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TechTabletsApple Spring Event 2022: what to expect, including iPad Air, iMac Pro and iPhone SE 3What’s Tim cooking up for Apple’s Spring Event? Here’s when we expect it to be, and what we’re likely to see, including the new iMac Pro and iPad Air launchesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
What’s Tim cooking up for Apple’s Spring Event? Here’s when we expect it to be, and what we’re likely to see, including the new iMac Pro and iPad Air launches
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(Image credit: Apple)
(Image credit: Apple)
At the start of the year, we’re anticipating two things: anAppleSpring Event, and the weather improving. And one of these might actually happen in a reasonably predictable timescale!
We expect that that the Apple Spring Event will happen in March or April 2022, and there are lots of juicy new products you’re like to see there, which we’ll run through in this guide.
Apple’s settled into something of a rhythm with itsApple Eventslately, so this year we’d expect to see theiPhone 14andApple Watch Series 8launch in September and maybe more Macs in the final months of the year. And there’s traditionally been a spring event, and that looks very likely to continue in 2022. Here’s everything you need to know.
The iPhone SE with 5G is very likely to appear at an Apple Spring Event, but it’s said to keep the design shown above.(Image credit: Future)
The iPhone SE with 5G is very likely to appear at an Apple Spring Event, but it’s said to keep the design shown above.
The iPhone SE with 5G is very likely to appear at an Apple Spring Event, but it’s said to keep the design shown above.
(Image credit: Future)
iPhone SE 3 with 5G
We know it’s coming. We just don’t know exactly when, but spring seems like an obvious time to launch it – not least because the growing number of leaks indicate that a release is imminent, and previousiPhoneSE models have come in spring.
The 2022iPhone SE 3 5Gis expected to look much the same as the outgoing iPhone SE, but this time out it gets a 5G radio for much faster mobile internet. It’s likely to get a new processor too, and if those rumours are correct the 2022 model is likely to remain a real contender in thebest cheap phonescategory.
The next Apple Spring Event is strongly rumoured to bring us an update to the iPad Air.(Image credit: Apple)
The next Apple Spring Event is strongly rumoured to bring us an update to the iPad Air.
The next Apple Spring Event is strongly rumoured to bring us an update to the iPad Air.
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New iPad Air (2022)
TheiPad Air (2020)is a wonderful thing – it’s the tablet I bought with my own money and it’s our pick of thebest tabletsfor most people – but it’s feeling a little dated now that the latest6th generation iPad minihas a more up-to-date processor.
We don’t expect it to get the same M-series processor as theiPad Pro 12.9 inchApple isn’t going to let its mid-range tablet leapfrog its flagship – but a more advanced A-series processor is almost guaranteed. The A15 Bionic seems likely: that’s the processor in theiPhone 13.
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A boost to 5G for the Wi-Fi+Cellular model looks likely too, and it will certainly have a new Centre Stage front camera, just like all the other iPads now have.
The bigger iMac is expected at the Apple Spring Event, and it’s the product we’re most excited about.(Image credit: Apple)
The bigger iMac is expected at the Apple Spring Event, and it’s the product we’re most excited about.
The bigger iMac is expected at the Apple Spring Event, and it’s the product we’re most excited about.
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iMac Pro (or iMac 27-inch, 2022)
Here’s another one we know is coming, and we’re praying that Apple doesn’t change its naming conventions to make this the iMac Max. What we’re calling the iMac Pro is set to feature the M1 Pro and M1 Max processor options of the awesome newMacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch (2021), plus a 27-inch display. You might assume it’ll have a more sober colour selection than the fun24-inch iMac (2021), though rumours are mixed on that front.
As for a full-on Mac Pro with Apple processors, we don’t think that’s likely to appear until much later in 2022 – at theearliest.
The Apple Spring Event feels a bit early for AirPods Pro 2, but it’s far from impossible that we’ll see them.(Image credit: Apple)
The Apple Spring Event feels a bit early for AirPods Pro 2, but it’s far from impossible that we’ll see them.
The Apple Spring Event feels a bit early for AirPods Pro 2, but it’s far from impossible that we’ll see them.
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AirPods Pro 2, maybe
We’re hoping that theAirPods Pro 2show up at Apple’s Spring Event. This is definitely way more of an outside best, since reports so far indicate a late 2022 launch, but we’d love it to pay off.
The updates to theAirPods (3rd generation)and rival devices mean theAirPodsPro look a little old-fashioned already because the market is so fast-moving. However, the current AirPods Pro only just got a small update to add MagSafe wireless charging at the end of 2021, so a new version this early seems unlikely. But we can’t wait to hear the rumoured higher-quality wireless streaming.
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