Apple just wrapped up an event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, where it unveiled new versions of the iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch. Here is what Apple announced: iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple just unveiled the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which join the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus the company announced earlier. These are Apple’s more premium phones that have nicer screens and cameras than the regular models.
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro has a 6.3-inch display, and the Apple 16 Pro Max has a 6.9-inch display, larger than those of previous models, which measured in at 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, respectively. The new models also have the “thinnest borders on any Apple product,” Apple said, calling them “by far our best iPhone displays ever.” The titanium is nearly half the weight of stainless steel and is “more scratch resistant than other forms of titanium others have used.”
The four finishes include white, black, natural and “desert.”
The company also said the new iPhone 16 Pro Max has “the best iPhone battery life ever” but did not offer additional details.
The new iPhone Pro models include an A18 Pro chip with second-generation 3-nanometer transistors and a new 16-core neural engine that powers Apple Intelligence, designed specifically for generative artificial intelligence workloads, the company said, leading to a 17% increase in total system memory bandwidth. It is “even faster and more efficient than A18,” the company said.
The A18 Pro chip also powers new camera features, per Apple, including a new 48-megapixel “fusion camera,” which can read data 2x faster, and a 48-megapixel ultrawide camera that allows for more detail in wide-angle shots. The 5x telephoto camera offers more detail for zoom photos.
Apple also introduced video capture in 4K at 120 frames per second, the iPhone camera’s “highest resolution and frame rate yet.”
The Pro models have four “studio-quality” mics with reduced noise, designed in part for vocal and acoustic recordings, the company said, as well as spatial audio capture. A new “Audio Mix” feature, which Apple called an “industry first,” uses machine learning to identify and separate background elements from a user’s speech, the company said.
Apple said a new update to Voice Memos, coming “later this year,” will allow people to layer other tracks atop previously recorded voice memos. For example, the feature could help musicians testing out song ideas layer a guitar track over a vocal track they have previously recorded.
The iPhone 16 Pro starts at $999, and the Pro Max starts at $1,199, Apple said. Both models will be available for preorder on Friday, with in-store sales starting on Sept. 20.
— Hayden Field
The iPhone 16 starts at $799 and the iPhone 16 Plus starts at $899
First Apple Intelligence features will launch in beta next month for iPhone 16
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi is talking about the company’s new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many of these features were already announced at Apple’s developers conference in June, and the first set of features will be available in a free software update next month.
Apple Intelligence is available on the new iPhone 16 phones and the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
He said Apple Intelligence operates across language, images, action and personal context. Federighi said data is never stored or shared with Apple, and independent experts can verify this privacy promise.
One feature Federighi highlighted is the new generative emoji feature, which will allow users to create custom emojis by typing in a few words. Users can also type in words to pull up photos and videos they want to find.
Federighi said Apple Intelligence marks the start of a new era for its voice assistant Siri. Users can prompt Siri with text; ask questions with their voices, even if they stumble over their words; pull up specific details from text conversations; and more.
Features such as generating emojis and a new Visual Intelligence feature will come later. Visual Intelligence lets you do things such as take a picture of a dog to find out what breed it is.
— Ashley Capoot
Apple just announced the iPhone 16, which it says was built from the ground up for Apple Intelligence.
The new iPhone has:
- Aerospace-grade aluminum
- 85% recycled content in the enclosure
- Two size options: 6.1 inches for iPhone 16 and 6.7 inches for iPhone 16 Plus
- Customizable action buttons (for example, flashlight at night and calendar during day)
- All-new “camera control” button to provide instant access to camera with one click, as well as the ability to adjust various camera features by sliding your finger
- A brand-new A18 chip created for iPhone 16, optimized for running large generative models and with a 2x faster neural engine
- New 48-megapixel camera, 4x the resolution of iPhone 14
- New ultrawide camera that allows for automatic focus and more light capture in low-light situations
- Spatial photos
- Customizable, pinnable collections in iOS 18 photo gallery
Apple said the new A18 chip created for iPhone 16 has 3-nanometer technology and four efficiency cores, which are used in nearly every experience on iPhone, including Apple Intelligence. The chip delivers up to 30% higher sustained performance for gaming, Apple said.
It is also up to 60% faster than the CPU in iPhone 12, and the speed challenges high-end desktop PCs, Apple said, adding that the GPU on the iPhone 16 is up to 40% faster than in the iPhone 15.
— Hayden Field
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