Apple CEO Tim Cook at iPhone X September 2017 Event Keynote (Transcript)

Steve meant so much to me and so much to all of us. There is not a day that goes by that we don’t think about him. Memories have especially come rushing back as we prepared for today and this event.

It’s taken some time but we can now reflect on him with joy, instead of sadness. Steve’s spirit and timeless philosophy on life will always be the DNA of Apple. His greatest gift, his greatest expression of his appreciation for humanity, would not be a singular product. But rather it would be Apple itself. We dedicate this theater to Steve because we loved him, and because he loved days like this where he could share our latest new products and new ideas with the world. And we do so not only to pay tribute to Steve but to inspire the next generation of creators and innovators.

Steve was a genius and one of the many ways that he showed that was in his uncanny ability to unlock the talent of everybody that he worked with. He thought deeply about our workplace and its surroundings. And he believed that they should inspire talented people to do their best work.

So over a decade ago, he began to work on a new campus for Apple. His vision for Apple Park was to create an incredible workplace of the future where engineers and designers could all be together, collaborating on the next generations of Apple product to change the world.

Steve’s vision and passion live on here at Apple Park and everywhere in Apple. Today and always, we honor him.

Thank you.

We’re here today to talk about some incredible products. But before we get to that, I’d like to take a moment to talk about what’s happening in Florida and Texas, Southeastern United States and across the Caribbean. Our hearts go out to all of the people whose lives have been disrupted by hurricanes Irma and hurricane Hardy. You’re in our thoughts. We send you our strength. You are in our prayers.

Apple is working closely with relief and recovery efforts through Hand in Hand and the American Red Cross and in addition to Apple’s direct contributions, we’re making it really simple for the entire Apple community to donate via iTunes and the App Store. The Hand-in-Hand benefit for hurricane relief airs tonight on all of the major broadcast networks and I encourage you to watch it. And however you choose to give, I hope that you open your heart to this important effort. Thank you.

Now let me tell you a little bit about our new home. We’ll start moving in Apple Park later this year but of course such a large move is really more of a process. And the first big step is the opening today of the Steve Jobs Theater. It’s the most state-of-the-art, purpose-built theater ever built for events just like this one.

Apple Park has been built to reflect Apple’s values for both technology and the environment. It connects — connects extraordinarily advanced buildings with the rolling parkland to form an open and inspiring environment for our teams to create and collaborate. The park itself was converted from a sea of asphalt into a 175-acre green space with over 9000 trees.

Apple Park is designed to be seamless with nature. It’s open, transparent. It brings the outside in and connects everyone to the beautiful California landscape. It’s powered by a 100% renewable energy. And in fact, we have one of the world’s largest on-site solar installations right here. And just like everything we make, Apple Park has been designed with extraordinary attention to detail, incredible precision, and really beautiful materials.

We’ve got a great Visitor Center which will be opened later this year where we will welcome everyone. And inside the Visitor Center, you’ll find an incredible augmented reality experience where you can learn more about Apple Park, its design and its innovations.

You’ll also find a fantastic new Apple retail store. As you know, Apple Retail has always been about more than selling. It’s about learning, inspiring and connecting with people.

Now our stores are also the best place to go discover, explore and experience our new products. So before we get to some incredible products, we’d like to give you an update on retail. And to do that, I’d like to invite Angela up. Angela?

Angela Ahrendts – SVP of Retail, Apple

Good morning. Thank you. It’s great to be here. And I love the fact that the same team that designs Apple Park also designs our largest retail stores around the world. But it’s funny, because we actually don’t call them stores anymore; we call them Town Squares, because they’re gathering places for 500 million people who visit us every year, places where everyone is welcomed and we’re all of Apple comes together.

But what really brings it all to life, as Tim said, are our incredible teams. We’ve always said that our people are our soul and they’re Apple’s greatest differentiator because they bring personal connection to communities all over the world. They humanize technology.

But along with our amazing teams, our commitment to design also sets us apart, to make things simple, beautiful. And that’s why we think of Apple Retail as Apple’s largest products and like all of our products we’ve designed new features to take the customer experience even further.

In our largest cities where we can, we create a plaza, a space open to everyone, come in and relax, meet up with friends or just listen to a local artist on the weekends. Inside we’ve designed a forum, a place for customers to come and create, collaborate or just connect again with one another.

For local entrepreneurs and app developers, we have a quieter space in the larger stores called a boardroom where they can learn more from our teams or again share with each other.

And the Genius Grove, a redesigned, more relaxed cervix experience now in the heart of our larger stores.

And lastly the Avenues – kind of like shop windows around the Town Square. They’re carefully curated and they change seasonally to always feature our newest products and services. And this summer, to turn on these new features, we’ve launched Today at Apple, our in-store experience designed to inspire customers to go even further with their passions.

We started with things that are core to Apple’s DNA — things people most use their devices for and they trust us to teach them, like photography, music, gaming and app development. We’ve created new programs like Photo Walks where customers can perfect their photography skills with features like portrait mode and memories and we do all of this in a really fun social way by taking them out to the neighborhood to explore with each other.

Or Swift Playgrounds where the next generation app developers can begin to learn the basics of coding. And one of my personal favorites: Teachers Tuesdays where our teams help local educators stay updated on the newest technologies and apps.

In some of our larger stores, sessions are led by local artists like this Music Lab called The Art of Beat Making with the RZA and the ROLI team in Brooklyn. These sessions in all stores are led by our creative team and a new position we call a Creative Pro. So the Creative Pro is now the liberal arts as the genius has always been to technology and I would love to show a quick video to show you how Today at Apple is coming to life.

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We’ve just started. We’ve just started but the feedback has been fantastic. Customers are telling us they love the role that Apple Retail is playing in their community.

So what’s next?

Well, we’re going to continue to open Apple Town Squares in the top cities around the world. We’re going to invest in online and we’re also going to continue to reinvest in our 400 classic locations, including Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City where we’re opening up the Plaza to allow natural sunlight to come in, into a greatly expanded space below. And you can see the glass cube will return when reopened late next year.

And in Paris, we’re restoring an entire historic building on the iconic Champs Elysées. We’re turning a five-story atrium into our largest forum. Early next year we’re transforming a theater beneath Piazza Liberty into a modern-day Town Square for Milan. Just imagine movie night there next summer.

And we’ve recently announced an ambitious project to restore Carnegie Library in the heart of our nation’s capital. We can’t think of a better place for Today at Apple programs than a building originally created for the city to access knowledge and unlock their potential.

And I’m thrilled to personally announce the opening of our newest flagship store in the heart of the Midwest, Apple Michigan Avenue in Chicago on October 20. Our team has designed a spectacular pavilion that seamlessly connects the Plaza to the Promenade as a part of the city’s plan to transform the Chicago river front.

So that’s a brief highlight, just a couple of things we’ve been working on, and as Tim said, Apple’s Retail purpose has always been to enrich lives. So a huge thank you to the 65,000 Apple Retail employees around the world whose passion, energy and commitment in serving all of us every day and ensuring all of Apple comes together, it’s brilliant. Thank you.

Tim Cook – CEO, Apple Inc.

Thank you. Thanks Angela. I am really excited — I’m really excited about all the incredible things going on in Retail, that I am especially proud of our unbelievable retail team. It’s the best place to go experience our new products. And so let’s get going on telling you about what we’re going to launch today beginning with Apple Watch.

Apple Watch was designed to help people stay active, motivated, and connected so that they could live a better day. And I’m happy to tell you that more people are doing that than ever before. Since the launch of the Series 2, the Apple Watch has experienced phenomenal growth. In fact, last quarter Apple Watch grew over 50% compared to the previous year. This is incredible!

Now, last year we told you that the Apple Watch had already become the number two watch in the world. Today I’m thrilled to tell you the Apple Watch is now the number one watch in the world. But what’s most rewarding to us is how much our users love it. We have an industry-leading customer satisfaction rate of 97%. This is blow-away.

People write to us all the time and tell us how the Apple Watch is helping them lead a healthier life. These stories are unbelievable and we prepared a video so that you could hear directly from them what they’re telling us. I’d love to play it for you.

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Those stories are so moving, and there is really no words to describe what it feels like to receive this. I’d like to thank everybody in the video for sharing their personal experience with all of us.

We have some great news about the future of Apple Watch, and to share it with you, I’d like to invite Jeff up. Jeff?

Jeff Williams – COO, Apple

Thanks, Tim. Those stories are really great and it’s really inspiring to us that so many people are getting healthier without Apple Watch. And with watchOS 4, they’re going to be able to do even more. We’re adding smart activity coaching which is going to help more people close more rings more often, a completely redesigned workout app with high intensity interval training, new features for swimmers like auto-sets and GymKit, an industry first. It’s really simple; you just tap your watch on machine, get going and all your metrics are in sync.

One of the things that enables these fitness features is the Apple Heart Rate Sensor and it’s been at the core of Apple Watch since the very beginning. And today it’s the most used heart rate monitor in the world, and we want to use it to help even more people.

So we’re doing three things. First, we’re making enhancements to the Heart Rate app to give you more information. Now you’ll see your heart rate right on the watch face, so you can keep an eye on it with just the raise of the wrist. And when you launch the Heart Rate app, you’ll see new measurements, like resting heart rate. Apple Watch calculates this daily by correlating background heart rate readings with accelerometer data. And recovery heart rate which tells you how quickly your heart rate drops after a workout. A lower resting heart rate and a quicker recovery rate can be signs of improved fitness. And now you can keep a better picture of your heart rate, you have a better picture throughout the day.

The second thing we’re doing is inspired by many of the letters we received from customers who noticed an unusually high heart rate when they wouldn’t expect one. So Apple Watch has been helpful for them but we realize most people won’t notice. So we’re adding a feature. And now Apple Watch will notify you when it detects an elevated heart rate and you don’t appear to be active.

And the third thing we’re doing is focused on heart rhythm. A regular heart rhythm has a familiar pattern, but when your heart beats irregularly, it’s called an arrhythmia. It doesn’t mean it’s beating too fast or too slow; it just means it’s beating out of its normal rhythm. And that can cause problems. The most common form of serious arrhythmia is called atrial fibrillation or A-fib, and it affects tens of millions of people and is a leading cause of stroke. But the challenge is many people with A-fib don’t feel symptoms, so it often goes undiagnosed. We’ve been looking at this for a couple of years and we think Apple Watch can help.

In our initial studies, Apple Watch has been effective at surfacing irregular rhythms. So we’re expanding that work and today we’re announcing the Apple Heart Study. It will use data from Apple Watch and it will analyze arrhythmias, including A-fib and notify users. This study is being conducted in partnership with Stanford Medicine and we’re working closely with the FDA. And they’ve been great to work with. So later this year, the first phase of the Apple Heart Study will be available in the U.S. on the App Store.

Those are the updates focused on fitness and health and they join the other great features of watchOS 4. We have a completely redesigned music experience, an intelligent Siri face, fun new characters from Toy Story and more.

So that’s watchOS 4. It will be available to all Apple Watch customers on September 19.

And now I’d like to introduce the next generation of Apple Watch.

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Introducing Apple Watch Series 3 and it has cellular built in. Now you have the freedom to go anywhere with just your Apple Watch. This has been our vision from the very beginning and we believe built-in cellular make Series 3 the ultimate expression of Apple Watch. Now you can go for a run with just your watch and still be connected. You can leave your phone when you go to the beach or just run a quick errand. And it’s really nice to know you can be reached if needed while staying in the moment.

You can receive an important call with just your watch and the number is the same number as your iPhone. You don’t have to manage a separate number. The apps you rely on, like Messages, just work and Siri is at your back, and can call anytime anywhere. You can use Maps and get directions and the location for Find My Friend automatically switches to your watch when you’re away from your phone. And third-party apps like WeChat work over cellular as well.

And coming next month, cellular is going to change the way we listen to music, because with Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple Music, you can stream 40 million songs on your wrist. You’ll have access to all your favorite music. You can listen to Beats 1 live or any Apple radio music station. You can even ask Siri to find you the perfect track.

Now the best advice for staying active has all the music you need to stay motivated. To enable these features on Apple Watch, we have packed Series 3 with the most advanced technologies ever in a watch. Inside is a new dual-core processor delivering up to 70% more performance. Its really really fast.

Siri is quicker than ever, and thanks to the new processor, for the first time on Apple Watch Siri can talk.

[Siri: It’s 64 degrees right now in South Lake Tahoe]

It’s really convenient to not have to look at the screen when you ask it a question.

For Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, we developed a custom wireless chip, we call W2. There’s nothing else like it. It delivers up to 85% faster Wi-Fi while being 50% more power — power efficient for both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. And we’ve added a barometric altimeter. So now you get flights of stairs climbed and elevation gains after a workout. We’re also releasing an app for developers. This can be great for skiing and snowboarding acts. Of course, got a snowboarder out there.

Of course, the biggest challenge of all was adding cellular. You see, our little watch is already packed, and you have to add antennas, radios, power amplifiers, a SIM card. And if you don’t do it right, it gets so big it looks like a house arrest bracelet and you’re not going to want to wear it.

So our engineers have been hard at work. And they’ve come up with some really creative solutions. For example, rather than add an antenna, the display itself is the multi-frequency antenna for both LTE and UMTS. And of course, you have to have a SIM card but even a nano SIM would be way too big. So instead we integrated an electronic SIM and it’s a fraction of the size.

So here’s where we ended up. Even with all these new features: faster dual core processor, W2, altimeter, all the stuff you’ve got to put in for cellular, the case for Series 3 is the same size as Series 2. The only difference is we extended the back crystal a mere 0.25 millimeters, that’s as thin as two sheets of paper. It’s really magical to make a standalone call on a device this small. And I’d like to do that for you right now.

I’m going to switch watches so you guys can see what’s going on. This watch is connected over the AT&T cellular network. This is our new Explorer face and I’m going to tap on the phone app. And I’m going to call Deirdre who is a colleague on the watch team.

Deirdre: Hi Jeff.

Jeff Williams: Hi, Deirdre. Hey, I’m calling you from the new Steve Jobs Theater. How are you doing?

Deirdre: I’m a little sad to be missing the keynote but I’m working very hard up here.

Jeff Williams: Yes, sure you are. Why don’t we pull in some video and show everybody where you are?

Deirdre: This has been a very testifying. But you know me I am a team player.

Jeff Williams: Yes, that’s you, Deirdre. Give give give. Well it looks beautiful out there.

Deirdre: It is amazing. But I am just trying to not to fall off in front of a million people.

Jeff Williams: Well, so far so good, Deirdre. Hey, I should probably cut it off or something goes awry but be safe out there and thanks for doing this.

Deirdre: My pleasure! I may stay in here few more days.

Jeff Williams: Yeah, OK, OK, that sounds great, Deirdre.

I’m going to go rogue for a minute. You guys get it but sometimes people take technology for granted. And just for perspective, I mike – and in fact I’m actually double mike in just the right location so you can hear me. Deirdre is out in the middle of a windy lake and the only microphone Deirdre is the little tiny one on the Apple Watch is a foot or two away from her mouth, she’s paddling and the signals being sent over cellular coming in and that’s just darn close to magic. Who would have thought?

Series 3 comes in a wide variety of cases and bands. We have a beautiful new gold aluminum finish along with silver and space gray. We’re excited to introduce a new band we call the Sport Loop that’s designed for an active lifestyle and it’s light, stretchy and breathable. For Apple Watch Nike+, we have exclusive new colors and they’re releasing a new version of their Nike+ Run Club app with great new features like in-run audio coaching. And we have some wonderful colors across all of our bands that you just have to see in person.

We have a great partnership with Hermès and the tradition continues this year with some new watch face styles, some beautiful new bands like the one on the left that’s inspired by the classic Hermès driving glove. And last year we introduced a white ceramic watch. This year we’re adding a ceramic watch in a gorgeous grey finish. All of these watches were built with a great deal of care as well as a concern for the environment and they’re free of these harmful materials.

So that’s Apple Watch Series 3, cellular, GPS, swim-proof, 70% faster dual-core processor, barometric altimeter, all the features of watchOS 4 and it still has all-day battery life up to 18 hours across a mix of LTE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

We have two versions of Series 3. There’s one with cellular at $399 and a version without cellular that has all the other great features at just $329. And we’re going to keep Series 1 in the line at a new starting price of $249.

Series 3 cellular will be available in these nine countries with these 14 carriers at launch and six more coming later in the year. And we’ve worked with each of these carriers and they each have a special introductory offer for Series 3. So it’s going to be great. And we are offering the Series 3 without cellular in these 26 countries at launch. Orders will begin September 15 and availability will be September 22.

That’s the update on Apple Watch. And now back to Tim.

Tim Cook – CEO, Apple Inc.

Apple Watch is the ultimate device for a healthy life and the Series 3 takes that to a whole new level.

Now, Jeff showed you some very cool things you can do with the cellular function in Series 3. And one of those is to stream 40 million songs right on your wrist. We’ve made a great ad showing just that. I’d love to play it for you.

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This is a big moment for Apple Watch, and we think you are going to love it.

Next up, I’d like to turn your attention to Apple TV.

Apple TV has changed the way we experience television, simplifying the way that we discover and enjoy movies, TV shows, sports, news, games, apps and so much more. In fact, we’ve just been awarded our second Emmy for Apple TV. Thank you. This Emmy was in recognition for how Siri makes it so easy to search, discover and interact with your TV content. We’re really – we’re really proud of the efforts we’ve made to improve the TV experience.

Now throughout the history of TV, there’s been a few key inflection points that have changed the way we experience television. It, of course, all began with black and white, and it was first transformed with the introduction of color. It took a huge step forward with the advent of HD. Each stage brought with it a more true to life experience, a more immersive experience.

Now we’re at the next major inflection point. One that has the most stunning visuals ever that are ideal for the large TV screens that are coming into our living rooms. This will bring cinematic quality to virtually everything that you watch. That’s why I am so excited to introduce Apple TV 4K.

At the heart of Apple TV 4K are two key technologies that are driving this next evolution of the TV experience. And to tell you all about them, I’d like to invite Eddy to the stage. Eddy?

Eddy Cue – SVP of Internet Software and Services, Apple

Thank you, Tim. It is really great to be here tonight. Apple TV 4K is incredible and it starts with two big advancements in picture quality.

First, it’s 4K. Let me show you. This is an image in 4K. It’s got incredible detail. That’s possible because 4K has four times the number of pixels as HD. But resolution isn’t everything. There’s an even bigger advancement that’s more important, and it’s called High Dynamic Range or HDR. While 4K is about the number of pixels, HDR is about better pixels. Let me show you.

Here is that same 4K image, and here it is an HDR. Look at the color, the details. Apple TV can do this, because it supports the industry standard HDR10 as well as Dolby Vision, the best HDR experience.

Now Apple TV 4K with HDR delivers the highest picture quality ever, and to show you we’ve installed a state-of-the-art Dolby 4K HDR cinema projector in the theater. So let’s dim the lights and let me show you the new Apple TV.

Now we remastered our screen savers, our customers love this to take full advantage of 4K HDR. Here we are in Dubai and even at night, you can see incredible details in the buildings and the cars on the road.

And here’s a city shot that really shows off the Christmas and sharpness that’s possible in the new Apple TV. Now we’ve redone the whole Apple TV UI in 4K. The texts are sharper, the images are brighter and more vibrant.

But let’s take a look at a 4K HDR clip. This is from the new Spider-Man movie coming to iTunes later this month. We’ve got the powerful A10X Fusion Chip. This is the same chip that’s in our iPad Pro. And the new Apple TV isn’t just slightly faster; it’s remarkably faster. CPU performance is more than twice as fast as the current Apple TV, and graphics are more than four times faster. And of course, it runs the latest version of tvOS, the best operating system for the living room.

Now to experience 4K with HDR, you also need great content. And we’ve been working with the large Hollywood studios to bring all of their 4K and HDR movie titles to iTunes. So now you’ll have the biggest releases in the best picture quality, all on iTunes, all available for the same price as HD. And if you bought one of those movies in HD from iTunes, we’re going to automatically upgrade them to 4K HDR at no additional charge.

Now in addition to iTunes, we’ve been working with leading streaming providers like Netflix to bring their 4K HDR titles to Apple TV and later this year Amazon Prime video with all of their 4K HDR titles and originals as well.

Now last year we introduced the Apple TV app, an easy way to watch your favorite movies and TV shows in a single place. It’s been available in the U.S. and today I’m happy to announce that we’re bringing it to 7 additional countries: Canada and Australia later this month and the rest by the end of the year.

Now for each country, it’s really important that we have the content that those customers know and love. And that’s why we’re adding all of these local services to Apple TV. And later this year, Apple TV will do even more, because we’re bringing live sports, so you’ll never miss a game. If you’re a huge sports fan, like I am, you’re really going to love this feature. If your favorite team is playing on ESPN, it will automatically appear right first in the Up Next List. You’ll even get notifications when a game’s about to start, or if there’s a close game so you can start watching instantly. And if you scroll up you’ll see even more games and in addition we’re bringing live news to the TV app.

Now let’s take a look at those games. As you can see, we show you the score and the time remaining to help you decide which game to watch. And if you’re one of these people who doesn’t like to know the score you can turn the feature off.

Now we also have a dedicated sports tab where you can see every live and upcoming game, and as the seasons change so will the sports tab always showing you what’s best for you. As sports in the TV app is a real game changer for sports fans and of course, the new TV app is available on your iPhone and iPad as well.

Now if you own an iPad or iPhone, there is no better choice than Apple TV. You can now share your photos on the big screen, including Live Photo effects, 4K video memories. You can play from the over 40 million songs in Apple Music, including the music that your friends are listening to. And because Apple TV is always home, you get anywhere anytime access to all of your HomeKit accessories. And of course, you’ve got access to choose from the thousands of games and apps on the App Store and with the A10X Fusion ship there is so much more that Apple TV can do.

And to see what’s possible, we’d love to show you a new game from Thatgamecompany. They’re known for making artistic and critically acclaimed games. As a matter of fact, their first game called Flower was chosen as the first video game ever to be in the permanent collection in the Smithsonian, which is very very cool.

So with that, I would love to welcome their CEO Jenova Chen.

Jenova Chen – CEO, thatgamecompany

Hey Eddy. At thatgamecompany, we treat games as an art form. Today many of us play games a lot. We believe games is a medium that can bring people together. And that’s exactly what we are going to do with our new game Sky. Together with me is my colleague Mike, and Mike, why don’t we take off?

Sky is a romantic social adventure game while you fly above the clouds to explore the wonders of a mysterious world. The game is designed to be adaptable to the most casual players. The control is simple and intuitive. Everything can be done with one finger on the Siri Remote.

Oh, hey that’s Mike’s friend Jeff and he’s asking us to follow him. Let’s see what he has discovered. Compassion and generosity are key to unveil hidden areas of the world as well as growing your character. So by lighting all the candles, Jeff and Mike was able to summon the spirit. And he’s about to teach Mike the knowledge of how to summon a magical creature.

In Sky, we really take advantage of the powerful and new hardware. With Metal 2 and Apple TV’s A10X Fusion chip, we’re able to run the game smoothly even with these detailed clouds, intelligent creatures, and up to eight players from anywhere around the world. And let’s see if we can drop off, well, these creatures.

We don’t have time to show you everything, so we’re going to skip forward to the Dark Temple ahead. Light and dark are important themes of the game. In Sky, you play as the children of light and your goal is to bring that light to where it is needed the most.

With the light, Mike was able to free all the butterflies and together they can move on to the next part of the adventure. With a live Gabe Castro soundtrack and cinematic experiences, you can expect to be immersed in an ever-expanding world. So join hands with your loved ones and play Sky exclusively on Apple TV, iPad and iPhone this winter. Thank you.

Eddy Cue – SVP of Internet Software and Services, Apple

Thanks, Jenova. We can’t wait for you to get your hands on Sky. We’re so excited about the new Apple TV 4K. It’s got powerful hardware that delivers stunning 4K HDR video, live sports along with live news, TV shows and movies all in the TV app, and the perfect big screen companion for your iPhone or iPad.

New Apple TV 4K starts at $179. It joins the existing one. You can order it starting on September 15 and it ships just a week later. That is the new Apple TV 4K. Thank you and I’d like to turn it back to Tim.

Tim Cook – CEO, Apple Inc.

Thanks Eddy. I can’t wait for you to experience the beauty and the magic of the cinema right in your living room with the Apple TV 4K.

Next up, iPhone. Apple has always believed that technology infused with humanity can improve people’s lives and change the world. No other device in our lifetimes have had the impact on the world that the iPhone has. Nothing else has become so essential or put so much power into so many people’s hands than iPhone. It’s truly amazing how much iPhone impacts the world each and every day.

Our intention with the iPhone has always been to create something so powerful, so immersive, and so magical that the hardware virtually disappears. Over the last 10 years, we’ve reimagined or invented numerous technologies to create just that experience.

The first iPhone forever changed how we interact with technology by introducing Multi-Touch. For the first time, you are actually touching the software instead of buttons; it’s magical.

The App Store changed the way we work, play, learn, communicate, spawning new companies and new industries along the way. We took the viewing experience to places literally never seen before with technologies like the Retina Display.

We changed the way people communicate with features like iMessage and FaceTime that allowed us all to connect in more meaningful ways.

And with Siri, we used artificial intelligence to make our voices more powerful. iPhone even revolutionized security and privacy with Touch ID and our wallets with Apple Pay.

And of course, iPhone put amazing easy-to-use cameras into our hands becoming the most popular way to capture the images of our lives.

Over the past decade, we pushed forward with innovation after innovation after innovation bringing us to this moment, when now we can create devices that are far more intelligent, far more capable, far more personal than ever before. We have huge iPhone news for you today and it gets started right now.

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iPhone 8 — this is a huge step forward for iPhone. And to tell you all about it, I’d like to invite Phil to the stage. Phil?

Phil Schiller – SVP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple

Thank you, Tim. Well, good morning everyone. I am so excited to tell you all about the new iPhone 8 and the new iPhone 8 Plus. These are a new generation of iPhone improved on everything we love about iPhone. The design is all new. It has glass in both the front and the back. The aluminum band beautifully matches the finish of each iPhone 8. It comes in silver, space gray, and a beautiful new gold finish. It’s made from an aerospace grade 7000 series custom aluminum alloy. The glass has a seven layer color process making sure it is a beautiful precise hue. And the glass is further reinforced by an internal laser welded steel and copper structure. We’re so excited because this glass is the most durable ever in a smartphone.

iPhone 8 and 8 Plus is also microscopically sealed for water and dust resistance. And they have a new Retina HD Display in each model. It’s a 4.7-inch Retina Display in iPhone 8 and a 5.5 inch in iPhone 8 Plus.

Now, Apple Retina Displays are renowned for their incredible color accuracy and they have great wide cinema quality color gamut. We’ve built in our 3D Touch technology into the display and for the first time in iPhone display, it has our True Tone technology. Now with True Tone, it adapts the color, temperature and intensity to the ambient light around us.

Along with the displays, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have new stereo speakers as well. The 25% louder than the speakers in iPhone 7 and have a deeper bass too.

And this is pretty incredible. Inside iPhone 8 and 8 Plus is a brand new chip, and this is a breakthrough performance in a mobile device. We call it A11 Bionic. This is the most powerful and smartest chip ever in a smartphone. The 64-bit design, 4.3 billion transistors, six core — it is so awesome, it has two high performance cores. They are 25% faster than the high performance cores and the previous industry leading A10 chip. It has four high efficiency cores — they’re up to 70% faster than the ones in the A10 chip. They’re managed by our second-generation performance controller that now can use all six cores at once, can deliver up to 70% improvement in multi-threaded workloads.

And they have our first ever Apple designed graphics processing unit or GPU. This is a three-core design; it’s 30% faster than the graphics in the previous A10. And the GPU is designed to accelerate 3D apps and games, especially those that use our new Metal 2 framework. And the GPU also is incredible for machine learning apps and those kind of tasks get a big speed up if they use our core machine learning framework too.

There’s more to it. A11 Bionic includes our new generation image signal processor or ISP. So you know this is used in photography. It delivers faster autofocus in low light. It has new pixel processing for sharpness and texture. And for the first time to help reduce noise, it has hardware-enabled multiband noise reduction. All of this helps to improve performance and helps us take better pictures.

Perhaps the most beloved feature of every new generation of iPhone is the cameras, and people love taking photos. And customers send us their photos for our Shot on iPhone campaign. Like this one, this was sent from Jeremy Perez-cruz; he shot it with an iPhone 7 plus.

People are going to love taking pictures with the iPhone 8 camera. It has an all new 12 megapixel sensor; it’s larger and faster. It provides 83% more light and it provides more — it’s more power efficient at the same time. It has deeper pixels and a new color filter. So this adds up to having better color saturation, a wider dynamic range of color, and lower noise in your photos and videos.

iPhone 8 Plus has two new sensors in its dual camera. The wide angle camera has an f1.8 aperture and optical image stabilization. The telephoto camera has f2.8 aperture. So as always, we want to show you the kind of photos you can take off of our new cameras and these are photos we’re going to show that have not been retouched in any way. They are straight off the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.

So here’s the first one. This is absolutely beautiful. Now that’s not the Golden Gate Bridge, this is taken in Portugal. It shows the beauty of wide color gamut. It has great dynamic range, sharpness and incredibly low noise; just look at that blue sky.

Here is another example. It shows incredible wide quality color again. Just look at the skin tones and the detail in the hair and the eyes. If you look closely in her eyes, you can actually see the photographer reflected there holding an iPhone to take the picture.

Here is a great example of amazing textures and depth in photography, can really feel the fabric and you can see details in their face behind the fabric.

Here is a great example of low-light photography — texture detail and very subtle colors in this darker environment.

Last year we introduced Portrait mode. iPhone 8 takes fantastic Portrait modes and people flip over taking these photos and now with the iPhone 8 Plus, you’re going to get sharper details, more uses in low light and even a more natural bokeh in the background of the photos.

So this is a big hit. We had a surprise new feature last year of Portrait mode. We brought it out in beta and it just got better and better over time and customers sent us photos, they love this. So we challenged the engineering team to do that again, to make it easy for all of us to take advantage of an advanced photographic technique and they’re doing it. And it has to do with lighting. And if you’ve ever had a professional portrait taken, you know the pro photographers use advanced equipment and have a great understanding of advanced techniques to literally sculpt the light on your face to create the perfect mood for a portrait photograph. Our team is making this possible for all of us.

Using the new dual cameras and the A11 Bionic chip in the iPhone 8 plus, the team has come up with a new feature called Portrait Lighting. And this is beta but it will ship with the iPhone 8 Plus. And here’s how it works. You compose a photo in the camera app, using the Portrait mode. The dual cameras in the ISP sends the scene. They create a depth map, they separate the subject from the background. And then using machine learning it creates facial landmarks and actually changes the lighting of the contours over your face. That happens while you’re composing the shot. It’s super easy to use. Right when you’re in the camera app, you use Portrait mode and there is a new menu to select the lighting effect you want to use. You just swipe to pick a different effect or whatever you want to shoot.

And these aren’t filters, this is real-time analysis of the light on your subject’s face. In fact, you can go in later after you shot a portrait mode photo into the Photos app and change the lighting effect to select which one you want to use in your photograph. The team has done an unbelievable job on this.

And so here’s an example of a photo that’s taken, not touched in any way. This is Portrait mode using Portrait Lighting, it’s actually using the setting in Portrait Lighting for stage light, so it drops away the background to make the stunning dramatic photograph. It’s absolutely beautiful.

So iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are incredible for taking pictures. They are also amazing for video as well. In fact, iPhone 8 has the highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone. Along with the ISP, we have an Apple designed video encoder. This enables faster frame rates and higher quality video. It does real-time image and motion analysis to predict changes in the content and optimize the video encoding algorithms.

So while you’re shooting video, let’s say, 4K sixty frames a second, the iPhone 8 divides each frame into individual tiles, 2 million of them and we analyze the 2 million tiles every second but for details like texture and edges to predict whether that tile has grass, sky, water, or movement in it.

So let’s say you’re shooting 4K 60 frame of video and look like this, it’s beautifully optimized, for quality and for compression level. And this video was shot on an iPhone in 4K. It’s amazing. And if you are one of the many people who love shooting slowmo videos, that’s gotten a lot better too. Now you can shoot 1080p HD 240 frames a second, that’s double the frame rate of previous. Absolutely beautiful.

So now iPhone 8 is incredible for shooting photos; it’s incredible for video. There’s a third category of use of the camera that’s going to become increasingly important in our mobile devices. And that’s augmented reality. This is an incredible area for us to advance in. And our teams have worked together — hardware and software — to make iPhone — the first iPhone really created for augmented reality and the first smartphone designed for it as well. We custom tuned each iPhone for augmented reality.

The cameras are actually individually calibrated in the factory and that makes a huge difference in the performance for AR, through new gyroscopes, new accelerometers, and ARKit software is tightly tuned to all this hardware to deliver the best experience for motion tracking. And AR greatly benefits in the new A11 Bionic chip. The CPU handles world tracking. The new Apple GPU renders immersive graphics at up to sixty frames a second. The ISP – there is real-time lighting estimation. This stuff is amazing that it happens on a device in the palm of our hands.

So I want to show you some of the work that developers have started to do with AR apps on iPhone 8. So here’s one example. It’s a game Warhammer 40K: Freeblade from Pixel Toys. You can now use their Photo mode to bring the freeblade knight into the real world and play it right where your friends are standing around you.

Here’s another, from Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media Team. They’re enhancing the At Bat app with ARKit so that when you’re at the game you can hold up your iPhone and see real-time player information and stats on top of the game you’re watching.

Here is Sky Guide from Fifth Star Labs. You can use ARKit with this app to actually superimpose the map on top of the sky as you’re looking at it around you. This isn’t some generic sky, this is the sky around you.

So now we want to show you sighting AR app right here live on stage playing on an iPhone 8. It’s from Directive Games. This is a new startup based in Shanghai. It’s founded by developers who have worked in some of the biggest franchises in gaming. So please welcome Atli Mar, CEO and Co-founder of Directive Games. Atli?

Atli Mar – CEO and Co-founder of Directive Games

Thanks Phil. Earlier this summer, with the introduction of ARKit, Apple changed gaming forever. What we’re about to show you is one of the world’s first competitive multiplayer games designed to be played entirely in augmented reality. This is The Machines.

In the game, players battle their friends in real time, either online or around the table in the same room. My friend and co-founder Andrea is preparing a match for us where we play the rebels, against the Dominators.

What’s really cool is with ARKit, the Metal 2 on the new iPhone, we are able to experience games in an entirely new way. Since players are able to view the game from any angle, our content has to be incredibly detailed. With the power of the new iPhone and Unreal support for Metal 2, we are able to render the entire level on screen, an amazing 1.2 million polygons, while also allowing you to move in close to really appreciate the high visual fidelity. And just look at those 4K textures; it’s gorgeous.

Now so we go into the game. AR allows us to use our position in the real world to gain a tactical advantage. Just look how Andrea is moving towards this cave, lining up his targets. This is something that would’ve been hard to do with Pencil too. It’s like you’re not just controlling the game, you’re in the game.

Another awesome addition to the experience is spatial audio. If you go close to the action the sound increases. And if a solid object gets between you and the action, the sound is occluded perfectly, and with the stereo speakers on the new iPhone, this is truly amazing.

It looks like we’re getting hit pretty hard. Yes, we’ll protect our hero and let’s rain fire on our enemies, move closer to their base and get ready for the fatal blow with our [sobua]. All the trucks, it is there, can you take it out at the same time?

What you just saw is an amazing evolution in how games are played and experienced, thanks to the combination of ARKit and Metal 2 on the brand new iPhone. We can’t wait for you to play it. Look for The Machines on the App Store this month, exclusively on iOS. Thank you.

Phil Schiller – SVP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple

Thank you, Atli. Now let’s talk about Wireless.

We once said that the future is wireless. Boy, were we right? Now it’s becoming more true than ever before with iPhone 8. It supports LTE Advanced for fast networking connections, Bluetooth 5.0 for the latest accessories. Of course, it supports our great beloved AirPods and the Beats X headphones that use our W1 chip and the new Beats Studio 3s as well.

And now with iPhone 8 with its glass back, we’re enabling the freedom of wireless charging. I mean, this is a simple thing; we do this every day. We use our phones in the day and we charge them at night, often on a charger by our bed stand in our homes or in our hotels. And words can’t describe just how much nicer it is to just put it down and pick it up whenever you want to charge without ever having to plug in a cable again, and want to do this by your bedside and want to do this in a cafe or restaurant as they start to support wireless charging. And want to do it in an airport so you can top up your charge before you get on the next flight.

And perhaps the best use case of all, in your car. You can get into your car, wirelessly connect and start using CarPlay, put your iPhone in the center console and it’s charging all without ever having to plug in a cable again. What makes this possible is we’re building into iPhone 8 and 8 Plus wireless charging with Qi, that Qi is the leading openness wireless charging standard. And we hope to help Qi by increasing adoption of it and creating new use cases for it. Many restaurants, shops, airports, cars have started to build in support for Qi wireless charging and they work with iPhone 8.

Many companies are offering Qi chargers and those that are Qi certified should all work with iPhone 8. And we’ve worked with some developers who are creating Qi chargers and we’re going to offer them in our stores and online for our iPhone 8 customers, like this one, from Mophie, and this one from Belkin.

So that’s iPhone 8. It’s a new generation of iPhone. It improves on everything we love about iPhone. It is packed with innovative technologies from the glass and aluminum design to the Retina HD displays, the new A11 Bionic chip. They’re designed for AR apps like no phone has been before, a new single and dual cameras that support for the brand new photo lighting effects in Portrait mode and wireless charging.

Now, iPhone 7 came in these three configurations starting at 32 gigabytes. iPhone 8 is going to start with twice the capacity at 64 gigabytes and the second one at 256 gigabytes. And the price will be $699.

iPhone 8 Plus will have the same two configurations: 64 gigabytes and 256 gigabytes. And it will be priced starting at $799. You will be able to preorder them starting this Friday on September 15 and will be available a week later on September 22. And we can all upgrade to iOS 11 starting on September 19.

So that is iPhone 8. I’d like to turn it back to Tim.

Tim Cook – CEO, Apple Inc.

Thanks, Phil. iPhone, a new generation of iPhone and a huge step forward. But we’re not stopping there.

We do have one more thing. Now, we have great respect for these words and we don’t use them lightly. Our teams have been hard at work for years on something that is important to all of us: the future of the smartphone.

The first iPhone revolutionized the decade of technology and changed the world in the process. Now 10 years later, it is only fitting that we are here in this place, on this day, to reveal a product that will set the path for technology for the next decade.

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Thank you. This is iPhone 10. It is the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone. And to tell you all about it, I’d like to invite Phil back up. Phil?

Phil Schiller – SVP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple

Thank you, Tim. I think you can imagine there are a lot of people at Apple that didn’t get much sleep last night preparing for this this. This is so exciting. And it is all-screen. It is beautiful to look at. It is incredible to hold. The display fits edge to edge, top to bottom. It goes into each corner where it follows the tight curve of the design. And it has glass on both the front and the back using the same super-strong formula as iPhone 8.

The band is made from a surgical grade stainless steel, that’s both durable and polished with beautiful finish. And look how the glass and the stainless steel fit, form a continuous surface from front to back. There has never been anything like it.

It’s engineered to be water and dust resistant at a microscopic level, comes in two beautiful finishes: space gray and silver. Each has an incredible depth in a pearl essence to the color in the glass. iPhone 10 has an all new display. It’s called the Super Retina Display. The level of quality and responsiveness and efficiency is really quite a breakthrough in mobile displays.

Start with the Super Retina Display. It’s 5.8 inches on the diagonal. It’s got 2436 by 1125 resolution; that’s over 2.7 million pixels. It has 458 pixels per inch. Now this is the highest resolution in pixel density ever in an iPhone. And it’s remarkable how this larger display can be packed into a phone that fits so comfortably in our hands.

The Super Retina Display uses OLED technology. This is the first OLED display great enough to be in an iPhone. Traditional OLED displays have had great benefits, like high contrast and resolution and no backlight means you can make them thinner. But they came with trade-offs in brightness and rich colors and color accuracy at least compared to our retina displays. But the Super Retina Display overcomes all of these deficiencies and lives up to all that we expect from an iPhone display.

In addition, the new Super Retina Display supports HDR in both the Dolby Vision and HDR10 formats. It has an incredible a million to one contrast ratio, it has the best color accuracy. It integrates our unique 3D Touch technology right into the display and like iPhone 8, it includes True Tone.

Now all this innovative Super Retina Display technology is great. But it’s the point of it that matters. And the point of it is to enable an entirely new experience that’s more fluid, more intuitive.

So let’s start with the simplest thing: How do you wake up your iPhone 10? Well, certainly you can raise to wake just like before, but now you can also just tap on the screen and it wakes up. And with the display going edge to edge and top to bottom, there’s no more Home button. And this is an important part and a big step forward in the iPhone user experience. Something we use hundreds of times a day for so many tasks is an opportunity to rethink how iPhone should work and how we can make it better.

So now when you want to go to the Home screen, you simply swipe up from the bottom and you go Home; it’s that simple. It’s that easy. It’s incredibly smooth and once you do it for the first time, you know there’s never been a better way. And it works the same way across the system. You’re running an app like Mail, when you want to go Home, what do you do? You simply swipe up from the bottom and you go Home; it’s that easy and that intuitive, so much nicer.

But the same fluid gesture also works for multitasking. So if you’re in an app and you want to multitask, you just swipe up from the bottom, you pause for a split second and you’re in multitasking, and then you can tap on any app and jump right to it.

We also use the Home button for Siri. So how are we going to do that now? Well, of course, you can just speak to your phone as before and say, “Hey Siri,” No, I didn’t, shutting one’s phones off, or you can now press the side button in which has been made larger, once you press it in, you can just talk to Siri.

I know what you’re thinking about. What about unlocking? How do you unlock your phone with iPhone 10? And this has been very important part of the iPhone user experience from the very beginning. The first iPhone we led the way with Multi-Touch. We created slide to unlock. This protected the iPhone from turning on when you didn’t want to like in your pocket.

Starting with iPhone 5S, we invented Touch ID, made it fast and easy to protect all your data and unlock your phone with just your fingerprint. And Touch ID became the gold standard in consumer device biometric protection. But we know we can do something that’s better.

The iPhone 10, your iPhone is locked until you look at it and it recognizes you. Nothing else has ever been simpler, more natural, and effortless. We call this Face ID. So Face ID is the future of how we unlock our smartphones and protect our sensitive information. To make Face ID possible took some of the most advanced technology we have ever created and much of it is packed right up here into this tiny little area at the top of the display; we call this the TrueDepth Camera System. And it is made up of incredible state-of-the-art technology. There’s an infrared camera, a flood illuminator, a front-sight camera and a dot projector, and that’s not all. There’s also the proximity sensor, the ambient light sensor, the speaker and microphone, all packed into this TrueDepth Camera System area. It is amazing.

And here’s how it works. Every time you glance at your iPhone 10, it detects your face with the flood illuminator even in the dark. The IR camera takes an IR image. The DOT projector projects out over 30,000 invisible IR dots. We use the IR image in the dot pattern and we push them through neural networks to create a mathematical model of your face. And then we check that mathematical model against the one that we’ve stored that you set up earlier to see if it’s a match and unlock your phone. And this all happens in real time; it all happens invisibly. You don’t see these things going off. It’s incredible, it just all works, it all happens.

To create Face ID, we worked with thousands of people around the world and the team took over a billion images. And with that they developed multiple neural networks to create Face ID. And to process the machine learning in Face ID’s neural networks, we built Apple’s first ever neural engine. Yeah, this is a big deal. In our pockets, in our phones, is the A11 Bionic chip with a built-in neural engine to process face recognition.

Now the neural engine is a specialized hardware built for a specific set of machine learning algorithms. This is another example of the incredible collaboration between the hardware and software teams that’s only possible at Apple. The neural engine is a state-of-the-art ultrafast processing system that uses the highest density computing ever. It’s a dual core design; it can perform over 600 billion operations per second, and it’s used to the real time processing of Face ID recognition. But for all of us it’s just super easy and fun to use.

When you set up Face ID, you just follow the on-screen instructions. It tells you how to move your head around in the camera so Face ID can recognize your face. And that’s it. You do that once when you set it up, and Face ID learns your face. Even if you change your hairstyle. You decide to put on glasses. You’re wearing a hat, so you do it up, anyway you do it Face ID learns your face. It learns who you are and it adapts to you as your face changes over time, let’s say you start to grow a beard. It works in day, it works at night.

And the team has worked hard to make sure the Face ID can easily be spoofed by things like photographs. They’ve even gone and worked with professional mask makers and makeup artists in Hollywood to protect against these attempts to beat Face ID. These are actual masks used by the engineering team to train the neural networks to protect against them with Face ID. It’s incredible. The team has worked hard to protect your face data. Yes! Your face data is protected with the Secure Enclave and A11 Bionic chip.

All the processing is done on iPhone 10 and not sent to a server. We require user attention to unlock. That means if your eyes are closed, you’re looking away, it’s not going to unlock.

Now how do we compare that to Touch ID? How secure is it? Well, there’s no perfect system, not even biometric ones but as we said earlier, Touch ID is the gold standard for consumer device biometric protection. And the data for Touch ID has been one in 50,000. Meaning that the chance that a random person could use their fingerprint to unlock your iPhone has been about one in 50,000 and it’s been great.

So what are the similar statistics for Face ID? One in a million. The chance that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone 10 and unlock it with their face is about one in a million. And of course, the statistics are lower if that person shares a close genetic relationship with you. So, for example, if you happen to have an evil twin, you really need to protect your pass code or your sensitive data with a pass code. Hopefully you don’t.

Face ID also works with Apple Pay. So to pay for things you just double tap the button on the side. You look at iPhone 10 to authenticate and hold it near the payment terminal to pay. It’s that easy, fast, intuitive, simple.

Face ID also works with third-party apps. Third-party apps already support Touch ID and they work with Face ID. So apps like Mint, 1Password, E-Trade all work with Face ID.

So Face ID — it’s face authentication for unlocking your iPhone and protecting your sensitive data. It uses the innovative TrueDepth camera system. It’s trained with neural networks, it’s easy to set up. It learns your face and it adapts to your face over time. It’s aware of your attention. It works with Apple Pay and it works with third-party apps.

This True-Depth Camera System is incredible technology and it’s going to enable so many great new user experiences. The first one, of course, is Face ID. But the team decided to create another great experience with it as well. This is a fun one. It has to do with emojis. We use emojis to communicate with others and to express emotion but of course you can’t customize emojis; they only have a limited amount of expressiveness to them. So our team created something called Animoji. These are animated emojis. These are emojis that you control with your face.

Animojis track more than 50 facial muscle movements. They’ve been meticulously animated to create amazing expressiveness. And just watch this, can you? The way you create and share Animoji are write from within Apple messages. You can pick from a dozen different animated emojis to share and express whatever you want to express your family and friends.

So iPhone 10 is packed with innovative technologies that enable new user experiences. I’m really excited to invite out Craig Federighi to show you iPhone 10 and what it’s like to use it for the very first time. Craig?

Craig Federighi – SVP of Software Engineering, Apple

Hey everybody. Wow! Well, I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to give all of you your first live look at iPhone 10. This is a phone we’ve been dreaming about for a long time but the reality of it in your hand, it’s really something epic. So let’s take a look.

Here is iPhone 10. Now unlocking it is as easy as looking at it and swiping up and, you know, let’s try that again. Whoa whoa, let’s go to back up here and get right in.

So here we are and you see this expansive display. It’s just a beautiful canvas for all of your content and your gestures. Now I am just going to go into the Weather app here and you can just see how apps look when they take advantage of the edge to edge display.

Now exiting an app couldn’t be easier. You just swipe from the bottom, just like this and throw the app right back on the Home screen. Let me do that again. Just swipe right up.

Let’s take a look at the Web. It just looks unbelievable, edge to edge on this display. And your photos, of course, are just gorgeous as well. Let’s jump into this one, just amazing.

Now video, of course, is unbelievable on the Super Retina Display. It looks great in Portrait and in Landscape and, of course, this is HDR video, just incredible of you.

And Phil told you a little bit about multitasking on the device. Let me show you. I’m just going to jump into Maps. If I want to move between my applications, I can just swipe up and stop, my other apps all come in. I can get at them with a tap. Just lift, it’s just that easy and we have a great shortcut as well. You can actually move back between apps just by swiping along the bottom, like this. It’s really easy.

Now you may be wondering about Control Center. And worry not! Right where your status indicators are in the upper right hand corner, you can just swipe down and get a control center from anywhere. It’s that easy.

Now let’s take a look again at Face ID, because unlocking your phone is just amazingly intuitive. You just raise it, look at it, and swipe right up to get started. But now it’s also incredibly fast. So I’m just going to do that again. Just raise it, look at it, swipe. I don’t have to wait and it’s also really really smart. So let’s say I wake my phone and I’m not looking at it, stays locked but once I give it my attention, well it unlocks and I can get right in; it’s really cool.

Now Face ID is also great for Apple Pay. So if I’m at the register, I can just double click on the side button, I’m authenticated. And I can get in, just like that. Now the TrueDepth camera behind Face ID isn’t just about authentication. In fact, we’ve extended ARKit with some incredible new face tracking capabilities that provide a whole new class of augmented reality experiences.

Now we’ve been working on with SnapChat and I’d like to show it to you now. I am going to launch in. You see, it’s built to measure my face and now I can just select the mask. The tracking is just unreal. Check out this one. Now look at the detail over the eyes, the incredible metallic reflections, the quality of the tracking is just stunning.

Now, of course, many of us like to communicate with emoji. And with Animoji, we can now breathe our own personality into our favorites. It’s available as an app right inside of Messages, so I can just go right in here and it immediately starts tracking me. So I can make whatever expression I want, like just pick that up and use it as a sticker or drop it on my message like that. We also let you manipulate these in full screen. You can audition your favorites with some really great ones, like the kitty cat, so expressive and ferocious. So happy puppy, check out the physics in the ears. That pig. We’ve got a chicken. And the unicorn, mythical creature, favorite of the start-up.

And if you were by chance wondering what humanity would do when given access to the most advanced facial tracking technology available, you now have your answer. Now these can be so much fun you’re going to share them. Unfortunately we let you record messages. I am going to record a message here for Tim. “Hey Tim, I’m not sure what the protocol is here but I’d like to call GIFs on the box for my favorite emoji. Which one do you like?” (recorded version) Now you can send it with just a tap and it appears as a looping video right inside the transcript, or really lucky for our grand finale we might just get a response back from Tim. Oh here it is, let’s take a look.

[Tim Cook: Take me to your leader. Wait a minute Craig! I am your leader. Let’s wrap this thing up.]

So that is your first look at the new iPhone 10 and the amazing experience with the TrueDepth camera and Animoji. I think you’re going to love it. Thank you very much.

Phil Schiller – SVP of Worldwide Marketing at Apple

Thank you, Craig. Now let’s talk about the amazing cameras in iPhone 10.

iPhone 10 has dual — 12 megapixel sensors, dual cameras, both faster sensors, wider sensors just like in iPhone 8. There is new color filters, deeper pixels. There’s an f1.8 aperture on the white angle camera and a faster f2.4 aperture on a telephoto that lets in 36% more light to the telephoto camera.

But the big news on the camera in iPhone 10 is that it has dual optical image stabilization. That means it’s OIS in both the wide angle and the telephoto lens, that’s a lot of magnets moving around in a very small space but it helps with compensating for handshake and to take better photos and videos in low light.

It has also a better quad LED True Tone Flash that is twice the uniformity of light on our subjects. So let’s look at some photos taken from the back side camera on iPhone 10. This is absolutely beautiful: great dynamic range, detailed, low noise. This is a beautiful photo. The textures are simply stunning. Now there is zero shutter lag that helps to freeze motions, so we can get a photo like this. Look at that: blue sky with low noise; it’s absolutely to die for.

OIS delivers low light performance, so now you can get incredible low light images like this with a telephoto camera as well as the wide angle.

And iPhone 10 is fantastic for the Portrait mode feature that we all love. iPhone 10, you get great portrait mode especially in lower light. And iPhone 10 supports the brand new Portrait Lighting feature as well. That’s again a photo taken right off of iPhone 10, not retouched in anyway with the stage lighting effect dropping out the background.

iPhone 10 is great for photos. It’s amazing for 4K video, and like iPhone 8, it’s tuned for AR applications. It has factory calibrated cameras, the new gyroscope, accelerometer, the performance advantage of A11 Bionic chip, CPU, GPU, and IPS and ARKit is tuned for iPhone 10.

And the back-side camera that we use so much is not the only camera, of course, on the iPhone. We have our front-side camera as well and people love to use those for taking selfie photographs. And now with iPhone 10 and its TrueDepth camera, it really delivers a breakthrough in the photos you can take for selfies, because now with selfies you can take Portrait mode photos as well. And it also supports Portrait Lighting all through the front side TrueDepth camera. And people are going to be blown away with the selfies you can take with the iPhone 10. This is absolutely beautiful.

Of course, everything we’ve seen is powered in iPhone 10 by the amazing new A11 Bionic chip. We talked all about in iPhone 8 but it’s worth hitting on the highlights again, because there has never been anything like it: 64 bit, six core design, 4.3 billion transistors, 2 high performance cores, four high efficiency cores, our new second generation performance controller that uses all six cores at once, our first Apple designed graphics processing unit, the brand new ISP that improves auto focus, the video encoder that has real time motion analysis while you’re shooting video, the neural engine and of course the Secure Enclave to protect our Face ID data. All this performance, I am sure as you expect, does come with a hit to battery life. So I think it’s important tell you that we’ve increased it. It lasts. Again hardware and software teams worked really hard to deliver two more hours of all day battery life to us.

So wireless — just like iPhone 8, iPhone 10 is also built for a wireless world. It has Qi charging through the glass back and they work with the Qi charging devices like the ones we mentioned earlier from Mophie and Belkin. They also work with third-party Qi devices that are Qi certified. And there are a lot of great devices, they’re going to start to come to market particularly because of iPhone 8 and iPhone 10.

But we also think we can make the wireless charging experience even better. So our team wants to create something — I think all of us are going to want to use and it might actually help move the entire industry forward. So we’re going to give you a sneak peek of this idea right now.

I’m sure many of you do this. I do this, have a lot of Apple products. I love them and use them all day long. I charge them at night. You plug in your cables, you plug in your chargers. You take those cables and chargers with you on the road when you travel. We think we have an idea of how to make this a better experience.

And here it is. It’s a mat that you place your iPhone 8 or iPhone 10 down and it just starts to charge. And it has a beautiful new interface. It doesn’t stop there. You can place your Series 3 Apple Watch down on it and it starts to charge as well. And you can place your AirPods with the optional new wireless charging case on it and it starts to charge as well. They all charge. The system has a great interface. They intelligently work together and communicate with each other to manage the charging through one more efficient charging system. This is not possible with current standards but our team knows how to do this. We call it AirPower.

We hope people love it, that it encourages others to create more advanced solutions based on technology like this. We’re going to be working with the Qi standards team to incorporate these benefits into the future of the standards to make wireless charging better for everyone. So look for the AirPower charger next year.

So that is iPhone 10. It is the future of the smartphone. And it’s packed with many innovative features — huge list, won’t go through them all — they add up to a new better experience. We’re so excited about iPhone 10. We created a beautiful video to tell you all about it.

[Video clip: (voiceover) For more than a decade, our intention has been to create an iPhone that is all display, a physical object that disappears into the experience. This is iPhone 10. Developing the form and display together defines a whole new integration, making the boundary between the device and the screen hard to discern. The custom OLED panel was engineered to fold and seamlessly combine with the external surfaces. Mechanical buttons give way to touch and gestures. There’s no Home button, a single swipe takes you to the Home screen. A more responsive touch system means the gestures in iOS 11 are more fluid. The polished stainless steel band reinforces the water resistant all glass design. This new glass formulation, the most durable ever in a smartphone, enables for the first time wireless charging.

Our new TrueDepth Camera System contained within this tiny space uses extraordinary depth sensing technology to let you unlock your phone with a glance. We call this Face ID. It maps the unique geometry of your face with over 30,000 invisible dots. This data is analyzed by the neural engine on the A11 Bionic chip, the first of its kind. Your iPhone now recognizes you even in the dark and will adapt to your physical changes. This makes your face your secure password. So with just a look, you can authenticate your phone or use Apple Pay.

The TrueDepth camera also enables new experiences, like bringing emojis to life by mapping more than 50 facial muscles in real time, so you can be happy or sad or cross. Both the front and rear facing cameras now have Portrait mode and for the first time you can actually define the light in a scene. Based on fundamental photographic principles, Portrait Lighting produces the effect of real studio lighting. On the back, the dual camera system is completely redesigned. It’s made even smarter by the A11 Bionic chip. It’s a platform that will create a reality, it will redefine what’s possible. This is iPhone 10. – Video concludes]

 

The team works hard to make iPhone 8 and iPhone 10 in the most environmentally friendly manner possible. We have arsenic free display glass, mercury free displays. They are BFR free, PVC free, beryllium free and now made with a low carbon process for the aluminum design and they are highly recyclable with the materials. Really proud of that list, so I like to say it at a free time.

iPhone 10 also comes in two configurations: 64 gigs and 256 gigabytes. They will be priced $999. You can order it starting on October 27 and begin to ship on November 3. So this is the future of the smartphone shipping this year.

So this is our lineup for the holidays. And every year we say it’s a great line-up for the holidays and it is. But this year is really special. It starts with iPhone SE, iPhone 6S, iPhone 7, the new generation iPhone 8 and the futuristic iPhone 10.

Ten years ago, when Steve introduced the world to iPhone, he closed with a quote from Wayne Gretzky. It said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Steve said that’s what Apple does: we skate to where the puck is going to be. And that is what iPhone 10 is all about. Thank you. Back to you, Tim.

Tim Cook – CEO, Apple Inc.

iPhone 10: This really is the future. We’ve made a great fun new ad that I would love to show it to you.

[Video clip]

That is iPhone 10. Thank you. Thank you….

So what a morning we’ve had! Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular which gives you the freedom to go anywhere you want with or without your iPhone. Apple TV 4K brings the magic of the cinemas straight to your living room with incredible 4K and HDR content. iPhone 8, a beautiful glass design, incredible cameras, wireless charging, A11 Bionic chip and of course powerful AR capabilities. We think you’re going to love it.

And iPhone 10, the most advanced iPhone we’ve ever made — the incredible new design, Face ID, TrueDepth Camera System and more powerful technologies than we’ve ever put in an iPhone before. It really is the future of the smartphone.

And we began this morning with some inspiring words from Steve. One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. We work really hard at Apple to create wonderful things. And we hope you love what we’ve introduced today. I think Steve would be really proud of them.

I’d like to thank everyone at Apple who made today possible. I’d like everybody in Apple to stand up that are here representing their teams from hardware and software and services. Please stand up – and operations, our amazing retail employees — everyone that worked so hard on this theater and on Apple Park.

One of the great things about this theater is an unbelievable hands-on area. It is the most beautiful hands-on area we’ve ever had by far. And I would encourage all of you to join us there and get your hands on these wonderful products. Thank you so much for spending the morning with us. Thank you.

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