Apple to hold Sept. 14 event for new iPhone line, other devices

Apple Inc. has acceptable the day for its biggest merchandise motorboat of the year: Sept. 14. That's erstwhile the institution is acceptable to unveil its latest enactment of iPhones and different products up of a captious vacation season.

The presentation, which features the tag enactment "California streaming," volition instrumentality spot astatine 10 a.m. Pacific clip adjacent Tuesday. Like each of Apple's launches since 2020, the lawsuit volition beryllium held virtually owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cupertino, California-based exertion elephantine has been readying 4 caller iPhones, arsenic good arsenic Apple Watches with larger screens, Bloomberg has reported. Apple has besides been moving connected revamped entry-level AirPods earbuds and caller MacBook Pros. Apple typically holds aggregate launches successful the fall, truthful not each caller instrumentality for 2021 whitethorn look adjacent week. Last year, it held 3 events crossed 2 months.

The autumn merchandise play is captious for Apple, with analysts estimating that the institution volition make $120 cardinal successful gross during the vacation quarter. That would beryllium an all-time record.

The caller iPhones are expected to person the aforesaid 5.4-inch, 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch surface sizes arsenic past year's iPhone 12, but the devices volition see camera upgrades similar a video mentation of Portrait mode, enactment for the higher-quality ProRes video signaling solution and much precocious filters system. Also coming to this year's models are faster A15 processors, a smaller cutout astatine the apical of the surface and show improvements similar a faster refresh rate.

Apple has besides been readying a slew of outer features for emergencies, specified arsenic a mechanics for reaching first-responder services and texting cardinal contacts. While the caller iPhone hardware whitethorn enactment the features, they aren't expected to go disposable until sometime adjacent year.

The caller Apple Watches volition diagnostic the archetypal redesign to the merchandise since the Series 4 successful 2018. The caller models volition person flatter edges and displays, successful summation to a sizable summation to the surface sizes. They'll diagnostic 41-millimeter and 45-millimeter cases, up from 40 and 44 millimeters.

The larger exemplary volition besides person a surface of astir 1.9 inches diagonally, up from 1.78 inches. And it volition see a faster processor and updated wireless technology. But the watches person faced accumulation snags, which could effect successful shortages.

Also coming this autumn are the caller MacBook Pros, iPads and AirPods. The MacBook Pros volition beryllium Apple's archetypal high-end computers to modulation implicit to customized processors. And they'll people the archetypal redesign to the MacBook Pro since 2016. The caller models volition see flatter edges and the removal of the Touch Bar portion connected the keyboard. They besides volition connection MagSafe magnetic charging.

The caller AirPods volition look akin to the AirPods Pro, but deficiency pricier features similar sound cancellation. Apple hasn't refreshed the entry-level earbuds since aboriginal 2019, but it released AirPods Max headphones past December.

The institution is readying 2 caller iPads for this fall. First, an update to the basal iPad geared toward schools. That mentation volition get a faster processor and a thinner design. Second is the biggest overhaul to the iPad mini since the merchandise archetypal debuted successful 2012. The caller mentation volition person a larger surface and thinner borders.

Alongside the caller hardware, Apple volition besides rotation retired the antecedently announced iOS and iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, tvOS 15 and macOS Monterey bundle updates. Apple typically gives merchandise timing for those updates astatine these types of merchandise launches.

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