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AirPods 4, Apple Watch Series 10 and iPhone 16

Apple announced three products on 20 September 2024: AirPods 4, Apple Watch Series 10 and iPhone 16. The day spanned AirPods, Apple Watch and iPhone.

It was the 6th of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 2024, 11 days after the previous one, 9 September 2024.

AirPods 4 product photograph

SimplyPops · CC0

What Apple announced

AirPods 4

AirPods · Headphones · in production

AirPods are wireless Bluetooth earbuds designed by Apple. They were first announced on September 7, 2016, alongside the iPhone 7, and the 2016 MacBook Pro. Within two years, they became Apple's most popular accessory. AirPods are Apple's entry-level wireless headphones, sold alongside the AirPods Pro and AirPods Max.

In addition to playing audio, the AirPods contain a microphone that filters out background noise as well as built-in accelerometers and optical sensors capable of detecting taps and pinches (e.g. double-tap or pinch to pause audio) and placement within the ear, which enables automatic pausing of audio when they are taken out of the ear.

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Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch · Apple Watch · discontinued 9 September 2025

The Apple Watch is a line of smartwatches developed and marketed by Apple. It has fitness tracking, health-oriented capabilities, and wireless telecommunication, integrating with watchOS and other Apple products and services. The first Apple Watch was released in April 2015, and quickly became the world's best-selling wearable device. 4.2 million were sold in the second quarter of fiscal 2015, and more than 115 million people were estimated to use an Apple Watch as of December 2022. Apple has introduced a new generation of the Apple Watch with improved internal components each September – each labeled by Apple as a 'Series', with certain exceptions.

Each Series has been initially sold in multiple variants defined by the watch casing's material, color, and size (except for the budget watches Series 1 and SE, available only in aluminum, and the Ultra, available only in 49 mm titanium), and beginning with the Series 3 and Series 11, by the option in the aluminum variants for LTE and 5G cellular connectivity, respectively, which comes standard with the other materials. The band included with the watch can be selected from multiple options from Apple, and watch variants in aluminum co-branded with Nike and in stainless steel co-branded with Hermès are also offered, which include exclusive bands and colors. Any user may use digital watch faces carrying those companies' branding.

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iPhone 16

iPhone · iPhone · in production

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Also in 2024

Sources

  1. AirPods 4 · Wikipedia
  2. Apple Watch Series 10 · Wikipedia
  3. iPhone 16 · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.