Apple ’s Glowtime case was an right-down doozy . Not only did Apple bring out the hotly foretell iPhone 16 appeal , but it lifted the lid on the redesign Apple Watch Series 10 and a whole host of minor , but meaningful , updates to the entire AirPods appeal .
However , a few product were tipped to set up alongside the latest iPhone collecting that did n’t materialize , including the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and a replacement for Apple ’s controversial finewoven iPhone case collection .
With that in idea , here ’s everything that Appledidn’tannounce at yesterday ’s launching result .
The Apple Watch Ultra 3
TheApple Watch Ultrainitially appeared in September 2022 , and theApple Watch Ultra 2made an visual aspect at last year ’s September issue , so it was pretty safe to assume that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 would make its debut at this twelvemonth ’s September result .
Even Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman , an psychoanalyst who ’s ordinarily pretty on the money with Apple - have-to doe with prediction , claimed as recently asthree Clarence Day before the eventthat “ the company is preparing to update all of its Apple Watch models at once . There will be a novel humbled - end Apple Watch SE , a mid - story Series 10 manikin and an Ultra 3 . ”
It ’s possible that the addition of the new black polish for the Apple Watch Ultra 2 , alongside new package have like eternal rest apnea sleuthing that were announce at yesterday ’s event , could ’ve been mistaken for a new product , as there was n’t much on what the new Ultra smartwatch could proffer ahead of its hypothecate launch .
With the new black colour selection and software feature of speech for the Apple Watch Ultra 2 , Apple likely wo n’t reveal the Apple Watch Ultra 3 until next September .
A cheaper Apple Watch SE
For the past few months , rumours have been swirling around the internet about the supposed third - contemporaries Apple Watch SE and how it could beeven cheaperthis sentence around .
Per the analyst , this could allow Apple to drop the toll of the Apple Watch SE “ to something that could better rival Samsung ’s crummy vigil , the $ 199 Galaxy Watch FE . ”
And , as with the Apple Watch Ultra 3 , Gurman claimed as recently as last Friday that the Apple Watch SE 3 was indeed on track for a September launch , before claimingjust ahead of the eventthat the SE 3 had been delay .
It ’s possible that Apple is be after on releasing the update Apple Watch SE alongside anew iPhone SEsometime in 2025 , but it ’s laborious to say for indisputable at this stage .
New Apple Watch band system
Way back in August 2023 , before the Apple Watch Series 9 was announce , there were rumours doing the rounds online that suggested that the Apple Watch Series 10 – which was announce at this workweek ’s upshot – would sport an whole new band organisation that ’d make erstwhile watch strap disused .
Individuals apparently involved in developing new model of Apple Watchtold Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurmanthat the existing band system takes up too much space , blank that could be well used for bigger batteries or other tech that ’d meliorate the Apple Watch experience .
As such , the party was considering a magnetised band attachment system – though even at that stage , it was n’t a break that it ’d actually appear on the then - dubbed Apple Watch X.
Months later , in December 2023 , Apple leaker and image collector Kosutamialso claimedthat the next generation of Apple Watch would feature a redesign that ’d fork out existing Watch bands incompatible , total further fuel to the flaming .
We now know that was n’t the eccentric – for the Apple Watch Series 10 , anyway . It ’s always possible that Apple is still tinkering aside with a magnetic alternative ahead of the Series 11 launching next year , but we ’ll have to wait and see .
iPads
Apple ’s iPad mini has n’t had much attention since its last update in 2021 , but rumours suggest that the company is hard at piece of work on the next - gen manikin behind closed door at Apple Park .
As well as updates that ’d bring the iPad mini in line with the rest of themodern iPad collecting – support for the Apple Pencil Pro , a landscape - orientated selfie camera and the corresponding – the iPad Mini 7 could sport the same A18 chipset as theiPhone 16 , along with a boosted 128 GB of base storage to match the iPad Air .
Then there ’s also a rumoured update to the entrance - floor iPad , the iPad 11 . Not much is known about the pill , but give that theiPad 10was such a massive overhaul for the cheap iPad , not much will in all probability change . In fact , Mark Gurman claims that the company is working out “ how to make its production costs lower on the entry - level good example ” .
TheiPad Mini 6was launched in September 2021 , and although the iPad 10 was revealed in October 2022 , most other entry - level iPads have launched in September , leading many to believe that they ’d make an show this calendar week .
However , new rumour claimthat Apple could rather establish the fresh iPads alongside new model of Mac at a freestanding event in October .
New leather alternative to the Finewoven iPhone case
With the launching of the iPhone 15 range in 2023 , Apple did aside with a staple fiber of the iPhone accessory aggregation ; the leather typeface . In its place came the new Finewoven cases that Apple described as offering a undestroyable micro - twill finish with a easy suede - like spirit .
That sounds middling nice , but the trouble is that the face deteriorated very quickly – as in , they’dlook awful within a few weeks of leverage .
Many assumed that Apple would kill off the Finewoven face collection with the iPhone 16 collection , and while that is true , the replacement is n’t a new leather case , or else cheaper Silicone and Plastic cases for the latest iPhones .
But hey , at least there are plenty of with child third - party casemakers , right ?
