Apple Event Live Blog: The iPhone 15 Is Coming

Everyone got super-stoked on iCloud+ with 6-TB and 12-TB plans! I guess everyone really likes iCloud.

Interesting! The iPhone 15 Pro stays at the same price of $999, but the iPhone 15 Pro Max jumps to $1,199 and now you get 256 GB by default. Last year's iPhone 14 Pro Max was $1,099, but this is the same price as the 256-GB model.

All the new iPhones are up for preorder on Friday.

Hmmm. Until spatial photos and videos become truly mainstream and easily shareable, I imagine they'll just take up more storage space on your phone.

Spatial Video for Vision Pro! Lauren, I think you said you liked those immersive video clips on the headset, right?

The Huawei Mate 60 Pro phone, currently a thorn in Apple's side, also has a pretty nice camera. According to the South China Morning Post, “The triple camera system is impressive, headlined by a 50MP main camera with a physical shutter that allows for a variable aperture between f/1.4 and f/4.0; a typical ultra-wide camera; and a really good telephoto lens that can capture macro shots – which Huawei dubs a 'telemacro lens'.”

Yesterday, WIRED editors who shall here go unnamed informed me, via Slack, that they could see me across a restaurant while I could not see them. I dread learning what misdeeds can or will be done with a periscope camera.

We have rounded up all the details about the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 models.

The iPhone 15 Pro Max gets an exclusive camera feature this year: 5X optical zoom with a new telephoto “periscope” camera. There's a nifty stabilization feature that should allow for sharper shots with this camera too. Sadly, the iPhone 15 Pro is stuck with the normal 3X zoom camera.

Google's Pixel 7 Pro has a 5X zoom camera, but Samsung is still one of the only brands with a 10X optical zoom camera.

Given Apple's new partnership with AAA roadside assistance and the fact that Triple-AAA games will now supposedly be available on iPhone, it only makes sense that AAA will offer to deliver new video games to you when you're locked out of your car.

I do have to say, we at WIRED admire Apple's commitment to mobile gaming. I do subscribe to Apple Arcade, but mainly to play the frogger game with my kids while we're waiting for food at a restaurant.

Triple-AAA games previously available only on consoles will supposedly now be available on the iPhone, like Resident Evil and the Assassin's Creed franchise. I don't know—do I really want to play these games in the airport? Or in the safety and comfort of my own living room, where no one can see me cry?

OK here are some numbers:

The A17 Pro chipset is built on the 3-nanometer process. The performance cores are 10 percent faster, the efficiency cores are faster, and the neural engine is 2X faster as well. The GPU is also the “biggest redesign in the history of Apple GPUs.”

Apple says the 6-core GPU is 20 percent faster and can create more detailed environments in mobile games while drawing less power, and it now has hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which is 4X faster and much smoother. Because of all this, Apple says you can play console games like Resident Evil: Village on the iPhone 15 Pro, and games like Assassin's Creed Mirage coming later this year will have an iPhone version alongside console and PC versions.

Finally, the USB-C port supports USB 3 for 10 gigabit per second data transfer speeds, but remember, you'll need to buy a cable that can support those speeds separately.

It's a 3-nanometer chip, created, as with most modern chips, with ultraviolet lithography. Performance cores are 10 percent faster. Efficiency cores, Apple claims, are unmatched in the industry.

New neural engine can process 35 trillion operations per second, and the machine learning happens “on device,” a common industry term that means your personal data isn't (always) being sent to the cloud. Everything from your keyboard autocorrecting to “ducking” to the advanced photography on the phone uses this.

And there's a newly redesigned Apple “pro-class” GPU. With ray-tracing for the first time. This is something that…Nvidia does. It's “a method of graphics rendering that simulates the behavior of light.” But now it's in a custom Apple chip in a smartphone. Wild.