iPhone 17 launch, Apple Watches, and AirPods Pro 3 on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 12 September 2025
β±οΈ 82 minutes
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Summary
After months of rumors, now we know everything about the iPhone 17 range and the new Apple Watches, plus the new AirPods Pro 3. Here's what we've learned, what Apple left out, and what this all means for the future.
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Links from the Show:
- iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more are coming on September 15
- Check out the Apple iPhone 17 event with AppleInsider's in-person coverage
- Hands on from Apple Park: iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air & more
- AirPods Pro 3 arrive with heart rate sensing, and best-ever ANC
- Live Translation will also work with AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2
- Apple Watch Series 11 hides hypertension monitoring & better battery in a familiar shell
- Apple Watch SE 3 refreshed with modern design, features, and budget-friendly price
- Apple Watch Ultra 3 iterative yet necessary update with 5G is here
- Apple expects to notify 1 million people that they have hypertension in a year
- Some older Apple Watch models will get hypertension notifications
- Apple's base iPhone 17 grows up with a better screen & improved cameras
- iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 get an extra year of satellite features for free
- How the new memory shield on iPhone 17 makes you even more secure
- iPhone 17 lets users turn off screen strobing for better eye comfort
- Apple exec likes that customers will struggle to choose between iPhone Air & Pro
- iPhone buyer's guide fall 2025: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, or iPhone Air?
- MagSafe battery resurrected, gives up to 40 hours of use to iPhone Air
- iPhone 17 Pro is here with hugely improved cooling & unibody frame
- Final Cut Camera updated for ProRes RAW, genlock, and Center Stage
- iPhone 17 Pro vs iPhone 16 Pro - The new top tier, compared
- How to prepare for iPhone 17 preorders and beat the rush
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (06:53) - Awe Dropping
- (08:54) - AirPods Pro 3
- (26:43) - Apple Watch
- (36:01) - Apple Watch Ultra 3
- (39:02) - iPhone 17
- (49:50) - iPhone Air
- (01:00:24) - iPhone 17 Pro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | This is your host, Wesley Hilliard speaking. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm joined once again by William Gallagher. |
| 0:11.6 | He's off buying a blue iPhone, I think, but he'll be here in a second to talk. |
| 0:17.0 | In the meantime, I want to tell you about our sponsors oracle private internet access |
| 0:21.8 | and claude from anthropics so if you are a paid subscriber for apple insider plus you will not be |
| 0:29.9 | hearing about ads you're going to be hearing about our impressions from this event uh we're going to be |
| 0:35.4 | talking today in the main show about the odd dropping event everything apple announced we're going to be talking today in the main show about the odd-dropping event, everything Apple announced. We're going to be hitting all the high points. William, of course, already kind of gave us the overview in a very nicely done short episode in the middle of the week. But, you know, this is where we're going to get into the nitty-gritty of all the details and specs and then after an Apple Insider |
| 0:54.4 | plus we're going to talk about what we're ordering and our opinions and how we felt about the |
| 0:59.3 | show itself and how they presented it so william i'll let you talk now how you doing i'm grand |
| 1:05.4 | thank you but so much to say one of them is the moment you said there our our impressions, I'm thinking, I'll do Tim Cook, |
| 1:12.4 | you do Greg Josriac. |
| 1:14.4 | No, that's not what you mean. |
| 1:16.0 | But I particularly like what you said then about Appensider Plus, because I think Apple's |
| 1:21.5 | video events are really, really good. |
| 1:23.2 | But this one, I thought it was particularly special, except there were a couple of just slight |
| 1:28.4 | oddities that you would have expected an editor or a director to have picked up on and I'm |
| 1:34.0 | curious about that whether it meant it was done later the new one there wasn't time so much |
| 1:38.5 | to think about for it but was there a Starbucks cup on a table on the background? |
| 1:51.9 | There's a famous BBC drama called Blake 7 where on this incredible futuristic spaceship called The Liberator, |
| 1:59.9 | you can see BBC staff toolbox from where they were trying to fix the broken set just before it. |
| 2:02.2 | So, yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm thinking about. |
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