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Apple just announced a bunch of new health tracking features alongside its new smartwatch lineup — but you might not need to upgrade your device to get access to them. With the launch of watchOS 26 next week, Apple will bring hypertension notifications, live translation, and the new wrist flick gesture to the Watch Series 9 and newer, along with the last-gen Watch Ultra 2.Apple’s new hypertension notifications use data from the watches’ existing optical heart sensor to “analyze how a user’s blood vessels respond to the beats of the heart.” An algorithm will then review this data over a…
I took a first look at the battery pack this afternoon, and it has a significantly slimmer design than the old version. This version of the battery pack is thinner and longer, stretching as far across the back of the phone as it can before bumping into the camera bar. Slimming it down reduces the potential battery size, but it makes the pack more appropriately balanced with the phone as a result. The new model didn’t feel goofy to hold in the same way that the thick old version did.Applying a battery pack to the super-slim iPhone Air comes with…
The Apple Watch line-up has once again had its annual refresh of Cupertino’s best smartwatches. 2025 sees the arrival of the Apple Watch Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3. While these watches bring a fair bit of polish, they’re hardly revolutionary – more focusing on generational upgrades. Still, there are a few shiny new tricks up their sleeves – and a price tag to match. So which one should you slap on your wrist? Design & build: now with more buzzwords Design-wise, Apple hasn’t strayed too far from the path. The Series 11 is sleeker than ever, thinner and…
Knowing which the best iPhone used to be easy – you just had to choose the colour and the storage capacity. It was guaranteed to be among the best smartphones on sale. But now, things are not so simple. From Mini to Plus to Pro to Pro Max, Apple’s flagship phones ship in more variants than ever before. And just to muddy the waters further, the mobile maker still sells a few of its former headline handsets from previous generations, as well as the entry-level SE for buyers on a budget. So there’s an Apple smartphone for everyone. The tricky…
Inside Apple’s splashy iPhone 17 lineup is a new chip: the N1. It’s a wireless networking chip made in-house by Apple, allowing its devices to support the latest networking technologies, including Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the smart home protocol Thread.Apple previously used chips made by Broadcom to power Bluetooth and Wi-Fi within its smartphones. But now, Apple says the N1 chip will help boost the performance and reliability of features like AirDrop and Personal Hotspot. The iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, as well as the iPhone Air, will all ship with the N1.In addition to the…
Apple’s big fall event just wrapped up, and we rushed out of the Steve Jobs Theater to get our hands on the latest iPhones. Here’s a look at the new iPhone 17, Apple’s base model this year, which is joined by the thinner iPhone Air and beefier iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max — there’s no Plus this time around.The first place to start is the rear camera. Not because a lot has changed here, but rather because it hasn’t: while the iPhone 17 Pro and Air have both adopted new horizontal camera “plateaus,” the regular 17 has the same…
At today’s Apple launch event, the iPhone 17 was revealed – and if you’re thinking that you’ve seen it before, you’re not entirely wrong. The newest iPhone looks remarkably like last year’s iPhone 16. But don’t write it off just yet – because this is shaping up to be the quiet hero of Apple’s new iPhone line-up. First up, screen size is up to 6.3 inches, matching last year’s Pro. You can thank slimmer bezels for the extra screen real estate, and the Dynamic Island is here to stay. That larger size is now the baseline – and there’s no…
AirPods are comfortably the best-selling true wireless earbuds in the world and the excellent AirPods Pro 2 and newer AirPods 4 hammer home that advantage. But, given the various price points, deciding are the best AirPods for you is a difficult task – especially when there are so many rivals we consider among the best wireless earbuds on sale. In addition to the super-expensive AirPods Max, Apple actually has four pairs of wireless buds – the AirPods Pro (2nd gen), AirPods (3rd gen), AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) and AirPods (2nd gen) and that’s before you get to its…
Apple’s hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. But during the one-hour-and-fifteen-minute presentation, which was considerably shorter than usual, there was one notable buzzword missing from a good chunk of the fanfare: AI.Although CEO Tim Cook said during the livestream that the company was “taking the biggest leap ever for iPhone,” there were only cursory mentions of Apple Intelligence during the new iPhone unveiling.Yes, the phones represent “advancements in Apple silicon, hardware, and software,” per Apple, meaning they’re better for gaming, photos, speed, battery life, and…
Following Apple’s “Awe dropping” event today, we’ve been able to try out all the new Apple Watch models announced today including the Series 11, the Ultra 3, and the refreshes SE 3.The entry-level Apple Watch SE was last updated in 2022 with the second-generation model, but the new SE 3, which starts at $249 for a 40 millimeter model, has gained some features from older Apple Watch models released since the SE 2’s debut, as well as the new Ultra 3 and Series 11 announced today. It will support both faster 5G cellular speeds and now charge twice as fast,…
At today’s Apple event, the tech giant finally lifted the curtain on the heavily rumoured iPhone Air – and yes, it’s absurdly thin. It even ditches the 17 – Apple wants to make it clear this is something special. We’re talking 5.6mm at its slimmest point, which is slimmer than Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge. Apple reckons it is “impossibly light” yet still managed to cram everything you know, need, and love about the iPhone into this thin frame. The iPhone Air isn’t a replacement for now killed Plus model, but it does slot between the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro…
The new iPhone 17 line-up was unveiled at Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event on 9 September. There’s a shake-up in the line-up, with the all-new iPhone Air replacing the Plus model. Apple’s annual autumnal ritual of top smartphone upgrades is back, with the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air now squaring off. There’s plenty new under the hood – and a surprising amount that’s stayed the same. While we’re yet to get our hands on the whole range, I’ve been pouring over every little detail about the new smartphones. There’s a lot to like, no…