Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech and this past week,
there was quite a bit of information about upcoming iPads, iPhones,
as well as maybe a new iPhone se and when to expect that as well as a
few other announcements.
And so this is your news update for the week of June 27th, 2021.
And the first thing has to do with a new support document that apple released
the other day. Last Friday,
they released a new support document talking about magnetic interference with
medical devices.
Now we know that the iPhone 12 Pro Max with its magnets in the back.
If you were to bring it closer to say a pacemaker, for example,
could be problematic. However, people that generally have these devices in them,
I've talked to some that say they just normally use it on the opposite side,
that they have the pacemaker. And it's not a big problem. However,
if you go down and you'll see, there's a bunch of different products listed now,
so AirPods and charging cases, apple watch and accessories, home pod,
iPad, and accessories, iPhone, and MagSafe accessories, max and beats.
And so I'll link this in the description below,
but this is basically anything that has magnets in it from speakers that are in
the iPhone to the magnetic ring that allows for magsafe wireless charging.
So that's just something that they've updated with all of those info,
all of those different devices and all of the extra information.
Now also apple released some firmware for air tags.
And if you have air tags, there's new firmware available.
Although you kind of just have to wait for it to update. Now,
apple did release some firmware updates before it's 1.0.276,
but this time around there's a new build number.
None of mine have updated that I'm aware of. So if you go into your,
find my app and within the find, my app actually tap the name at the top.
And then you can see the new firmware update and it looks like mine did update,
but when they did and how they did, I'm not really sure.
I tried to sort of do the same way you would update air pods for example,
and it didn't work.
So this is something that is a little bit challenging to get to update.
You just wait for it to happen, but they did update them.
So it has the same exact version number, but a different build number.
So it's the same thing.
You can't really see the build what it's for specifically apple hasn't set.
So maybe it's for added security over the last one.
We're not sure at this specific point anyway, now,
along with that apple also released today,
macOS Monterey beta 2.
This was the last developer beta that wasn't updated the beta two last week.
And now we have beta two of macOS Monterey. I'm still looking into it.
It just installed on my Mac book pro. So there's a bunch of significant changes.
I'll be sure to do a video about that. Also last week,
apple opened a new apple store in Los Angeles, and you can see here,
apple tower theater now open in downtown Los Angeles and they take,
they took an old theater, made it into a store,
and it's probably one of the most beautiful stores I've seen,
although I haven't seen it in person,
but it's very nice and they've kept much of the style that it used to have.
So it's nice to see them turn this into something nice of just no one using the
theater altogether. So that's something that they've done this past week,
as well as launching a new creative studio to provide opportunities to young
creatives. So you can see it says launching in Los Angeles, Beijing,
and there's other places as well. So yeah, it's launching in Bangkok, London,
Chicago in Washington, DC, and they'll work with nonprofit community,
the organizations to connect with youth and then teach them different skills.
So you can read all about this again, I'll link this in the description below,
but it's nice to see them reaching out in helping people learn even more than
what might be available through their schools. For example, now,
when it comes to the next version of the iPhone, whether that be a twenty,
twenty one iPhone iPhone 12 S or 13, whatever apple decides to call it.
And this is just a prototype that was meant to look like a 12 pro max,
but it never turned out to be like this. But according to Digitimes,
iPhone 13 production is starting soon as apple is getting all of its parts from
the different distributors to them manufacturing plant.
And so it looks like it's ramping up production.
And also to go along with that Foxconn who assembles the iPhones is apparently
offering record bonuses to recruit workers, to assemble the next iPhone.
So it looks like they're working on that. And this is about the right timeframe.
Usually a few months out where they get ready to start manufacturing millions of
phones for maybe a September release. Like we normally see now,
according to Ming Chi Quo,
this year's iPhone pro models are said to have a new ultra-wide camera that has
auto-focus. Now traditionally we'll have,
we'll have ultra wide in our 12 pro max, for example,
but it doesn't have auto focus. It's a fixed focus.
And in the pro models this year, apparently it's going to gain autofocus.
So we've heard about sensor shift stabilization,
which we have on the 12 Pro Max coming to other phones,
but now ultra wide is said to have auto-focus in it as well.
So we could see that along with that feature,
coming to all iPhone models in the following year of 2022 with an iPhone 14,
for example, now we've heard this before, but again, and according to quo,
he's saying that 2022 iPhones may feature an, the display fingerprint sensor.
So that won't be something we see this year, according to him, instead,
it would be in the following year.
I would love to see it this year or sooner rather than later,
with the option to use that instead of face ID.
But it seems like you may have to wait another year for that if you were looking
forward to it. So there's not any specific information as to why,
or what's going to be different, but maybe the redesign,
some things with the display, get rid of the notch,
maybe at some point and give you an under display fingerprint sensor when they
can. Now, again, quo is saying that the iPhone 12,
many will end production with this year's iPhone.
So we would have a mini this year and then next year they would no longer
manufacture it. And instead switch to two different models, a 6.1 inch,
6.7 inch phone with maybe a regular and pro variant instead of a mini as
well. So I know a lot of people will be a little upset about that,
but apparently they're just not selling it well enough to justify it.
So it like, it may be something they discontinue we'll have to wait and see,
you never know apple can change anything at the last minute,
but that seems to be what people are saying at this point,
based off the manufacturing. Now, when it comes to the next generation,
iPhone se a lot of people are looking forward to this. And again,
according to Kuo Ming Chi he's saying that for 2022 apple is said to be working
on this in the first half, we should see it early next year, for example,
and it would have 5g.
And it said to be the least expensive 5g iPhone ever.
Now that means basically under $700 since that's the current cheapest,
iPhone 12 with 5g.
So you would have an iPhone se with that. Now, as far as any other changes,
whether that means removing the home button,
or maybe putting it under the display or putting it on the side button,
he hasn't said anything about that, but maybe we'll see some of those features.
I would love to see it go full screen, but with the side button being touch ID,
like the iPad air, for example. But again,
there's no specific information about that. Now,
as far as iOS 14.7, a lot of people have been asking me,
when are we going to see the next beta or a final release? Well, to be honest,
I thought we'd have a beta already. I thought we'd have it as soon as last week,
but it seems like we could have it as soon as later today, maybe tomorrow,
or we could have maybe a final next week,
apple has really changed up how they're releasing betas.
I would expect a beta four just based off the build number,
but it's been long enough.
We could see a release candidate or even a public release at this point.
So apple is not specified to anyone that I'm aware of when iOS 14.7
will be out. And then of course we move on to iOS 14.8, for example,
until late September, when we expect to see iOS 15 released to the public.
Again, another question a lot of people are asking me is when to expect iOS 15 public
beta and apple has said July. They haven't said anything more than that.
And that could mean as soon as Thursday. So this Thursday, July 1st,
if beta two is stable enough, we could see that release as a public beta.
That's typically what they do, or.
We could wait until the following week where.
There's maybe beta three and they make that public beta one.
We just don't know yet. It's possible.
We could have it as soon as this week based off last week's late release,
but again, they haven't said specifically,
so we'll have to wait and see what they do.
Hopefully they release it this week as beta two,
and then we'll move on concurrently with the regular developer betas and public
betas after that. But again,
we won't have a public release until late September, generally around the,
the launch of the iPhones.
So that's typically what apple does every single year. Now,
according to mark Gurman at Bloomberg,
apparently apple is considering a larger iPad.
Now this is a 12.9 inch iPad pro. And if they're considering a larger one,
I actually would welcome that a 16 inch iPad pro or even a larger one where you
could put it on a stand that pivots making it much like an iMac,
but that runs iPad OSTP. I would love to see what they have in mind for this,
but I wouldn't really mind a larger iPad as long as I have a nice case for it.
And maybe final cut pro finally,
or logic pro or any of those pro apps that are really missing.
I know there's Luma fusion,
but if they made it more like final cut pro or some touch variant of that,
I would definitely welcome that. And we could see that maybe in 2022,
but it's just an idea at this point, according to internal testing,
and also they're testing new iPods with glass backs that would support wireless
charging. Now whether or not they ever do this is hard to say,
but apparently they're going to redesign the iPad again with a new design,
which we would expect every few years.
So maybe they could go to a design more like the iPhone,
where it's a metal ring on the outside with glass front and back to support it.
It would be stronger with stainless steel, but it would be very heavy,
I think with glass on the back. So not only is it a concern for breaking it,
but it's also a concern because of its weight.
So the wireless charging would be nice,
but it would be a little bit unbelievable to see something that heavy.
So I'm curious as to what it would be like,
but I would definitely welcome a larger one.
That's similar to a 16 inch Mac book, for example.
So let me know what you think about that in the comments below. Now,
when it comes to apple watch,
apparently apple has received approval in China for ECG to be
activated. It's already active in watchOS beta two.
And so that will be active very soon on public releases.
Also the upcoming series seven apple watch is said to be getting its first major
redesign. I've talked about that before,
where they would take the edges of these and square them off a little bit more
to match the current I-phones.
But it's also said to have maybe a processor that's a lot smaller,
a new S7 system on a chip that would be smaller,
maybe double-sided and more power efficient.
So according to Kuo Ming Chi saying that the chip could be double-sided to
shrink its size,
but also apple could be focusing on battery life with the series seven,
because some of the sensors we've been looking forward to such as blood glucose
monitoring may be a year or two away. So apparently according to Bloomberg,
they're still working on blood glucose monitoring and other features,
but it's something that's a little bit difficult to implement and it would be
revolutionary.
So to get the sensor right for that makes make sense that it would take some
time. No one's been able to do it successfully.
And if apple can do that with a watch, it would be huge for a lot of people.
So unfortunately it doesn't seem like it's coming this year,
but possibly in the following year, it seems like,
but either way we'll have to wait and see, but they are going to redesign it.
I know a lot of people want around apple watch and that doesn't seem like
something they're going to do.
So we may have a more squared off apple watch though,
in the future very shortly when it comes to AirPods,
apparently apple is ramping up production of new models.
There's shipments of components going to manufacturers right now,
according to Digitimes. And if that's true,
we could see one ready later this year,
maybe around the fall when they released the new iPhone.
So we could see either AirPods three or AirPods pro two,
I tend to think it'd be more of an AirPods two or AirPods three situation rather
than an air pods pro too. But again, we'll have to wait and see,
we've seen already some designs of what it could look like,
but right now we'll just have to wait and see,
as it looks like there's a lot of movement as far as manufacturing goes,
but specifics are kind of hard to come by.
Apple has become more and more secretive as they have been in the past.
And it seems to be harder for manufacturers to get that information out.
So that's it for all the news this past week,
I'm looking forward to a larger iPad.
If that's really a thing they're working on and of course updated iPhones and
that upcoming iPhone 15 public beta that I know so many people are waiting for.
So I can't wait to see that and see what people think of iOS 15.
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