📸 iPhone Photography Awards highlight best images of 2024

📱 Every year, the iPhone Photography Awards (IPPA) selects the best photographs captured with an ‌iPhone‌, and the 2024 award winners were announced yesterday. Many of this year's winning images were taken with Apple's most recent iPhone 15 models.

⌚ IPPA has been running the ‌iPhone‌ Photography Awards since 2007, and 2024 marks the 17th annual competition. The contests are open to ‌iPhone‌ and iPad users worldwide, and images can be edited with iOS apps. It is worth noting that it costs money to send in a photo, but Apple devices are provided as prizes.

🏆 All of the winning images can be viewed on the IPPA website.

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🎵 Apple's 3 months of free subscription for new users is available until September 23

📆 Right now, new users of Apple's music service can get 3 months free, but the terms and conditions of this promotion have revealed an end date for this giveaway – it's September 23, 2024. After that, the company will likely revert back to 1 month free as it was until this summer.

🎧 Hurry up and sign up if you haven't tried it yet, the promotion is running in all regions where Apple Music is present.

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🇮🇳 iPhone 16 Pro models to be assembled in India for the first time

Apple looks to diversify production beyond China, according to Bloomberg. The company has reportedly been considering producing its high-end iPhone Pro models in India for the last couple of years, and has now decided to manufacture the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ Max models in India.

Initially, the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ models will be imported into the country, but Apple will start local assembly for both the domestic market and exports shortly after launch in mid-September, once the new product introduction (NPI) process is complete.

Training is said to be already underway for thousands of workers at Foxconn's factory in southern Tamil Nadu state as it rushes to produce the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ models as close to the global launch as possible.

Last year, Apple had India-made iPhone 15 models ready on launch day, with locally made ‌iPhone 15‌ Plus models becoming available shortly after.

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📸 Photo of the iPhone 16 Pro dummy unit in the new bronze color “Desert Titanium”

But it's better to evaluate the new color after the official release since it's just a moulage.

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📆 The release of Apple's first foldable iPad/MacBook has been delayed until 2027 or 2028

It was previously reported that Apple's first foldable device with a flexible screen would be released in the second quarter of 2026 and would have a 20.3-inch display.

Now, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, this device will be a hybrid of iPad and MacBook with a screen diagonal of 18.8 inches in the unfolded form. Details about the operating system of such a device are not yet available.

Next, Apple may release a foldable iPhone in flip format. Most likely, it will be announced together with the iPhone 17, but the actual market launch will take place not earlier than 2027.

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Upcoming Apple products that are likely to launch in a few weeks 🔜

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📱 targets September 10 debut for new iPhones, AirPods and Watches

This timing would mean that new iPhones reach stores on September 20.

Though the timing hasn’t yet been announced, the company is making preparations for that date, which falls on a Tuesday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private. The unveiling will be followed by the phones going on sale Sept. 20, in line with Apple’s typical approach in recent years.

It's known that on the second Tuesday of September Apple will show off:

・iPhone 16/16 Plus
・iPhone 16 Pro/16 Pro Max
・Apple Watch Series 10
・Apple Watch Ultra 3
・AirPods 4th generation in two variations

The presentation will also announce the release date for iOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia and other systems. More Apple Intelligence features will be announced for new devices in October with the iOS/iPadOS 18.1 update, as previously revealed.

The new Macs with the M4 chip, on the other hand, will be unveiled a month later. According to Mark Gurman, the company is actively testing four new computers. All of them are on Apple M4 chips, but three of them have 10 GPU/CPU cores, and one budget version has only 8 CPU cores, which is usual for budget modifications. All computers have 16 or 32 GB of combined memory each.

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🇪🇺 Apple users in the EU will get more customization options for system settings with iOS 18

Apple announced that this fall users in the European Union under the provisions of the DMA Act, will have new options for choosing a default browser and the ability to uninstall more apps:

🧭 Safari, 💬 Messages, 📷 Photos, 📸 Camera, 🛍App Store and 🔑 Passwords.

This way, only 📞 Phone and ⚙️ Settings may remain in the system.

✔️ Apple will also allow users in the EU to choose new variations to default to other features:
on phone calls, spam-filtering calls, messaging (for example, with the option to choose Telegram as the primary means of communication), Photo and Camera (with the option to choose a different Camera and Media Storage app as the primary one).

🔐 Customization will also affect password managers (integration into the system from other services), keyboards, navigation (the ability to choose any other navigation service as the primary instead of Apple Maps) and translators (both a separately app and at the level of the entire system).

⚙️ To customize all apps at will, Apple will add a "Default Apps" section to Settings. This will list all the settings for each option and the apps available for control. There users will also be able to disable/enable App Store as the default app store. All system applications can be restored from the same App Store if desired. And the first time the device is launched, a new interface for selecting a default browser instead of Safari will be presented.

🔧 Developers will soon get tools to adapt their services and apps to the innovations in the EU. Later, the company will announce details for accessing the default installation of apps and services on the system. Some of the features will be available to users by the end of this year, and another part in early 2025.

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👨🏻‍💻 Apple Store staff attend pre-launch briefings

📰 Ahead of every iPhone launch, retail staff are called in for training on the new products. This year there’s a slight difference. Rather than the typical weekend appointments, Apple will be briefing staff this Thursday and Friday. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes the new dates on 𝕏:

Apple has scheduled an unusual and mandatory meeting for employees at all Apple retail stores for the evening of Sept 12 or morning of Sept 13. This would be ahead of the iPhone 16 release a week later — but pre launch meetings are typically held on Sundays not during the week.

🧠 The main feature to be presented to customers will be Apple Intelligence.

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📣 Apple has announced the date of the event!

🔜 It's September 9.

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📱 Following yesterday's announcement of an upcoming iPhone-centric event

🗓 Apple event is set to take place on September 9 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Apple plans to stream it:

📱 on YouTube
🖥 on its website
📱 through the Apple TV app

🔔 Apple's Events website has an option to add the event to your calendar for a cross-platform reminder.

💬 What time does the event start in your place?

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🎙️ Apple Podcasts is now available for the first time in a web version

🖥 The web version has the same functionality as the Podcasts app: you can subscribe to your favorite podcasts, add them to your library and create playlists.

🆔 Access doesn't require logging in with your Apple ID Apple Account, but you'll still need it for advanced features.

😉 This not only makes sharing content easier, but also makes the service available to Windows and Android users for the first time.

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🎧 AirPods Pro 3 with 'much better' ANC and AirPods 4 (with no ANC)

A new 𝕏 "prediction" seems to suggest two different additions to the AirPods that Apple might unveil in the near future.

First Kosutami Ito claims that "new AirPods Pro" are coming "soon" with "much better" digital Active Noise Cancellation compared to the current edition of Apple's best wireless earbuds.

Second but just as important (if not more so) for the company's cash-strapped fans, the "AirPods 4th generation" are also expected to break cover "soon" with no active noise cancellation and no word on features or capabilities at all right now.

Name Kosutami Ito might not ring as many bells or sound as reputable as Mark Gurman or Ming-Chi Kuo, but as 𝕏 leakers go, this is neither the most trustworthy account out there, nor the shadiest.

In short, there's a good chance Apple will indeed unveil two new pairs of earbuds soon even if it's probably not smart to take that prediction for granted.

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