Apple Event Set for September 9, New iPhone Expected
Cancel your vacations, tell your boss you can’t come in that day, reschedule your wedding, whatever it takes, because Apple has announced that a special event is scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, in the year 2025. They are calling the event “Awe Dropping”, and while it’s a theoretical possibility that we could shift into an alternate dimension where Apple will unveil a pet cloned dinosaur or gravitic space travel to Alpha Centauri powered by Siri (oh no), what’s far more likely is that we will remain in the realm of our known reality and the September 9 event will be focused on launching a new iPhone, as is typically the case with September events announced by Apple.
The September 9 event is set for 10 AM PT, and you’ll be able to watch the event live online from the Apple website and probably YouTube too. This means you could disrupt your family vacation, gather the entire family around a device screen, and sit around it to watch the event together. Or maybe you have Jury Duty that day, but instead of missing the event you could share the amazing September 9 event with your fellow jurors, or even the entire courtroom! Think of the possibilities, and do not let anything get in the way of watching the most important event in the history of the world.
It’s likely that Apple will follow the tech giant corporate-cheesy post-Covid script of overly produced pre-recordered videos with lots of skits, presentations, and endless hyperbole about the new products being launched, so grab your cans of Cheez Whiz and add the event to your calendar. Will it be the best iPhone ever? The fastest iPhone ever? The (insert marketing gobbledygook lingo here) iPhone ever? The potential adjectives and descriptors for the new iPhone are limitless!
Current rumors and speculation, and historical precedent, suggest the September event will focus on the introduction of the newest iPhone lineup, assumed to be called iPhone 17 (though there’s a rumor whisper that says Apple will switch to year labels for iPhone too, making this iPhone 26 just like iOS 26 – who knows). This could include iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Air, the latter of which is expected to be a thinner and lighter device. And, as will surely be a huge shock to everyone on planet Earth, the next generation iPhone models will probably be better than the prior generation models with improved processors and cameras. I, for one, cannot contain my excitement.
There are also rumors, coming deep from the seedy underground layers and global secret meeting rooms of the Apple Rumor Mill Illuminati Masters of the Universe, of new Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 launching at the event, with some speculation suggesting those devices might get a modernized redesign, and more features as well. And there might be new AirPods coming as well. Those devices, if updated, would also be expected to be improved from the ones they are replacing.
We will also likely discover the precise release dates of iOS 26, ipadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, and watchOS 26. Typically the newest iPhone ships with the newest iOS version, so that could be as soon as September 12, or the following week.
As for reading the tea leaves of the Apple event logo, some tea leaf rumors suggest the iPhone 17 Pro series might include a thermal camera feature, and if you’ve ever seen the 80’s action flick Predator, you already know the potential there, but like all rumors and speculation, it’s just that – rumors and speculation.
Stay tuned, we will all discover the latest and greatest from Apple soon! And don’t worry, by the time I’m writing about the actual unveilings of the event, some of my obnoxious snark may dissipate, if I don’t get fired before then for writing this.
