Apple’s Let Loose event has concluded and we’ve got everything you missed right here, including video from the event, coverage of all of the announcements, and a chronological live blog.
Let Loose event: Everything Apple announced
- M4 processor with advanced Neural Engine and 50 percent speed boost over the M2
- iPad Pro with M4 chip and OLED display
- iPad Air with M2 CHIP and new 13-inch model
- Apple Pencil Pro with squeeze gesture
- Slimmer Magic Keyboard with function row
- Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro updates for iPad and Mac
Let Loose event: How to watch
You can re-watch the Apple event at a variety of places online, but the easiest is right here.
Let Loose event: Live updates
When the keynote begins, we will update this story with the new products as they are announced. We’re expecting Apple to announce updates to the iPad Pro and iPad Air, as well as a new Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard.
9:55am ET: The stream is live on Apple.com with artistic graphics that clearly mimic painting and drawing on an iPad.
10am: The event has begun with an animated Apple Park intro and now Tim Cook.
10:01am: This is the biggest day for iPads since its introduction.
10:02am: MacBook Air is the world’s best-selling 13-inch and 15-inch laptop.
10:04am: Today we have some huge updates across the iPad lineup!
10:05am: John Ternus talking about iPad Air on a train for some reason.
10:06am: New iPad Air: 2 sizes, redesigned 11-inch, all-new 13-inch.
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10:07am: Larger iPad Air is “inspired by iPad Pro where more than half of users choose the larger model.”
10:08am: 13-inch model has double the bass
10:09am: New colors: Blue, purple, starlight, space gray
10:10am: Landscape front camera! Starting at 128GB, with new 512GB and 1TB options. 11-inch starts at $599. 13-inch starts at $799. preorder today, available next week.
10:11am: iPad Pro!
10:12am: Ternus: Today we’re going to crush the limits of what you can do on the iPad Pro.
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10:13am: All new impossibly thin, incredibly powerful iPad Pro. 11-inch and 13-inch model. Thinnest Apple product ever. 11-inch is less than a pound. Silver and space black.
10:15am: OLED displays, combines the light from two panels to deliver phenomenal brightness. Ultra Retina XDR 1,000 nits SDR, 1,600 nits peak HDR , deeper blacks, more detail, more responsive to content nano-texture glass option with less glare
10:17am: M4 chip! “Huge leap” in performance.
10:18am: Tim Millet: 2nd-gen 3nm tech. New display engine. CPU: 4 perf cores, 6 eff cores. 10-core GPU, dynamic caching, M4 delivers the same performance as M2 at half the power.
10:20am: Most powerful Neural engine, 38 trillion operations per second, outrageously powerful chip for AI, more powerful than any NPU in any computer
10:22am: Ternus: The new iPad Pro wouldn’t be possible without M4. Up to 4 times faster than M2 model.
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10:23am: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro 2!
10:24am: Final Cut camera lets you use iPhones for multi-angle shooting
10:26am: Logic Pro Sessions uses AI to generate instruments; Stem splitter takes any recording and separates it into 4 tracks
10:28am: iPad Pro uses AI to automatically recognize files and update lighting.
10:29am: Lanscape camera! New charging and pairing system for Apple Pencil.
10:30am: New Magic Keyboard. Thinner and lighter, matching colors. Function row, aluminum palm rest and larger trackpad. Feels just like using a MacBook
10:31am: Entirely new Apple Pencil Pro. New sensor in the barrel to enable new interactions. Squeeze gesture with feedback. Gyroscope lets you roll the pencil. Find My support. Pairs, charges, and stores magnetically on the side of iPad Pro. Developers can create custom interactions. Also works with Air. $129
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10:35am: iPad Pro, double the storage, starts at $999 (11-inch), $1,299 (13-inch).
10:37am: 10th-gen iPad now starts at $349!
10:38am: Tim is wrapping up.
Let Loose event: The latest rumors
Apple Store down: It took longer than usual, but the Apple Store is down ahead of the event.
Apple Pencil Pro: According to code spotted on the Apple Japan website while describing the main logo for the event, Apple is preparing to introduce an Apple Pencil Pro to its ever-growing family of Apple Pencils. It is said to have features like haptic feedback and a new squeeze gesture.
Apple Pencil eraser: An interactive teaser on Apple.com suggests the Apple Pencil could have an eraser feature built into the device.
Short and to the point: The keynote will reportedly last just over a half-hour, making it one of Apple’s shortest Special Events.
Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor, Macworld
Michael Simon has been covering Apple for more than 20 years. He started covering rumors with Spymac when the iPod was the iWalk, and has owned nearly every iPhone Apple has ever made. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, son, and far too many gadgets.