Report: Apple to host next iPhone event on September 7th

Three things in life are inevitable: death, taxes and new iPhones in September. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that this year’s iPhone event will take place on Wednesday, September 7th.

The non-professional iPhone 14 line will shrink the size of the 5.4-inch mini display that Apple has been selling for the last couple generations, Gurman said. The standard 6.1-inch model will instead be joined by a 6.7-inch larger-screen version, matching the screen size of the current iPhone Pro Max model. But these phones will also continue to use the current Apple A15 Bionic chip and will look similar to the iPhone 13 in appearance.

The iPhone 14 Pro will reportedly be more immersive, replacing the current camera notch with a pair of cutouts for the front camera and FaceID scanner; many Android phones have already switched to similar punch-hole cutouts to save screen space. The Pro phones will also reportedly get a faster chip and an even larger triple-lens camera based on a 48MP wide-angle camera, as well as a 12MP ultra-wide and telephoto camera.

Apple also plans to introduce a new Apple Watch, the report said. The Series 8 watch will reportedly include a standard model similar to the current Series 7, as well as, as has long been rumored, a larger and “rugged”titanium model with extended battery life and additional activity tracking features.

The base Apple Watch SE will reportedly get a faster chip – the current SE uses the Apple S5, while the new one could use the S6, S7, or some newer yet unannounced chip. We hope this new SE model will be the end of the long-lived Apple Watch Series 3 that the company is still selling even though it won’t get the watchOS 9 update this fall.

The Sept. 7 announcement of new iPhones and watches likely means that at least some of the new devices will be available for purchase towards the middle of the month, roughly coinciding with the release of iOS 16 – Gurman says Apple Store employees have been told to prepare for the launch of 16 September.

Apple often hosts iPad and Mac events in October in addition to the September event, when we expect to see updates to these products, the release of macOS Ventura, and the reportedly delayed iPadOS 16. Gurman predicts we’ll finally see a budget iPad version with USB-C, new M2-based iPad Pros, and updated Mac minis and MacBook Pros before the end of the year.