iOS 13 launch – as it happened: Apple release date, iPhone 11, new watch and how to download
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple hosted its biggest event of the year, showing off its biggest products and updates.
Alongside a whole host of new products – from the new iPhones to updated Apple Watches – and a variety of different services, Apple finally revealed iOS 13 once and for all.
The company revealed the release date for the new iPhone operating system, as well as showing off any new features that were hidden when it was first revealed over summer and have been stored up for the launch of the new iPhone. iOS 13 has been mired in mystery, with the tech giant cutting off features as it rushed to make it available to the public.
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The seventh-generation iPad features an 8MP camera, support for Apple Pencil, and an A10 Fusion chip.
"All packed into a thin and light design," Joz says.
The new iPad will start at $329, with orders opening today.
Tim Cook is talking about the "profound impact" the Apple Watch has had on people's lives. And he's got a video to prove it.
Its heart rate monitor and fall detection has been credited with saving people's lives.
Here's just one example.
People in the video are talking about the Apple Watch reminding them to get moving and do some exercise.
One woman says: "Sometimes it was like, mind your own business Apple Watch."
Excellent.
"It's truly inspiring to say the difference the Apple Watch is making," Tim Cook says.
Apple is launching three new health studies involving its smart watch:
- Apple Hearing Study, to see how sounds affect people's hearing
- Apple Women's Health Study, which examines menstrual cycles
- Apple Heart and Movement Study, which is in partnership with the American Heart Society.
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