We invite you to join AppleVis this September for coverage of Apple's product announcements and software releases.
Apple has announced an 'awe dropping' media event for September 9, 2025.
At the event, Apple is widely expected to announce multiple new models of the iPhone and Apple Watch; with the possibility that other products may be refreshed as well. In addition, Apple is also expected to announce the release dates for Version 26 of the operating systems for all of its platforms; including for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
You can watch the event live on Apple's Website at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time/17:00 UTC on September 9. Our past experience has been that the live stream on Apple's website, as well as in the TV app, offers audio description. To enable Audio Description on iOS and iPadOS, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio Descriptions, and be sure the toggle is set to "on." This setting can also be enabled on macOS by going to System Settings > Accessibility > Audio descriptions, and toggling the "Play audio descriptions when available" switch on.
Alex Hall will be returning to AppleVis to offer his take on the event, and as always, it promises to be an entertaining and thought-provoking read. Look for Alex's recap to be posted late evening U.S. time on Apple Event Day. We will also be recording a roundtable about all things 'Awe Dropping' and hope to have that released sometime later in the week. As has been the case with all recent episodes of our podcast, the roundtable will include a transcript.
In addition to our coverage of Apple's September 2025 event, we also have a wealth of content in the works for the upcoming '26' software releases; including our traditional lists of new and fixed bugs in iOS/iPadOS and macOS (augmented, with much gratitude, by reports from members of our community through our Community Bug Program), written and podcast content on what's new and changed in these releases, and perhaps a surprise or two along the way. We hope you'll join us throughout the month and are looking forward to sharing our content with the community.
What are you hoping Apple will announce at the September event? What are you looking forward to in the '26' software releases? Please do let us know by posting a comment.
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Hope for the future
That all VoiceOver bugs have been squashed, exorcised, repaired, and otherwise fixed in this release and all future releases of apple's proprietary software, most notably iOS and macOS.
Thank you, that is all. 🙂
I'm hoping for really fat…
I'm hoping for really fat phones. I feel a skinny phone is body shaming and makes my hands look pudgy.
I think we all already know what is coming:
1. iPhone Air - test bed for one half of the foldable coming next year. Screen somewhere between standard and max. A fashion phone (skinny), with various compromises, a single speaker and reduced battery size being the most important for us, though I'm still hoping they slipped in a second speaker.
2. Same old same old with the other phones.
3. Maybe the new iPods Pro 3 which, I have to admit, will probably be a day one buy for me. I think the AirPods Pro, for us with their transparency mode, and general refinement, are the best product apple has created in years. Interested to know what they've improved. The sound could certainly use a touch up, fit too, maybe. I'd like to have a means of plugging the charging block into a 3.5 jack for travel and gaming.
4. Outliers are HomePod Mini, meh, maybe, but I'm not really sure what they will offer as an upgrade. The sound is okay on the originals and doubt that will improve much unless they grow and become non-mini and siri is stil a fool. New apple TV box, again, iterative, you'll probably not notice any difference though there is a rumour of a camera being included which could open the door to some movement based games and FaceTime, of course.
6. Nearly forgot... Apple watches. Same old same old. Wil be a spec bump we won't notice and a gated improvement for the Ultra 3 and 11. Guessing better cell on the Ultra, maybe blood-pressure trend monitoring, IE, it will not give you a full result but can tell you if there is variation over a long period. New colours... There is supposed to be a sleep score coming too which considering it isn't part of the beta, suggests it will be gated to the newer devices. I'd love to have seen a smaller ultra with the rugged casing. I'm A big guy, 6.1, 210, for you americans, but weirdly girly wrists. I blame steroids when I was a nipper.
Skinny wrist Ollie out...
Oh, and a hope, new AirPods…
Oh, and a hope, new AirPods Max... I love mine. If I lost them I'd buy them again, as much as a fool I'd feel for doing so but, latest reports suggest there won't be any upgrades for a long long time. They are magnificent sound, perfect for us with how they connect and disconnect from our phone, untying voiceover without having to turn them off, but they are stil way too expensive. I can imagine a price drop being announced, £399,/$399, which would get them to fly and hopefully get Cooky more interested in a refresh, but I don't hold out too much hope.