Also in 2019, Apple revamped its AirPods in the form of the AirPods Pro featuring active noise cancellation, and plunged face-first into gaming with Apple Arcade and streaming with Apple TV+. The Apple Watch Series 5 got a display that didn't go dark, as well as a bunch of health and safety improvements. It was a great year for iPads the relatively cheap iPad 10 incorporated the Apple Pencil, and the new iPad Pro proved to be a beast. Before that, the 2019 Keynote revealed the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, the latter of which marked a better-late-than-never improvement for Apple's smartphone cameras (still, you just cannot beat the Google Pixel 4). While you weren't paying close attention to anything but societal demise this spring, Apple went off-script and released an iPhone SE with a single camera for $399-small, lightweight, cheap, and blessed with a home button. Now, some catch-up on the last year in Apple. In the only update from this Keynote that really touched on iPhones, Apple revealed that iOS 14 and iPad OS 14 will showcase new app widgets and homescreen modules. The new Air also works with the Apple Pencil 2, and there’s an iPad Air version of the Magic keyboard, which allows for a lot more mobility. Screen elements like true tone and lamination will help with the visuals and glare. It comes in new colors, too: rose gold, green, and blue. It now features the more angular design seen with the Pro, and a full screen with no home button (but Touch ID built into the lock button on the side). While the 8th Gen iPad got some nice internal upgrades, the iPad Air got a massive overhaul. The Apple Watch 6 is also equipped with a brighter display for sunny days, so if you want to confer with whatever monstrosity you made on Animoji for your watch screen while at the beach or whatever, you can.Īnd, you can control your children, with family-orientated Apple Watch features. They nearly fill a Swiss-engineering-esque gap in the face gallery. Now, Apple offers illustrated faces, well-designed numerals to mark the hours, and some really nice and simple two-toned circles. Save for dual-tone gradients and some customization for pretty bland faces-and the option to have Buzz and Woody fooling around on the face while you tried to check the damn weather forecast-there were few decent options. Kidding, of course Apple Watches aren't trying to steal our humanity yet.įinally, Apple Watch 6 will come with some good watch faces. It’s rumored that the Product Red watch actually draws blood to both measure your blood color and become sentient. It costs $9.99 per month, and though a new Apple Watch purchase comes with three months free, that ain’t cheap.īeyond health and activity features, the Apple Watch Series 6 comes in four colors: gold and graphite, along with a navy blue and Product Red red. It’ll sync your Apple Watch with an Apple device that has a watchable screen (your iPhone, your Apple TV) to play a trainer’s workout and also display realtime statistics about your performance as tracked by the watch. Apple also gave a rundown on Apple Fitness+, a new subscription service for the Apple Watch that goes the way of Peloton, Mirror, and Fight Camp. Generally speaking, blood oxygen level indicates good or bad breathing and circulation for the heart and lungs. It’ll feature a sleep tracker (in case you actually wear a watch when you sleep), a hand-washing timer (very timely for 2020), and blood oxygen tracking (the watch quite literally tracks the color of your blood). Understandably, as even outside of the pandemic wellness is all anyone can talk about. The Apple Watch Series 6 goes hard with health. What follows is everything worth knowing that Apple actually revealed. Still, that leaves a slew of other Apple products about due for upgrades: the Apple Watch, the iPad, and the AirPods in particular.įor this 2020 Keynote, the tech blogs were aflame with rumors about an Apple Watch 6 that tracks blood oxygen levels, a new iPad Air, over-the-ear AirPods, even a new HomePod. The pandemic slowed production down in many factories, including those that make iPhone parts, so Apple confirmed that the new generation of iPhone (presumably the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro) will be delayed beyond the traditional September release date and announced at a future Keynote. Unsurprisingly, this September Apple Keynote won't be like those of the past. Apple really did train the world to have a Pavlovian response to the word "keynote." Still, old habits die hard on the day of a September Apple Keynote. There's a lot going on, 99.9 percent of it bad, leaving scant hours to pick through blogs for fresh meat like the rabid tech vulture you were a blissful year ago. You'd be forgiven for not giving as many as two shits about new technology this year.
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