Updated on August 16 with more details for the full calendar of what happens when more analysis.
In less than four weeks, everything will be revealed on the series iPhone 17. Indeed, on Tuesday, September 9, Apple will keep its speech revealing the new equipment, I think. Now a new date has been added to the mixture. You can read the full calendar here, but it is also presented in detail below. Meanwhile, an invitation to the opening appeared – but it is almost certainly false. More about this below.
It seems that the unveiling of this year’s iPhone will take place on Tuesday, September 9.
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It should also be remembered that the iPhone will not be the only product announced when opening. Apple is almost sure to introduce two new Apple watches (Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3), and maybe even a new version of AirPods Pro. Everything will be announced at the same time and will have almost certainly the same release date.
Apple iPhone 17 release date: the new entry into the calendar
Mark Gurman Bloomberg Power on the newsletter is always full of interesting nuggets. In the last issue, he mentioned something that was so far absent from the release date schedules. Among all the speeches on the opening date, the date of Onsale and even the date of the date of the opening date will be unveiled (which are all below, with schedules until the minute), there have been little discussions on the press release for iOS 26.
More than in recent years, the new software has captured the imagination of the public this year. Although iOS 26 is preinstalled on the iPhone 17 series, it will also work on iPhones to the iPhone 11. So, when will it go to a general outing?
Gurman said the new software was “quite fluid” and has since said that the last, sixth beta developer is “ridiculously lively”. So much so that “it is clear that we are quite close to the release of the final public versions,” he said.
I believe that it is possible to epinder the release that “the first half of September”, as Gurman comments.
Last year, iOS 18 was published in general liberation on Monday September 16, exactly a week after the speech and four days before the date of onsale on Friday September 20 of the series iPhone 16.
I believe that the general release of this year for iOS 26 will follow an almost identical calendar and will be available from 10 a.m. the Pacific on Monday September 15 or perhaps Tuesday, September 16.
I prefer Monday, because the excitement in the new software is so high Apple will want it as soon as it can, in addition, it already seems in good shape.
It is the day to score in your newspaper, unless Apple contradicts the release date of iOS 26, that he will probably announce the day of the opening. I will update this message as soon as the details are confirmed.
IPhone 17 release date: the complete calendar
As for the rest of the schedule, here are the most important dates. I will also update this message as soon as anyone is officially confirmed.
The first is the announcement of the opening. This is probably about 8 am on Tuesday, August 26. It is at this point that the invitations are sent by e-mail to selected members of the press and special guests. The exact time is subject to an hour from the room for maneuver, and it is even possible that the invitations will go out the day before. Come back here for more details as soon as he left online.
There has already been a “leak” of the invitation – you can see it here. Nothing is impossible but in my opinion, there is no less doubt: it is a false. The time and date are correct, and the place, but the rest is not convincing. Apple is a stickler for detail, but I’m not sure that he needs 87 sketches of an invitation.
The next large piece of the puzzle will be the main one itself. The weather will be at 10 a.m., because it is always the time chosen by Apple for Cupertino’s disclosure. I believe it will be Tuesday September 9 and the possibility of a change of date now seems quite small.
Here is the rest of the schedule. The opening of pre -orders is the next event and, if the previous schedules apply, will be at 8 a.m. Pacific, Friday September 12.
After that, the first criticisms will appear. There is a little latitude here, but I think it will be either Tuesday, September 16, or Wednesday, September 17. As for the moment, it will probably be at 6 a.m. at 9 a.m., in the east, at 2 p.m. in the United Kingdom, although it could be later.
Note that whatever the date on which iPhone reviews appear, this day will be almost definitely used for Apple Watch reviews. If there is a third marquee product, like New Airpods Pro, the exam date will be Thursday, September 18. Apple acknowledges that sticking at the same time every day is logical.
Finally, the big day itself is the date of the onsale: it seems that it is Friday, September 19 at 7 a.m., wherever you are (so the first photos of people leaving Apple stores gripping iphones will come from Australia and New Zealand, with Europe later and the United States after that.
More analyzes reach us at the quasi-quota. Fortunately, everything always indicates the dates of the annex above. Few comments mention the times, but I am sure that the schedules are correct unless Apple changes compared to its proven process (if it is not broken …).
Ryan Christoffel at 9TO5MAC has a useful analysis that specifies what has happened when in recent years to help specify the release date. “Whatever the exact day of the week when the announcement of the iPhone 17 takes place, pre-orders should start this Friday, with the official release date for the following Friday,” he reports.
