How to Watch Tomorrow’s Apple ‘Wonderlust’ Event

We’re less than 24 hours away from Apple’s big iPhone 15 unveiling, and as usual, the company will be streaming its event online for the public and members of the press who are unable to attend in person.

There was a time when Apple’s in-person events were bigger spectacles. In the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple invited hundreds to attend the Steve Jobs Theatre, where CEO Tim Cook and other company executives would take the stage live to show off Apple’s latest product releases.

Sadly, the lockdowns and requirements for social distancing that came from the global health pandemic changed all that, but it wasn’t entirely for the worse. Instead, Apple became accustomed to holding virtual events, pre-recorded in a variety of different settings where company executives and other leaders could do an even more engaging job of talking about the latest new products and the technologies behind them.

These virtual events not only made for a much more visually exciting presentation but also allowed Apple to involve even more of its team members, bringing the folks behind the technology into the spotlight in a way that we rarely saw before.

The switch to virtual events also means that those who tune in to the live stream see precisely the same thing as those who are fortunate enough to be there in person; those folks are watching the same prerecorded event everyone else is — just on a bigger screen.

As has become the norm, Apple’s event will kick off tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and the company is giving us an assortment of ways to tune in to watch it as it happens.

Apple TV App

If you’re watching from an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV, the best way to watch is through Apple’s own TV app. While Apple once had a dedicated Apple Events app, it thankfully folded this into the TV app just in time for its first virtual event, the June Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2020.

What’s great about this is that you don’t need to download a special app or do any real searching to find the live stream of an Apple event. The TV app comes preinstalled on every iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and even Mac, and all you need to do is open it and look for the “Apple Event” section, which should appear on your Watch Now screen right below Up Next.

If you’ve installed Apple’s TV app on your smart TV, game console, or other streaming device, you can also find the Apple Events channel there and watch it in the same way.

Apple Events Site

If YouTube isn’t your thing, Apple also live streams its event directly from its own Apple Events website, where it can be viewed using Safari on an iPhone or iPad or any modern browser from a Mac or PC, including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.

To watch the event this way, just hit up the Apple Events website at the appropriate time, or visit it now and click the Add to your calendar link to automatically create a calendar appointment for it.

Although Apple almost never discloses what it plans to announce during its big events, it’s usually pretty easy to guess what will happen during its fall events, at least in broad strokes.

Apple’s September events are (almost) always about the iPhone and Apple Watch, which this year means the iPhone 15 lineup is a given, and most likely an Apple Watch Series 9 and a new second-generation Apple Watch Ultra if all the recent rumors are true.

Similarly, we’re sure to get release dates for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17. Don’t hold your breath on hearing a final date for macOS Sonoma, though, as that typically comes in October. There’s a chance Apple will say something about that, but it may be too early for a specific release date.

There’s only been one year when Apple held a September event and didn’t announce new iPhones, and that was in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. That time around, though, Apple had already told everyone that the iPhones would be delayed until October, but it still surprised us with a September event to get the new Apple Watch lineup out before the end of its fiscal quarter.

Occasionally, September events have held other surprises, like new AirPods or iPads. Rumor has it that Apple will repackage the AirPods Pro 2 with a new USB-C case, but whether or not we see AirPods 4 is a bigger mystery. Until recently, it sounded like those were right around the corner — we’re due for an update, and the USB-C changeover would be an ideal time — but eleventh-hour reports have suggested Apple doesn’t plan to refresh its other AirPods with USB-C until early next year.

Apple supposedly has some new iPads on deck, but the company has flip-flopped on introducing iPads in September or October, and the current scuttlebutt says the sixth-generation iPad Air is on deck for next month. It remains to be seen whether Apple will pre-announce that tomorrow or wait for October.

Ultimately, expect tomorrow’s event to be all about the iPhone 15 lineup and Apple Watch, as usual. We also imagine Apple will have a lot to say about its transition to USB-C — and it may even highlight a few of the accessories that are getting the USB-C treatment, such as a new MagSafe Battery Pack and MagSafe Duo. Whether that will be the final nail in the coffin of the Lightning port remains to be seen, but it will be the beginning of the end. By this time next year, there won’t likely be a single device or accessory in Apple’s current lineup that still sports its decade-old proprietary Lightning port.