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To assistance acceptable expectations up of Apple's "Wonderlust" event, we've compiled a database of products that Apple is improbable to denote successful September, but alternatively aboriginal connected successful the twelvemonth oregon successful 2026 and beyond.
M5-Powered Macs
Apple is processing caller Macs powered by the company's next-generation M5 chip, which is expected to diagnostic an enhanced ARM architecture manufactured utilizing TSMC's precocious 3-nanometer process technology.
The past clip Apple refreshed the MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac was precocious October 2024, erstwhile the machines received M4 chips. The erstwhile year, Apple dropped the M3 Macbook Pro successful October. Does that mean we volition spot caller Macs arriving aboriginal successful 2025?
It's unlikely. Rumors suggest Apple won't refresh immoderate Macs with updated M5 chips this year. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are present planned for the archetypal fractional of 2026. Apple is besides expected to refresh the iMac and Mac mini with M5 bid chips – but again, not until sometime adjacent year.
New iPad Air and iPad 12
Apple successful March 2025 updated the iPad Air with 2 seventh-generation models, adding updated M3 chips to the lineup. It released an 11th-generation mainstream iPad with an A16 spot the aforesaid month. Given Apple's caller inclination of updating the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models annually, don't expect Apple to driblet a astonishment refresh successful September. Indeed, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says updated iPad Airs and caller low-end iPads aren't going to beryllium acceptable until next year.
New Studio Display
Apple is moving connected a caller mentation of the Studio Display with the aforesaid 27-inch surface size. According to show expert Ross Young, it could beryllium upgraded to mini-LED exertion alternatively of LCD, which would bring improved opposition and HDR, accrued brightness, and amended colour accuracy.
Apple's next-generation Studio Display volition incorporate an "A19 Pro" chip, based connected Apple code reviewed by MacRumors. The A19 Pro is astir definite to debut successful the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max adjacent month. Apple is said to beryllium readying to unveil the caller Studio Display successful early 2026 alongside caller M5 Macs, according to Gurman.
iPhone 17e
Introduced successful February 2025, the iPhone 16e is the next-generation mentation of the iPhone SE, and it is the astir affordable iPhone that Apple sells astatine the existent time, starting astatine $599.
Apple plans to proceed with the "e" iPhone line, and determination is an iPhone 17e successful improvement for motorboat successful the archetypal fractional of 2026, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The next-generation iPhone 17e could diagnostic a caller concern design, an updated Dynamic Island, and a faster A19 chip. While the existent iPhone 16e has a notch astatine the apical of the display, the iPhone 17e could modulation to the Dynamic Island.
AirPods Max 2
Apple introduced the AirPods Max successful December 2020, truthful it's been astir 5 years since the archetypal launched. Last year, Apple updated the headphones with USB-C charging to comply with EU regulations, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller colour options, but nary different meaningful improvements were made.
AirPods Max fans hoping for a second-generation mentation of Apple's over-ear headphones shouldn't clasp their breath, though. Gurman precocious said they were stuck successful a commercial limbo – "too fashionable for Apple to halt selling them, and not fashionable capable for the institution to put a ton of clip and wealth into creating a caller version." Earlier this year, expert Ming-Chi Kuo said AirPods Max 2 could enter wide accumulation successful 2027.
"HomePad" – HomePod With a Screen
Apple is rumored to beryllium moving connected a astute location hub that has been nicknamed the "HomePad." The instrumentality is expected to person a quadrate iPad-like surface that tin beryllium attached to a HomePod-like talker base, oregon it tin beryllium mounted connected a wall.
Siri integration is expected, with ‌Siri‌ capable to reply questions akin to however the ‌HomePod‌ works. In fact, aft primitively aiming for a merchandise earlier this year, Apple has reportedly delayed the motorboat of the location hub owed to the issues that it has had processing the Apple Intelligence mentation of ‌Siri‌. Bloomberg present reports that the instrumentality volition beryllium introduced early adjacent year.
Possibly, Maybe
In summation to the iPhone 17 series, caller Apple Watch models and AirPods Pro 3, Apple is expected to hole different products for merchandise this year. Still, the institution is improbable to gully excessively overmuch attraction distant from its flagship smartphones, and whitethorn take to prevention the pursuing products for a abstracted lawsuit oregon motorboat them via property merchandise successful October oregon November:
What are you looking guardant to astir from Apple this year? Let america cognize successful the comments.
This article, "What Not to Expect astatine Apple's 'Awe Dropping' September 9 Event" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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