**Upcoming Apple Vision Pro Release**

We don't have any information yet on the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, but we can expect some exciting features and upgrades. The Apple Vision Pro is expected to be released in 2024, and I'd love to know more about it. If you're interested in learning more about the latest rumors and speculations surrounding this device, please let me know in a comment below.

**Rumors on iPhone 16 Series**

There are some fresh rumors circulating around the iPhone 16 series, including some big changes coming to the camera systems. According to a leaker on Webo, the iPhone 16 Pro is expected to gain a 48 megapixel ultrawide camera in addition to the 48 megapixel main sensor. This would be the first iPhone ever to have two 48 megapixel cameras, and it's going to have the pixel binning technology that is currently available on the iPhone 15's main camera. The pixel binning feature combines four individual pixels to create an effective resolution of 12 megapixels with a larger pixel size for improved low light performance.

**Pro Raw Photos using the Ultra Wide Camera**

With the upgraded ultrawide camera, we can expect Pro Raw photos using the ultra wide camera to be possible next year. This is going to be a game-changer for iPhone users who want more flexibility and control over their photos. The addition of this feature will also allow for more creative freedom and better low-light performance.

**Tetr Prism Telephoto Lens**

According to Mac Rumors, Apple is going to be adding the tetr prism telephoto lens to both the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models next year. This is a significant upgrade that's going to bring a lot of benefits for iPhone users. The tetr prism lens will get you that 5x optical zoom, which is one of the most sought-after features in high-end smartphones.

**A18 Chip Inside**

A source told Mac Rumors that an early build of iOS 18, code-named Crystal, contains really interesting hardware references in the code. It not only references four unreleased iPhone models with their device identifiers but also indicates that the entire iPhone 16 lineup is going to have the A18 chip inside. This is a significant upgrade over past years where the base model would typically have last year's chip.

**A8 Pro on Pro and Pro Max Models**

However, it looks like the A18 chip will only be available on the 16 and 16 Plus models, while the Pro and Pro Max models will get the A8 Pro. This is a slight deviation from past years where all models would typically have last year's chip.

**Air Tag Story**

I recently came across some crazy Air Tag stories this week, and I just had to share them with you guys. It seems like there are still many people who think it's a good idea to use an Air Tag to track down their ex-spouse during the holidays. This is not only creepy but also potentially illegal. Please do yourself a favor and get your Air Tags now, as they're $80 less than usual on Amazon for a four-pack.

**Air Tag Safety Reminder**

If you haven't gotten your Air Tags yet, please go to Amazon and buy this four-pack. They are the easiest buy of the year, and you'll be glad you did. More than one Air Tag is always a good idea, especially if you have valuable items that you want to protect from theft.

**Conclusion**

That's all for today's episode, guys. I hope you enjoyed it, and please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more future 2024 Apple-related videos. If you do celebrate holidays, Merry Christmas! And if not, I hope you enjoy your time watching me and that my content helps make your holiday better as well. Thanks again for watching, and I'll see you soon!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and welcome back to Apple weekly the final episode of 2023 so happy holidays to everybody out there so in this episode we're going to discuss more about iOS 17.3 along with the confusing iOS 17.21 we're also going to talk about an update on the Apple watch being banned Apple's next generation of carplay iPhone 16 rumors another crazy air tag story and more and as always if you want to stay updated with everything going on in the world of Apple in 24 be sure to subscribe to the channel and also check out the Apple Den newsletter all right so let's start by talking about iOS 17.21 because you might have seen me on Forbes or Yahoo or every other publication that posted about 17.21 showing what I showed on Twitter so we'll get to that in a moment but 17.21 is just such a weird update because like I said in my what's new video if you saw it earlier this week there was really nothing new I mean Apple did not tell us anything that was included in the update you know there was no security patches in the update no publication it came out and said oh look this this and this was introduced in 1.2.1 or like this was fixed in 1.2.1 none of that like we have absolutely still to this day no clue what was included with 17.21 however I found something and this is kind of how I got on all those different Publications because I was looking on Twitter I was looking on X trying to see if anybody found anything new in 17.21 and for some reason I saw you know Japanese speakers posting their screenshots of 17.21 so I went to you know screenshot that and translate what it said is new in their update and what I found was interesting and you see it on your screen right here it says that this update introduces important bug fixes and addresses an issue where the battery May drain quicker under certain conditions now my first thought was okay this might be a bug it might be an issue in Translation but then I went to Apple's site once they put up the release notes for 17.21 on the Japanese version of their website on Apple and it showed the same thing so there was no you know issue with the translation there was no bug on the software update screen none of that it looks like at least those in Japanese speaking uh regions and also it was showing for Chinese as well so Chinese and Japanese it showed the same translation here it showed you know a battery drain fix however in the US and the UK and in every English-speaking country we did not see that and nobody really reported anything being resolved with battery drain so this is weird I mean we still don't have any explanation from Apple I'm sure multiple Publications reached out to Apple for comments but we've not seen anything let me know if you're having better battery life on 17.21 as opposed to 17.2 which was just released the week prior now before we talk about iOS 17.3 a little bit more I do want to also mention iOS 17.2 because this kind of went under the radar but 17.2 patched a very notorious iPhone bug that's related to The Flipper zero this is a p testing tool and it would basically there was a bug with this tool that would force you to reboot your device so basically this flipper zero pin testing tool would flood the iPhone with so many notifications that it would just freeze up and force reboot and this is going around like crazy I even saw this on Tik Tok of all places and it was working on devices up to 17.2 but Apple did patch it with 17.2 and of course 17.21 as well okay so now let's move on to iOS 17 .3 because while iOS 17.2 had like 60 new features and changes I think 17.3 is going to be the most important update for iOS 17 yet and it's mainly because of the stolen device protection feature along with the performance and the battery life which we'll talk about in a moment but I do just want to kind of build on what we've already talked about with the stolen device protection because Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal who is pretty much fully responsible for Apple even introducing this feature into the iPhone she actually sat down with a man who basically was one of these thieves who was stealing iPhones and draining People's Bank and crypto accounts with the loophole that stolen device protection fixes and this video which I'll leave link down in the description below is very interesting because she talks with this man who is again serving a prison sentence for stealing over $300,000 from unsuspecting victims who had basically just you know this guy would be friend this is the classic story that we've heard ever since Joanna Stern and the Wall Street Journal really reported on this they would kind of be friend people especially College age people in a bar and you know they'd be drunk obviously so they wouldn't really be wouldn't have their guard up as much and these people would go in there and they would ask them to put in their passcode or they would you know ask them what their passcode would would be and sometimes they would tell them and these thieves would basically understand how to change the Apple ID with that passcode the loophole we've been talking about this whole time they would understand and know how to do that within seconds they were really quick with it as this guy explains in the video um and basically they would would be able to just take control of their phone they would be able to get into their passwords their their banking applications their crypto apps and everything like that and then just leave they they'd steal the phone after already having all that information so you know obviously all these people were pretty unsuspecting and they wouldn't really know until the next day because they were so drunk but it's incredible how much money these people have made and it was not just a one person operation this guy tells in the story how he kind of just reported it back to somebody else and they' probably stolen Millions maybe even tens of millions of dollars and in terms of iPhones actual iPhones themselves along with the you know drainage of the bank accounts and crypto accounts as well so I think that really that video really just highlighted how important the that loophole was for thieves and how now how important the stolen device protection feature is for consumers like you and I and why we need to turn this on right away but aside from the stolen device protection feature we didn't really have anything major that's new in 17.3 now we might be seeing the uh airplan and hotel rooms feature that we heard about for a while while this was supposed to come out in 2023 but Apple has delayed it to 2024 and so this might be included in 17.3 by the time the final version rolls out but as of in beta 1 we do not have really anything else besides the stolen device protection and a couple of other minor changes now the other reason I mentioned that 17.3 is an important update is because of the performance and battery life I have been blown away with how good the performance and battery life is on a beta 1 it's it's very rare to see the stability and battery life like we have here on 17.3 beta 1 for a first beta it doesn't happen very often so you can see I did just run a geekbench test the CPU test right before this video scored a 2963 on the single core and a 7306 on the multicore that is my highest single core score in well over a month and we're talking about comparing to final versions of you know iOS software so that has been very impressive I've really had no issues in terms of performance you know no bugs or anything like that so very happy with performance and then in terms of battery life I am running this on my main device so I'm going to take some screenshots of the last 24 hours which you can see you can actually see it's I haven't charged the phone at all since I woke up at around it looks like 10:00 or so and it's now 7 o' so I'm still sitting at 39% which I think is pretty good this will easily get me through the full day and I've actually been using it a little bit more than I should have so good there and then the last 10 days you can see here as well the activity you know pretty high in terms of what I should be using using but you can see it's actually better than what I scored on 17.2 in terms of just these graphs on the 10day chart and then I do also want to talk about what to expect next from Apple so you know typically we would say that Apple's not going to release any more software until 2024 right I mean really Apple was not supposed to release anything this past week but 17.21 was a surprise however 2023 is different for multiple reasons so I think that we could actually see new software next week the week of Christmas yes Apple I don't believe has ever done this before but also Apple has never had to stop sales of their latest product which is the Apple Watch series 9 and Apple watch Ultra 2 those are both currently banned we'll talk more later in this video about why that is but Apple has said that they're going to try to release a software update to kind of get the Apple watch unbanned so we could see that as early as next week the week of December 25th now this is going to be a watchos only update this is not going to be an iOS update most likely so it could be a watchos update that we see next week however in terms of iOS iPad OS and all the other main software updates we're probably not going to see anything even on the week of January 1st I would imagine that apple is going to wait until the week of January 8th to release anything that is typical as what Apple has done in the past they usually wait until the week after the new year so the week of January 8th is when we should see iOS 17.3 beta 2 most likely on the 9th but of course it could come any day that week and then in terms of the final release I would expect that to come most likely on the week of January 22nd it could even come on the week of January 15th it really just depends on what Apple releases we don't typically have more than two or three betas 47.3 so don't expect it to go all the way into February like if it releases in February it's probably going to be that first week of February the first full week of February all right so now let's move on to the latest Apple news and let's elabor at a little bit more on that Apple watch band that we were just talking about because this is pretty important news so basically this all started on Monday this past Monday when Apple abruptly announced that they would soon halt the sales of their Apple Watch series 9 and Apple watch Ultra 2 and if you go to apple.com it now says currently unavailable for the series 9 and the ultra 2 and also they're going to have to do this from physical stores on December 24th so Apple's not going to be able to sell these products in their physical retail stores come December 24th and the reason this is even happening is actually something that we saw in October and a lot of people didn't really take it serious if you remember the headlines you know there was headlines in October that said Apple watch could be banned and everybody was like yeah right that's never going to happen it's apple right and so this was you know in response to an import ban that was handed down by the Trade Commission the International Trade Commission in October and because they ruled that Apple infringed on patents for pulse made by medical device company mimo and there's really only one way out of this and that is if the Biden Administration basically vetos this ban from the ITC so they have until December 25th to do this but if nothing happens expect Apple to file an appeal the very next day we don't know if it's a a guarantee that Apple's going to be able to sell these again right away but they are going to appeal that as soon as they can and like I mentioned apple is working on a software update to fix this however mimo came out and said that software is not going to fix this this is a hardware Ban this is a you know infringment on the hardware that was used in the new Apple watches not the software so if Apple were to fix this they would basically just have to you know completely disable the blood oxygen sensor which would kind of defeat the purpose of these newer Apple watches so this is going to be very interesting to follow especially when it comes to how long this is going to last because we still don't know how long the Apple Watch series 9 and Ultra 2 are going to be banned for so if you want to buy my Apple watch Ultra 2 the starting bid is $20,000 so there you go you can get one right now and you don't have to buy it through Apple because you can't buy it through Apple it's a rare commodity come on bidding Starts Now and Then moving on to the next Generation carplay which we saw this announced a couple of years ago and apple said that in 2023 late 2023 we would see the Next Generation carplay unveiled and kind of just announced with what vehicles are going to be capable of running the software and apple literally waited until the very last minute very very late 2023 to announce it and and it looks like Aston Martin and Porsche are going to be the first vehicles to support Apple's nextg carplay and these of course are going to be on 2024 models and this looks absolutely sick I mean you're going to be able to see driving specific data like the you know speedometer the tire pressure like all that stuff you're going to be able to see in a carplay like interface I mean this looks awesome so as the Martin did say that Apple's nextg setup is going to be compatible with its lat infotainment system that launches in 2024 in vehicles like the db12 however Porsche did not reveal a release date or a model list yet and you can expect to see this in other mies and models in 2024 as well however I would imagine this is not going to be something super standard on just like entry-level cars I feel like this is only going to be on more luxury cars like mid to high range luxury cars are going to be most likely the ones that get this next gen carplay okay so let's talk about the biggest product release of of 2024 and that is the Apple Vision Pro and now Mark Gman says that we might actually be getting this headset as soon as February he said the Apple Vision Pro manufacturing has reached an advanced stage with a launch planned by February the roll out will be Apple's most complex product launch yet requiring entirely new sales strategies and Equipment the headset has customized components that need to be assembled and boxed up at the point of sale it's also a delicate process if the vision Pro isn't fitted to a user's head correctly the device won't show content properly and may feel extra heavy and then he goes on to mention that we should not expect another Apple event for the Vision Pro it's likely just going to launch on the website with additional details so what I found really interesting about this report is that it seem and we kind of heard this already but it seems like the the whole process of actually buying and walking out of the store with an apple Vision Pro is not going to be easy it's not going to be like any other Apple product that we could just go in there I got this for pickup okay I'm out like that's not going to happen with the Vision Pro like he mentions there are customized components that are you know you have to probably measure somebody's head to get a very precise measurement and then adjust it and it has to be done in the retail store so it'll be really interesting to see how this goes again again very interested to see how the retail store looks that day you know they're going to have decorations and vision proos going to be advertised everywhere for a while when the Apple Vision Pro comes out like the retail stores are going to be decked out with Vision Pro gear now again this is not going to be a consumer Centric device like your average consumer is not going to you know want this they're not going to spend $3,500 on this but I think apple is still going to advertise the heck out of the Vision Pro because it is something so you know I don't want to say revolutionary but it seems like it's going to be something revolutionary and please let me know because I'm really trying to gauge your guys' interest will you be getting the Apple Vision Pro you know in 2024 even in the future let's just say 2024 for now will you spend $3,500 on the Apple Vision Pro in 2024 please let me know in a comment down below because I do want to make videos on that but I understand that probably most of my audience is not going to be buying that thing now we also have some fresh rumors on the iPhone 16 series including some big changes coming to the camera systems according to a leaker on webo the iPhone 16 Pro is expected to gain a 48 megapixel ultrawide camera in addition to the 48 megapixel main sensor so this is going to be the first iPhone ever to have two 48 megapixel cameras meanwhile the telephoto is expected to stay at 12 maps and this upgraded ultrawide camera is going to have the pixel binning technology the pixel Bing feature that is currently on the iPhone 15's main camera this Tech is basically just going to combine four individual pixels to create an effective resolution of 12 megapixels with a larger pixel size for improved low light performance so finally 48 megap Pro Raw photos using the ultra wide camera will be possible next year with the iPhone 16 Pro also according to Mac Rumors apple is going to be adding the tetr prism telephoto lens to both the iPhone 16 pro and pro Max models next year so this is like the third or fourth report that we've heard about this so I think this is extremely likely to happen this is no longer going to be a pro Max exclusive because with the 15 pro and pro Max only the pro Max had that tetr prism lens which is what gets you that 5x optical zoom and speaking of the iPhone 16 series A source told Mac rumors that an early build iOS 18 which is code named Crystal contains really interesting Hardware references in the code so it not only references four unreleased iPhone models with their device identifiers and as you can see there is no Ultra model that's expected only the pro and pro Max but anyway in addition to that the iOS 18 code also indicates that the entire iPhone 16 lineup is going to have the a18 chip inside so unlike the past few years where the base model has like last year Year's chip it looks like for the iPhone 16 series they're all going to have a18 but what I expect to see happening is going to be a18 on the 16 and 16 plus and then A8 Pro on the pro and pro Max models and then finally another crazy air tag story and this week's a little bit different because I I I searched for air tag stories this week and literally I saw three of like the same thing so I don't know what it is with holidays but it seems like ex lovers go crazy around holidays I don't know if it's the Nostalgia and you are just you know getting sad and in your feelings about your ex-lover but like man I saw at least three stories just this week about an ex spouse stalking the other one with an air tag some of them got caught and charged and one of them never even got caught and they're now looking for that suspect so uh it's wild like if you haven't gotten your air tags yet right now they are $80 less than $80 on Amazon for a four pack that is the easiest buy of the year if you do not already have more than one air tag please go to Amazon and buy this four pack for $80 trust me you need more than one you know for your luggage your car like any any valuable thing you have you're going to wish you had more than one and these things you can go back and look at my catalog here for the past two years you know there's so many crazy air tag stories out there where the air tags save a person you know they save their thousands of dollars worth of whatever they invested in that got stolen they were able to recover it so do yourself a favor and go buy those and also do yourself a favor and please don't stock your ex just because you're sad it's the holidays that didn't make sense let me just say don't stalk anybody there we go but anyways guys hope you enjoyed this episode if you did I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future 2024 Apple related videos and once again Merry Christmas if you celebrate happy holidays if you do not I hope you enjoy time with your family if you don't have family I hope you enjoy your time watching me hopefully I can help you feel a little bit better and you know bring you some Apple news and hopefully that's making your Christmas or your holidays better as well but anyways guys thanks again for watching if you want to get access to any of my wallpapers or anything like that all those links are always down in the description below but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soonwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and welcome back to Apple weekly the final episode of 2023 so happy holidays to everybody out there so in this episode we're going to discuss more about iOS 17.3 along with the confusing iOS 17.21 we're also going to talk about an update on the Apple watch being banned Apple's next generation of carplay iPhone 16 rumors another crazy air tag story and more and as always if you want to stay updated with everything going on in the world of Apple in 24 be sure to subscribe to the channel and also check out the Apple Den newsletter all right so let's start by talking about iOS 17.21 because you might have seen me on Forbes or Yahoo or every other publication that posted about 17.21 showing what I showed on Twitter so we'll get to that in a moment but 17.21 is just such a weird update because like I said in my what's new video if you saw it earlier this week there was really nothing new I mean Apple did not tell us anything that was included in the update you know there was no security patches in the update no publication it came out and said oh look this this and this was introduced in 1.2.1 or like this was fixed in 1.2.1 none of that like we have absolutely still to this day no clue what was included with 17.21 however I found something and this is kind of how I got on all those different Publications because I was looking on Twitter I was looking on X trying to see if anybody found anything new in 17.21 and for some reason I saw you know Japanese speakers posting their screenshots of 17.21 so I went to you know screenshot that and translate what it said is new in their update and what I found was interesting and you see it on your screen right here it says that this update introduces important bug fixes and addresses an issue where the battery May drain quicker under certain conditions now my first thought was okay this might be a bug it might be an issue in Translation but then I went to Apple's site once they put up the release notes for 17.21 on the Japanese version of their website on Apple and it showed the same thing so there was no you know issue with the translation there was no bug on the software update screen none of that it looks like at least those in Japanese speaking uh regions and also it was showing for Chinese as well so Chinese and Japanese it showed the same translation here it showed you know a battery drain fix however in the US and the UK and in every English-speaking country we did not see that and nobody really reported anything being resolved with battery drain so this is weird I mean we still don't have any explanation from Apple I'm sure multiple Publications reached out to Apple for comments but we've not seen anything let me know if you're having better battery life on 17.21 as opposed to 17.2 which was just released the week prior now before we talk about iOS 17.3 a little bit more I do want to also mention iOS 17.2 because this kind of went under the radar but 17.2 patched a very notorious iPhone bug that's related to The Flipper zero this is a p testing tool and it would basically there was a bug with this tool that would force you to reboot your device so basically this flipper zero pin testing tool would flood the iPhone with so many notifications that it would just freeze up and force reboot and this is going around like crazy I even saw this on Tik Tok of all places and it was working on devices up to 17.2 but Apple did patch it with 17.2 and of course 17.21 as well okay so now let's move on to iOS 17 .3 because while iOS 17.2 had like 60 new features and changes I think 17.3 is going to be the most important update for iOS 17 yet and it's mainly because of the stolen device protection feature along with the performance and the battery life which we'll talk about in a moment but I do just want to kind of build on what we've already talked about with the stolen device protection because Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal who is pretty much fully responsible for Apple even introducing this feature into the iPhone she actually sat down with a man who basically was one of these thieves who was stealing iPhones and draining People's Bank and crypto accounts with the loophole that stolen device protection fixes and this video which I'll leave link down in the description below is very interesting because she talks with this man who is again serving a prison sentence for stealing over $300,000 from unsuspecting victims who had basically just you know this guy would be friend this is the classic story that we've heard ever since Joanna Stern and the Wall Street Journal really reported on this they would kind of be friend people especially College age people in a bar and you know they'd be drunk obviously so they wouldn't really be wouldn't have their guard up as much and these people would go in there and they would ask them to put in their passcode or they would you know ask them what their passcode would would be and sometimes they would tell them and these thieves would basically understand how to change the Apple ID with that passcode the loophole we've been talking about this whole time they would understand and know how to do that within seconds they were really quick with it as this guy explains in the video um and basically they would would be able to just take control of their phone they would be able to get into their passwords their their banking applications their crypto apps and everything like that and then just leave they they'd steal the phone after already having all that information so you know obviously all these people were pretty unsuspecting and they wouldn't really know until the next day because they were so drunk but it's incredible how much money these people have made and it was not just a one person operation this guy tells in the story how he kind of just reported it back to somebody else and they' probably stolen Millions maybe even tens of millions of dollars and in terms of iPhones actual iPhones themselves along with the you know drainage of the bank accounts and crypto accounts as well so I think that really that video really just highlighted how important the that loophole was for thieves and how now how important the stolen device protection feature is for consumers like you and I and why we need to turn this on right away but aside from the stolen device protection feature we didn't really have anything major that's new in 17.3 now we might be seeing the uh airplan and hotel rooms feature that we heard about for a while while this was supposed to come out in 2023 but Apple has delayed it to 2024 and so this might be included in 17.3 by the time the final version rolls out but as of in beta 1 we do not have really anything else besides the stolen device protection and a couple of other minor changes now the other reason I mentioned that 17.3 is an important update is because of the performance and battery life I have been blown away with how good the performance and battery life is on a beta 1 it's it's very rare to see the stability and battery life like we have here on 17.3 beta 1 for a first beta it doesn't happen very often so you can see I did just run a geekbench test the CPU test right before this video scored a 2963 on the single core and a 7306 on the multicore that is my highest single core score in well over a month and we're talking about comparing to final versions of you know iOS software so that has been very impressive I've really had no issues in terms of performance you know no bugs or anything like that so very happy with performance and then in terms of battery life I am running this on my main device so I'm going to take some screenshots of the last 24 hours which you can see you can actually see it's I haven't charged the phone at all since I woke up at around it looks like 10:00 or so and it's now 7 o' so I'm still sitting at 39% which I think is pretty good this will easily get me through the full day and I've actually been using it a little bit more than I should have so good there and then the last 10 days you can see here as well the activity you know pretty high in terms of what I should be using using but you can see it's actually better than what I scored on 17.2 in terms of just these graphs on the 10day chart and then I do also want to talk about what to expect next from Apple so you know typically we would say that Apple's not going to release any more software until 2024 right I mean really Apple was not supposed to release anything this past week but 17.21 was a surprise however 2023 is different for multiple reasons so I think that we could actually see new software next week the week of Christmas yes Apple I don't believe has ever done this before but also Apple has never had to stop sales of their latest product which is the Apple Watch series 9 and Apple watch Ultra 2 those are both currently banned we'll talk more later in this video about why that is but Apple has said that they're going to try to release a software update to kind of get the Apple watch unbanned so we could see that as early as next week the week of December 25th now this is going to be a watchos only update this is not going to be an iOS update most likely so it could be a watchos update that we see next week however in terms of iOS iPad OS and all the other main software updates we're probably not going to see anything even on the week of January 1st I would imagine that apple is going to wait until the week of January 8th to release anything that is typical as what Apple has done in the past they usually wait until the week after the new year so the week of January 8th is when we should see iOS 17.3 beta 2 most likely on the 9th but of course it could come any day that week and then in terms of the final release I would expect that to come most likely on the week of January 22nd it could even come on the week of January 15th it really just depends on what Apple releases we don't typically have more than two or three betas 47.3 so don't expect it to go all the way into February like if it releases in February it's probably going to be that first week of February the first full week of February all right so now let's move on to the latest Apple news and let's elabor at a little bit more on that Apple watch band that we were just talking about because this is pretty important news so basically this all started on Monday this past Monday when Apple abruptly announced that they would soon halt the sales of their Apple Watch series 9 and Apple watch Ultra 2 and if you go to apple.com it now says currently unavailable for the series 9 and the ultra 2 and also they're going to have to do this from physical stores on December 24th so Apple's not going to be able to sell these products in their physical retail stores come December 24th and the reason this is even happening is actually something that we saw in October and a lot of people didn't really take it serious if you remember the headlines you know there was headlines in October that said Apple watch could be banned and everybody was like yeah right that's never going to happen it's apple right and so this was you know in response to an import ban that was handed down by the Trade Commission the International Trade Commission in October and because they ruled that Apple infringed on patents for pulse made by medical device company mimo and there's really only one way out of this and that is if the Biden Administration basically vetos this ban from the ITC so they have until December 25th to do this but if nothing happens expect Apple to file an appeal the very next day we don't know if it's a a guarantee that Apple's going to be able to sell these again right away but they are going to appeal that as soon as they can and like I mentioned apple is working on a software update to fix this however mimo came out and said that software is not going to fix this this is a hardware Ban this is a you know infringment on the hardware that was used in the new Apple watches not the software so if Apple were to fix this they would basically just have to you know completely disable the blood oxygen sensor which would kind of defeat the purpose of these newer Apple watches so this is going to be very interesting to follow especially when it comes to how long this is going to last because we still don't know how long the Apple Watch series 9 and Ultra 2 are going to be banned for so if you want to buy my Apple watch Ultra 2 the starting bid is $20,000 so there you go you can get one right now and you don't have to buy it through Apple because you can't buy it through Apple it's a rare commodity come on bidding Starts Now and Then moving on to the next Generation carplay which we saw this announced a couple of years ago and apple said that in 2023 late 2023 we would see the Next Generation carplay unveiled and kind of just announced with what vehicles are going to be capable of running the software and apple literally waited until the very last minute very very late 2023 to announce it and and it looks like Aston Martin and Porsche are going to be the first vehicles to support Apple's nextg carplay and these of course are going to be on 2024 models and this looks absolutely sick I mean you're going to be able to see driving specific data like the you know speedometer the tire pressure like all that stuff you're going to be able to see in a carplay like interface I mean this looks awesome so as the Martin did say that Apple's nextg setup is going to be compatible with its lat infotainment system that launches in 2024 in vehicles like the db12 however Porsche did not reveal a release date or a model list yet and you can expect to see this in other mies and models in 2024 as well however I would imagine this is not going to be something super standard on just like entry-level cars I feel like this is only going to be on more luxury cars like mid to high range luxury cars are going to be most likely the ones that get this next gen carplay okay so let's talk about the biggest product release of of 2024 and that is the Apple Vision Pro and now Mark Gman says that we might actually be getting this headset as soon as February he said the Apple Vision Pro manufacturing has reached an advanced stage with a launch planned by February the roll out will be Apple's most complex product launch yet requiring entirely new sales strategies and Equipment the headset has customized components that need to be assembled and boxed up at the point of sale it's also a delicate process if the vision Pro isn't fitted to a user's head correctly the device won't show content properly and may feel extra heavy and then he goes on to mention that we should not expect another Apple event for the Vision Pro it's likely just going to launch on the website with additional details so what I found really interesting about this report is that it seem and we kind of heard this already but it seems like the the whole process of actually buying and walking out of the store with an apple Vision Pro is not going to be easy it's not going to be like any other Apple product that we could just go in there I got this for pickup okay I'm out like that's not going to happen with the Vision Pro like he mentions there are customized components that are you know you have to probably measure somebody's head to get a very precise measurement and then adjust it and it has to be done in the retail store so it'll be really interesting to see how this goes again again very interested to see how the retail store looks that day you know they're going to have decorations and vision proos going to be advertised everywhere for a while when the Apple Vision Pro comes out like the retail stores are going to be decked out with Vision Pro gear now again this is not going to be a consumer Centric device like your average consumer is not going to you know want this they're not going to spend $3,500 on this but I think apple is still going to advertise the heck out of the Vision Pro because it is something so you know I don't want to say revolutionary but it seems like it's going to be something revolutionary and please let me know because I'm really trying to gauge your guys' interest will you be getting the Apple Vision Pro you know in 2024 even in the future let's just say 2024 for now will you spend $3,500 on the Apple Vision Pro in 2024 please let me know in a comment down below because I do want to make videos on that but I understand that probably most of my audience is not going to be buying that thing now we also have some fresh rumors on the iPhone 16 series including some big changes coming to the camera systems according to a leaker on webo the iPhone 16 Pro is expected to gain a 48 megapixel ultrawide camera in addition to the 48 megapixel main sensor so this is going to be the first iPhone ever to have two 48 megapixel cameras meanwhile the telephoto is expected to stay at 12 maps and this upgraded ultrawide camera is going to have the pixel binning technology the pixel Bing feature that is currently on the iPhone 15's main camera this Tech is basically just going to combine four individual pixels to create an effective resolution of 12 megapixels with a larger pixel size for improved low light performance so finally 48 megap Pro Raw photos using the ultra wide camera will be possible next year with the iPhone 16 Pro also according to Mac Rumors apple is going to be adding the tetr prism telephoto lens to both the iPhone 16 pro and pro Max models next year so this is like the third or fourth report that we've heard about this so I think this is extremely likely to happen this is no longer going to be a pro Max exclusive because with the 15 pro and pro Max only the pro Max had that tetr prism lens which is what gets you that 5x optical zoom and speaking of the iPhone 16 series A source told Mac rumors that an early build iOS 18 which is code named Crystal contains really interesting Hardware references in the code so it not only references four unreleased iPhone models with their device identifiers and as you can see there is no Ultra model that's expected only the pro and pro Max but anyway in addition to that the iOS 18 code also indicates that the entire iPhone 16 lineup is going to have the a18 chip inside so unlike the past few years where the base model has like last year Year's chip it looks like for the iPhone 16 series they're all going to have a18 but what I expect to see happening is going to be a18 on the 16 and 16 plus and then A8 Pro on the pro and pro Max models and then finally another crazy air tag story and this week's a little bit different because I I I searched for air tag stories this week and literally I saw three of like the same thing so I don't know what it is with holidays but it seems like ex lovers go crazy around holidays I don't know if it's the Nostalgia and you are just you know getting sad and in your feelings about your ex-lover but like man I saw at least three stories just this week about an ex spouse stalking the other one with an air tag some of them got caught and charged and one of them never even got caught and they're now looking for that suspect so uh it's wild like if you haven't gotten your air tags yet right now they are $80 less than $80 on Amazon for a four pack that is the easiest buy of the year if you do not already have more than one air tag please go to Amazon and buy this four pack for $80 trust me you need more than one you know for your luggage your car like any any valuable thing you have you're going to wish you had more than one and these things you can go back and look at my catalog here for the past two years you know there's so many crazy air tag stories out there where the air tags save a person you know they save their thousands of dollars worth of whatever they invested in that got stolen they were able to recover it so do yourself a favor and go buy those and also do yourself a favor and please don't stock your ex just because you're sad it's the holidays that didn't make sense let me just say don't stalk anybody there we go but anyways guys hope you enjoyed this episode if you did I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future 2024 Apple related videos and once again Merry Christmas if you celebrate happy holidays if you do not I hope you enjoy time with your family if you don't have family I hope you enjoy your time watching me hopefully I can help you feel a little bit better and you know bring you some Apple news and hopefully that's making your Christmas or your holidays better as well but anyways guys thanks again for watching if you want to get access to any of my wallpapers or anything like that all those links are always down in the description below but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon\n"