Apple Wanderlust Event 2023 Live Blog
Live Updates from Apple Wanderlust Event (Fall 2023) Announcements
Liveblog
Pre-roll intros start playing with Natural by Jackie Mendoza as the soundtrack.
Pre-recorded video of Tim Cook standing in the middle of Apple Park starts playing.
Apple Watch Series 9
Tim Cook gives his usual spiel about Apple innovations and promises announcements related to Apple Watch Series 9 and iPhone 15.
Tim Cook hands it over to Jeff Williams to talk about Apple Watch.
Jeff Williams hands it to Deirdre to talk about the features of Apple Watch.
Deirdre talks about the S9 SiP (System-in-Package) and the news features in Apple Watch Series 9.
Deirdre hands it back to Jeff Williams to talk about additional features in Apple Watch Series 9.
Jeff Williams talks about the double-tap gesture in Series 9.
The Series 9 uses the Neural Engine to implement double tap on Apple Watch Series 9.
Cut to Tim Cook at Apple Park welcoming Mother Nature in the boardroom.
Sketch of Apple employees updating Mother Nature on environmental impact of Apple products.
Jeff Williams talks about FineWoven material, which has a suede like feel and less environmental impact than leather.
Apple partners with Nike and Hermes on custom watchbands.
iPhone 15
Cut to Deniz to talk about wireless technologies in iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus.
These feature the A16 Bionic ship.
The iPhone 15 has 2nd gen Ultra-Wideband chip.
The Ultra-Wideband chip allows for guidance.
The iPhone 15 has Emergency SOS and FindMy via Satellite.
It also has Roadside Assistance by Satellite.
The Roadside Assistance by Satellite launches in partnership with AAA.
It is covered by AAA membership and also available separately.
All the models of iPhone 15 come with a dynamic island.
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus starts at $799 for iPhone 15 and $899 for iPhone 15 Plus with carrier activation.
iPhone 15 Pro
Cut back to Tim Cook at Apple Park.
Tim Cook talks about iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus innovations.
Tim Cook talks about the Pro models of iPhone 15.
Tim Cook hands it to “Joz” to talk about iPhone 15 Pro models.
Joz talks about the new Titanium design and the A17.
Titanium mentions that Titanium allows for the lightest pro models ever with the thinnest bezels ever.
The strength of Titanium combined with the ceramic shield front.
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max both feature the Titanium design.
Titanium features a brushed metal texture.
Instead of annodizing, PPD structure introduces color on the Titanium.
Black Titanium, White Titanium, Blue Titanium, and Raw Titanium are the available options.
The substructure is made of 100% recycled aluminium.
iPhone 15 features a press-and-hold ring-silent button instead of a switch.
Joz hands it to Sri, VP of Silicon Engineering Group.
Sri talks about the 3 nanometer A17 Pro chip.
The A17 Pro features a neural engine which is twice as fast.
The Neural Engine has onboard machine learning, which doesn’t send data to the cloud, in order to provide privacy protection.
iPhone 15 Pro also features additional privacy protection.
The A17 Pro features a brand new GPU with Apple designed Shader Architecture.
The new GPU is a 6-core design which is 20% faster, according to Sri.
It is capable of Mesh Shading, and Ray Tracing.
Cube maps approximate light reflections whereas ray tracing creates reflections in realtime.
A17 Pro has 17x faster ray tracing. This enables high quality graphics with much less power.
This considerably changes the game when it comes to mobile gaming.
A17 Pro takes mobile gaming to the next level.
Joz hands it over to the game studio partners to talk about some of the Metal and A17 Pro gaming features.
Resident Evil Village will launch on iPhone 15 Pro.
Console version of Assasin’s Creed will also be natively available on iPhone for the first time.
According to Joz, iPhone 15 Pro has the equialent of 7 camera lenses.
He hands it over to Misha Scepanovic to talk about the iPhone 15 Pro camera which is a 48 MegaPixel camera.
The new Photonic Engine uses a 48 MP image.
One can switch between 2.4, 1.8, and 4.8 focal length on the iPhone 15 Pro.
Night mode is powered by the Photonic Engine.
Night Mode portraits are enabled by the Lidar Engine.
HDR on the iPhone 15 Pro allows for greater dynamic range.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max has the longest optical zoom at 120 mm focal length.
This allows for 5x telephoto camera.
iPhone 15 Pro Max has a tetra-prism design to enable the longer focal length without a big lens.
The 12 MP Ultra Wide Camera has a 13 mm focal length.
This allows for photography in macro to 120 mm with 13, 24, 48, 86, 120mm focal length stops.
Pro-raw and Pro-res are supported on iPhone 15 Pro.
iPhone 15 allows for Pro-Res 4k to be recorded directly on external drive for allowing filmmakers to film in slow motion.
iPhone 15 Pro has Log encoding which allows for color grading in post production.
The iPhone 15 Pro allows for video to be created for Apple Vision Pro.
iPhone 15 Pro allows for creation of 3D video for Apple Vision Pro.
One can capture Spatial Video using the iPhone 15 Pro.
The iPhone 15 Pro has Titanium design, A17 Pro, customizable action button and the Pro camera system with the longest optical zoom in iPhone 15 Pro Max.
iPhone15 Pro starts at $ 999.
All new iPhone models are available for pre-order this Friday and available in Stores on Sep 22nd.
iCloud Plus has new features as well.
Joz hands it back to Tim.
Summary
Tim Cook summarizes the announcements about Apple Watch and iPhone 15 lineup. There is no “one more thing” since those usually happen at the WWDC (Spring event).
