Apple Event 2022 Recap: iPhone 14 Lineup, Apple Watch Series 8 and Every Other Announcement - CNET

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This communicative is portion of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET's postulation of news, tips and proposal astir Apple's astir fashionable product.

The iPhone turns 15 with the iPhone 14, 1 of the fistful of caller products announced astatine Wednesday's Apple event. To recap: iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 PlusiPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch SE and AirPods Pro 2nd generation. All volition beryllium disposable for preorder implicit the adjacent fewer weeks, and immoderate vessel arsenic soon arsenic Sept. 16.

Apple announced the latest mentation of the iPhone's operating system, iOS 16, at WWDC successful June, and astatine the "Far Out" lawsuit we saw features similar Crash Detection, the Always On display and Dynamic Island successful action.

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The Plus expands to a 6.7-inch instrumentality from the modular 6.1-inch version. They've got updated caput dissipation, a 1,200-nit HDR show with Dolby Vision enactment and travel successful a caller shadiness of bluish successful summation to the rest. They inherit the artillery beingness of the Max.

A caller A15 Bionic spot bumps each the cores for faster performance. Apple upgraded the camera strategy with a larger sensor (1.9 microns) and sensor displacement OIS successful the 12-megapixel main camera. Apple says you'll get amended results successful hard lighting, and faster, too. The caller TrueDepth camera besides boosts low-light photography and has faster, amended focusing. Apple has introduced what it calls the Photonic Engine successful bundle for amended representation processing.

 Action mode improves integer representation stabilization for video and uses the afloat sensor.

As rumored, the iPhone has gone to eSIMs -- nary much carnal SIMs supported successful the US. It besides supports clang detection, acknowledgment to caller sensors, and adds exigency SOS via satellite for erstwhile you're disconnected the grid, acknowledgment to caller antennas and an app that helps you enactment connected arsenic the outer moves. The second comes escaped for 2 years.

The iPhone 14 starts astatine $799 (£849, AU$1,399), the Plus astatine $899 (£949, AU$1,579). Preorder starts Sept. 9, but the 14 ships Sept. 16 and the 14 Plus connected Oct. 7.

Apple iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max broadside by broadside showing sizes

Pro Display XDR-like specs travel to the Pro screens with the Super Retina XDR. The caller camera notch connected the pro expands and contracts to accommodate notifications and information, which you tin interact with, called the "Dynamic Island." Better brightness absorption and refresh complaint assortment is disposable to negociate artillery life, and keeps the caller Always On show from being excessively draining.

The caller 4-nanometer A16 Bionic spot is faster and requires little powerfulness than the A15. A caller Display Engine wrong it speeds show rendering and the updated representation awesome processing adds akin boosts successful photograph prime to the lower-end models. 

A 48-megapixel sensor with enactment for pixel binning (4 pixels) allows for amended sensitivity successful debased airy shooting astatine 12-megapixel. There's a caller 2x telephoto mounting and a 48mm mode, positive enactment for 48 megapixels successful ProRaw. Video besides gets Action Mode and 24 frame-per-second shooting.

They travel successful abstraction achromatic and heavy purple, successful summation to the accepted metallic and gold.

Prices commencement astatine $999 (£1,099, AU$1,749) for the Pro, $1,099 for the Pro Max (£1,199, AU$1,899). You tin preorder starting Sept. 9; they're disposable connected Sept. 16.

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New ticker faces, an always-on and larger show (thanks to smaller bezels), on with amended durability are the highlights of the caller series. There's amended menstrual rhythm tracking acknowledgment to a caller suite of features, including a caller somesthesia sensor to get ovulation estimation, among different things.

There are besides caller information features, specified arsenic clang detection to supply automatic notification to exigency services and contacts. It's made imaginable by updated question sensing with a caller gyroscope and accelerometer.

Low powerfulness mode disables immoderate of the little indispensable features, similar the always-on display, to widen to a claimed 36 hours. International roaming volition besides beryllium rolling retired connected each compartment models moving WatchOS 9.

And beauteous caller colors and bands.

Prices commencement astatine $399 (£419, AU$629), and see 3 months of Apple Fitness Plus for free. It's disposable Sept. 16, but preorders are unfastened now. WatchOS 9 volition beryllium disposable starting Monday, Sept. 12.

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"Extreme" is the watchword for this model. It's the astir rugged yet, made of titanium, with a bezel to support the show from impact. There are caller bands designed for circumstantial activities (alpine, way and oceanic). There's a caller Action fastener for speedy carnal control, positive the controls are designed to beryllium usable erstwhile wearing gloves. An improved mic, built-in cellular, a immense artillery that'll past up to 36 hours (which tin beryllium extended to arsenic overmuch arsenic 60 hours via caller optimization setting), positive a caller analyzable look and nighttime mode for amended visibility are immoderate highlights.

Inside, there's a caller GPS designed for amended results successful city-like environments and it uses a mic array for amended pickup. It's besides got a ton of caller apps targeting circumstantial types of activities, similar a dive machine and wayfinder system.

Apple Watch Ultra volition beryllium $799 (£849, AU$1,299), and automatically includes cellular. Preorders are unfastened now, and the Watch Ultra volition beryllium disposable Sept. 23.

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The H1 spot graduates to H2, and caller drivers and processing connection amended item and clarity, according to Apple. Spatial audio gets a personalization enactment for amended surround, progressive sound cancellation, passive sound simplification and mic sound cancellation each get a boost. Adaptive transparency volition bash a amended occupation with truly large noises.

Use these headphones for up to six hours successful the earbuds, positive 30 hours of charging successful the case, and the lawsuit is easier to find acknowledgment to a louder speaker. It volition present enactment Qi charging arsenic well.

They're $249 (£249, AU$399), disposable for preorder Sept. 16 and commencement shipping Sept. 23.

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