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
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
- it is just “iPhone Air” - no “17” branding
- MagSafe battery
(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 (base 256 GB) starts at $1099
- Available September 19
OS Updates release
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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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