Everything Apple Announced Today: iPhone 16, Apple Watch Series 10, New AirPods Leave a comment

Personalised spatial audio can be coming to AirPods 4, together with the power to work together with Siri with gestures like nodding your head to just accept a name. There is a new charging case that offers you a complete battery lifetime of 30 hours and may be charged with both USB-C or, when you have the ANC model, wi-fi charging. Each variants of the brand new AirPods 4 can be found for preorder now and can be launched September 20.

Apple additionally revealed some new colours for the over-ear AirPods Max headphones, which now cost over USB-C as an alternative of Lightning. The brand new colours embrace midnight, blue, orange, purple, and starlight. Apple launched its first AirPods Max in 2020. They had been very good—and in addition very costly—so it looks like not a lot can be altering on that entrance. The new AirPods Max maintain regular on the similar worth, $549, and also will be obtainable September 20.

Apple isn’t making a brand new set of AirPods Professional, however it’s enhancing its listening to safety know-how for the AirPods Professional 2. One function reduces the decibels coming into your ears in loud environments, so you possibly can put on them like earplugs. (It’s going to be enjoyable to go to a live performance and see everybody sporting AirPods whereas the band is enjoying.) Within the Professional 2 fashions, Apple can be providing a scientific listening to check to gauge your listening to loss, in addition to over-the-counter listening to help certification that allow the AirPods double as true listening to aids. That is certain to be disruptive to the rising OTC listening to help market. —Boone Ashworth

Siri and Apple Intelligence

The newly revamped Siri and Apple Intelligence options is not going to be obtainable on the launch of iOS 18 nor the discharge of the iPhone 16. They’ll arrive by way of an iOS 18.1 software program replace within the coming weeks. We’ve gone into extra element about these options in our iOS 18 function roundup, however to summarize (as AI likes to do), these new additions assist carry synthetic intelligence options to the forefront on the iPhone.