Apple’s September 2023 Event: By the Numbers

Today’s Wonderlust event was packed with facts, figures, and statistics throughout the presentation and elsewhere. We’ve pulled together the highlights from the event that was at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.

The New iPhones

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The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are 19 grams lighter than their predecessors

The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus can reach a peak HDR brightness of 1600 nits, which can reach 2000 nits in bright sunlight, which is 2x the iPhone 14’s brightness

The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus come in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB storage capacities

The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus have 3 ‘optical-quality’ zoom levels: 0.5x, 1x, and 2x

We hoped for Thunderbolt 4, but we got USB 3 as the new connector on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, but it’s still 20x faster than before at 10Gbps

iPhones now support Wi-Fi 6E

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The A17 Pro SoC that powers the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max is built using a 3-nanometer process with 19 billion transistors

The A17’s Neural Engine can handle 35 trillion operations per second, has 16 cores, and is up to 2x faster than before

The A17 Pro’s GPU is capable of 4x faster ray tracing and is up to 20% faster

The iPhone 15 Pro features an improved 48MP sensor that takes 24MP images by default with 24 mm, 28 mm, and 35 mm focal lengths

The iPhone 15 Pro Max features a 5x Telephoto lens thanks to the lens’ tetraprism design

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can shoot ProRes video in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second

The image stabilization of the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s camera is capable of 10,000 microadjustments per second

The iPhone 15 Pro is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities.

The New Apple Watches

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The Apple Watch Series 9 can go from 1 nit to 2000 nits of brightness

The S9 chip that powers the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Ultra 2 has a 2x faster Neural Engine with 4 cores and a 30% faster GPU

The Neural Engine allows for dictation that’s up to 25 percent more accurate

The Apple Watch Series 9 is 100% carbon neutral

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The Apple Watch Ultra has a 3000 nits brightness, which is 50% greater than the original Ultra

The Series 9 gets 18 hours of normal battery life and 36 in low-power mode

The Ultra 2 gets 36 hours of normal battery life and 72 hours in low-power mode

Services

New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ storage options were introduced by Apple