPhone 17 has ProMotion, finally, and starts with 256GB of storage

Apple’s baseline iPhone for 2025 features ProMotion, allowing its 6.3-inch OLED to spell up to 120Hz for high-refresh-rate content. We’ve been waiting a agelong clip for an affordable iPhone that goes beyond 60Hz, and it’s yet here.

The iPhone 17 has Apple’s A19 chip, which is tuned for show and efficiency. Apple claims that this chip’s GPU is 20 percent faster than the A18, and 90 percent faster than the A15 Bionic successful the iPhone 14. This should marque playing games much enjoyable.

The iPhone 17 looks akin to the last-gen model. But determination are plentifulness of enhancements sandwiched in. Its dual camera system, for example, includes a 48-megapixel fusion ultrawide main camera with f/1.6 aperture that tin treble arsenic a macro lens. Its main 48-megapixel lens tin enactment arsenic a 2x 12-megapixel telephoto lens for “optical-quality” images.

Like the different iPhones announced today, the iPhone 17 features a Center Stage selfie cam. No much having to rotate the telephone for a wider changeable volition hopefully marque it a batch easier — and faster — to drawback a large pic.

The iPhone 17 Pro is much pro than ever, but antithetic than before

The caller iPhone 17 Pro has a akin camera plateau to the Air, arsenic good arsenic the almighty A19 Pro chip. It besides has the company’s durable Ceramic Shield connected some its beforehand and back. It’s disposable successful some 6.3-inch Pro and 6.9-inch Pro Max models.

What’s unsocial to the Pro compared to the different iPhones announced contiguous is its three-camera system. All 3 cameras are 48-megapixel lenses, but each tackles a antithetic niche. One is an ultrawide with macro support, 1 is simply a main lens, and 1 is an 8x telephoto lens. As with the Air, the Pro supports Center Stage selfie capabilities to support the taxable centered and present aggregate crops with 1 shot. It besides supports simultaneous signaling done its beforehand and rear main cameras.

The iPhone Pro 17 has a sleek two-toned unibody plan that we haven’t seen Apple effort before. More connected that change: this year’s Pro is made of aluminum, not titanium. Apple says its caller anodized aluminum unibody tin dissipate vigor 20 times greater than its erstwhile titanium design. Internally, it features a vapor chamber, which pulls vigor distant from the chipset. The Pro besides includes what Apple calls its biggest artillery ever successful an iPhone.

There are immoderate accessories coming for the iPhone 17 Pro, including Techwoven cases, translucent cases, and a crossbody strap.

The iPhone 17 Pro starts astatine $1,099 for a 256GB version, with up to 2TB of retention supported successful the iPhone 17 Pro Max. That mentation volition outgo a chill $1,999.

The Apple Watch Series 11 leads the complaint arsenic its archetypal 5G smartwatch

The Apple Watch Series 11 is coming connected September 19th, and dissimilar the plan overhaul introduced with past year’s Series 10, each of the upgrades for this year’s caller exemplary are interior (aside from the caller abstraction grey colour for the aluminum model, and a caller slate grey for the titanium).

The Series 11, similar the remainder of this year’s Watch lineup, has 5G connectivity, and volition person unrecorded translation capabilities.

Apple’s flagship smartwatch volition besides present hypertension notifications, for which it expects to person clearance from the FDA (the Series 9 and 10 volition enactment this, too). The Series 11 tin past up to 24 hours per charge.

The Series 11 volition commencement astatine $399 for the 42mm mentation (more for the 5G-capable version), and it’s disposable to pre-order now. It’ll motorboat connected September 19th.

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 includes Apple’s “largest show ever” successful a wearable

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 isn’t excessively antithetic successful quality from the Ultra 2, though it contains Apple’s largest show ever successful an Apple Watch. That show tin spell down to 1Hz refresh rate, letting the always-on show amusement each 2nd that’s ticking by. The Ultra 3 besides supports 5G connectivity, positive the quality to substance via outer connection erstwhile you’re disconnected the grid. Its artillery has been enhanced to past for up to 42 hours per charge. The hypertension notifications that were elaborate for the Series 11 volition enactment connected the Ultra 3, arsenic good arsenic the Ultra 2, pending FDA clearance.

This exemplary volition commencement astatine $799.

There’s an Apple Watch SE 3, for those who privation thing little expensive

The Apple Watch SE has gotten its archetypal caller hardware update since 2022. It features the S10 chip, up from the S8 chipset, with 5G enactment similar its pricier counterparts, arsenic good arsenic an always-on show for the archetypal time.

Other new, notable features coming successful this procreation see somesthesia sensors, which tin beryllium utilized for ovulation tracking. You tin besides play euphony and different audio from its built-in speaker, which was a diagnostic we wished was successful the last-gen model. I

The SE 3 is launching astatine $249.

Apple debuted AirPods Pro 3 with amended ANC and unrecorded translation

Don’t number them retired conscionable due to the fact that they look astir identical to the last-gen model. The caller $249 AirPods Pro earbuds boast respective improvements, large and small. They diagnostic Apple’s smallest-ever bosom complaint sensor, letting you way immoderate vitals without having to deterioration an Apple Watch. Durability has gotten an upgrade, too, with an IP57 rating.

The AirPods Pro 3 besides includes a unrecorded translation diagnostic that’s enabled erstwhile you clasp some stems simultaneously. You’ll perceive audio translated in-ear, portion your dependable is translated live, with transcriptions displayed connected your iPhone truthful you tin pass with others.

Apple claims that this exemplary has important enhancements to progressive sound cancellation. They’re supposedly 4 times amended than the archetypal AirPods Pro, and 2 times amended than the last-gen model. Sound has gotten a boost, excessively — peculiarly bass. There’s a caller vent connected each earbud that lets aerial determination for amended bass performance. This exemplary ships with 5 receptor tips to springiness you a amended accidental of uncovering a bully fit.

The AirPods Pro 3 ships September 19th, and is disposable to pre-order today.

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