What to expect from Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ iPhone 16 event

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Apple is getting ready to announce the iPhone 16, which will surely be its most powerful and best-camera-having phone yet (at least for the Pro models). It’s also expected to be the first iPhone to launch with Apple Intelligence across the board.

In addition to the iPhone 16 lineup and a slate of new watches and AirPods, Apple is expected to show more AI features, like the ability to understand what’s onscreen, along with features it introduced at WWDC in June, which include an upgraded Siri, image generation, AI rewrite, and call recording and transcription abilities.

The word “glowtime” is likely a reference to the glow effect that appears around the edges of the screen when Siri is activated in the latest developer betas of iOS 18. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, “glow” is also the internal name for macOS Sequoia, which will likely release after the event at around the same time as iOS 18.

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Apple’s iPhone 16 event will be live and in person in Cupertino, California, on September 9th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, and The Verge will be there live blogging all the news. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube, Apple TV, and Apple’s website.

Apple Intelligence will require powerful processors. Apple’s trend in the last couple of years was to give the previous generation’s top processor to the base-model iPhone and introduce a new, stronger chip for the Pro. The iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 Pro processor is the only A-series chip right now that supports Apple Intelligence, but rumors suggest all iPhone 16 models will get a new A18 chip. Beyond that, we expect new Apple Watches and additions to the AirPods lineup.