It’s a new month and that means the soothsayers are making predictions for a potential Apple event. But even if there’s no event this month, we can expect lots of new products and services.
Lots of software upgrades
While iOS 16 hit iPhone users in September, iPad and Mac users have been patiently waiting for the OS updates that were first previewed in July during the Worldwide Developer Conference.
Macworld reports that we can expect iOS, tvOS and iPadOS to all have version 16.1 releases in the coming weeks. Given they’ve all been in beta for developers for a while that’s not a surprise.
macOS Ventura should be out at about the same time as well. I’ve been running it on my Mac Studio and the current public beta is stable. There are lots of little tweaks and updates that make this another nice incremental update.
The M2 will move further into the Apple range
While the MacBook Air was the first Mac to be equipped with the M2, we can expect the latest Apple Silicon creation to appear in an updated MacBoom Pro range, the Mac mini (which hasn’t been updated for two years) and the Mac Studio.
One of the neat thing Apple has done with the M-series Apple Silicon processors is to make them kind of modular. So, we can expect the high-end professional hardware to get far more powerful processors than the MacBook Air.
My guess is that the fastest M2 will come in an all-new Mac Pro – a computer Apple has been promising for several years.
No – we won’t be getting under-screen TouchID
MacRumors reports, viola Bloomberg, that while Apple has been resting an under-screen TouchID sensor, it won’t be making its way into a new product any time soon.
This is a bit of a shame. I’d like to see an updated iPhone SE, based on the iPhone X form factor with TouchID. But I can’t see Apple adding such an innovative new feature to an entry-level product.
New iPads – less likely
There are plenty of pundits talking up the possibility of the M2 processors coming to the iPad Pro. Tom’s Hardware is amongst those speculating but I’m not so sure.
With Apple recently backtracking on support for Stage Manager on older iPads, I think they might be wary of introducing a significant hardware upgrade just a year after first bringing the M1 to the iPad Pro. I’d expect updated iPads in 2023.
Anthony is the founder of Australian Apple News. He is a long-time Apple user and former editor of Australian Macworld. He has contributed to many technology magazines and newspapers as well as appearing regularly on radio and occasionally on TV.