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Apple iPhone Event 2025

Apple iPhone Event 2025
  • Live rough notes from the September 9, 2025 Apple iPhone event. Will refine in a later pass for flow, accuracy, and added context.

Event Overview & Context

Date: September 9, 2025
Location: Apple Park (virtual stream)

Tim Cook the “biggest leap ever for iPhone.”


AirPods Updates

AirPods Pro (3rd Gen)

Highlights:

  • Sound quality upgrades
    • Active Noise Cancellation: 2× better vs 2nd gen
    • 4× better vs original AirPods Pro
  • Breakthrough audio / computational features
  • Real‑time translations (Apple Intelligence)
  • Best fitting AirPods yet (fit enhancements implied)
  • More durable: IP57
  • New heart rate sensing - is this more accurate than Apple Watch?
  • $249 — order today

AirPods Pro 3 slide


Apple Watch

Apple Watch Series 11

  • Hypertension monitoring
  • Charges 2x faster

Apple Watch Ultra 3

  • Brighter display, thinner borders → larger usable area (same case size)
  • $799
  • Arrives September 19
  • Hypertension monitoring

NOTE: It sounds like Hypertension monitoring is coming to existing watches too and does not require new sensors/hardware.


iPhone Lineup (2025)

Apple: “Unlike anything we’ve ever created” — four new models.

iPhone 17

  • Chip: A19

iPhone 17 Air

(Chip Platform) A19 Pro

  • Fastest CPU in any smartphone
  • N1 Neural Engine
  • Wireless: Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, Thread
  • C1X (connectivity / controller?)
    • 2× faster than C1
    • More efficient vs iPhone 16 Pro generation

iPhone 17 Pro

  • Ceramic Shield
  • cooling system
  • 40% better sustained performance vs iPhone 16 Pro
  • Camera system:
    • Front: 18 MP Center Stage
    • Rear: 48 MP across all cameras
    • Fusion telephoto: 4× optical (100 mm), 8× optical (200 mm)
    • 56% larger sensor

iPhone 17 Pro camera slide

Sensor slide

  • iPhone 17 Pro (base 256 GB) starts at $1099
  • Available September 19

OS Updates release

  • the company says iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS 26, and visionOS 26 (and presumably tvOS 26 and the HomePod update) will arrive on Monday, September 15. via: SixColors

  • September 15
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