Everything Apple Announced (September 2023): iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra, AirPods Pro 2

There are additionally two fancier fashions of iPhone, the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. They’ve bought the same-sized screens as their inexpensive counterparts, but they appear greater as a result of Apple has slimmed the bezel across the screens by just a few millimeters. It additionally modified up the supplies, changing the chrome steel physique of the cellphone with titanium that’s been given a brushed end. Apple says the brand new materials makes the telephones lighter and tougher to smash. The Pro fashions get a beefed up processor—Apple’s A17 Pro chip—which the corporate says will get sooner efficiency and higher battery life. There’s additionally a change to the iPhones ring button on the aspect of the system. Now the button can be utilized to launch apps just like the digicam or recorder. The Pro telephones get a extra refined (and boring) coloration palette, coming in black, white, blue, and “natural” titanium.

All iPhone fashions now have Apple’s dynamic island, which turns the front-facing digicam pinhole on the display right into a responsive bubble that may show notifications. (The function was launched on the iPhone 14 Pro final yr.) The iPhone 15 begins at $799, and the Plus is $899. The pricier telephones begin at $999 for the Pro and $1,199 for the Pro Max.

Apple Watch

There are two new Apple Watches, the Series 9 and Ultra 2. The base mannequin Series 9 bought a brand new S9 chip and a brand new ultra-wideband location-sniffing chip like those within the new iPhones.

The S9 chip allows a pair different fascinating new options. One, Siri requests can now be processed on the system itself, which in idea means easy requests like making a be aware or checking the calendar don’t need to journey to the cloud and may be processed with out a knowledge connection. More notable is the brand new Double Tap gesture management. Tapping collectively the thumb and index finger of your watch hand twice in fast succession prompts the first button in an app, so you may double-tap to finish a name, silence an alarm, or begin and cease a timer.

The Series 9 Watch has a show that will get twice as vivid because the earlier mannequin (as much as 2,000 nits) and likewise as dim as 1nit. The Series 9 nonetheless will get a not-great 18 hours of battery life.