Apple’s September 2024 Glowtime Event: By the Numbers

Today’s Glowtime online Apple event was packed with facts, figures, and statistics throughout the presentation and elsewhere. We’ve pulled together the highlights.

iPhones

iPhone 16 and 16 Plus

The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are 6.1” and 6.7”, respectively

The new 12MP ultra wide lens captures 2.6x more light

The main camera is 48MP and can take cropped 12MP 2x telephoto images

50% stronger ceramic shield on screen

Brightness ranges from 1 to 2,000 nits

The A18 uses 35% less energy than the A16 Bionic

The A18 chip is 40% faster than the A16 Bionic

The A18 has a 5-core GPU and a 6-core CPU

The A18 has 17% more system memory bandwidth and a 16-core Neural Engine for 2x faster machine learning tasks

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max

6.3” and 6.9” screens, respectively

2x faster ray tracing

Can shoot 4K video at 120 fps

48MP ultra wide camera

The A18 Pro has a 6-core CPU that is 15% faster than the A17 Pro and uses 20% less power

The A18 Pro also has a 6-core GPU that is 20% faster and a 16-core Neural Engine that does 35 trillion operations per second

Apple Watch Series 10

The Series 10 comes in 42 and 46mm variants

30% more screen area compared to previous watches

40% brighter display at 2,000 nits

the S10 chip has a 64-bit dual core processor and a 4-core Neural Engine

Battery life is up to 36 hours in low power mode

30% thinner than prior models

30% smaller speakers

Charges to 80% in 30 minutes

Titanium models weigh 20% less than stainless steel models

AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2

AirPods 4

30 hours of battery life with new case but only 20 if you use Active Noise Cancelation with the compatible model

Up to 5 hours of listening time for the standard AirPods 4 and 4 hours with Active Noise cancellation turned on

4.5 hours of talk time on both models which increases to 20 hours when the case is accounted for

Both models use Bluetooth 5.3

AirPods Pro 2

Up to 6 hours of listening time down to 5.5 hours with head tracking and Spatial audio enabled and adding the case bumps listening time to 30 hours

Up to 4.5 hours of talk time and adding the case bumps the talk time to 24 hours

Up to 4 hours of lossless audio when used with the Vision Pro

10 minutes charging in the case provides one hour of listening or talk time