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Are you ready for some iPhones?  Mark Gurman of Bloomberg—who has a pretty good track record for this sort of information—reports that he has been told by a source that Apple will introduce the new iPhone 14 line and the next versions of the Apple Watch on Wednesday, September 7.  Apple historically introduces a new iPhone on a Tuesday or Wednesday during the first or second full week of September.  There was an exception in 2020 due to the pandemic when the introduction was instead in October, but otherwise, the introductions have occurred in the first week for three years (2014, 2015, 2016) and in the second week for six years (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021).  With that record, I would have predicted Tuesday, September 13, 2022, but Gurman's sources tell him otherwise.  What will the next iPhone include?  Apple loves to improve the camera every year so that is probably the safest bet.  There have been some rumors that 2021 was the last year for a "mini" version of an iPhone (other than the SE) and that in 2022 we will instead see an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Max, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max with familiar designs—i.e., no radical new iPhone look this year.  And there are rumors that the prices will be about $100 higher this year given the state of the world.  It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict that a product will become more expensive in 2022, but as for the other rumors, who knows?  Whatever we will see, I'm certainly looking forward to Apple's next announcements.  And now, the news of note from the past week: With new announcements presumably around the corner, this is not a good time to buy an iPhone.  Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal recommends what Apple gadgets you should, and should not, buy right now. If you decide not to upgrade to whatever new iPhones Apple announces next month, Nicole Nguyen of the Wall Street Journal has recommendations for making your current iPhone last even longer. Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica reports that iOS 15.6.1, which came out Wednesday, fixes a vulnerability that may have been actively exploited.  So this is not a drill, please update your iPhone (and Mac, and iPad) for your protection. Chance Miller of 9to5Mac shares another story about an AirTag being used to track stolen luggage.  A traveler's whose luggage was lost when she flew into the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport in Florida notified police that her AirTag tracked the luggage to a neighboring town.  The police then checked the list of airport workers in that town and figured out who the thief was.  Unfortunately, they didn't recover the items stolen out of the AirTag owner's suitcase, but they did recover $15,000 in jewelry that had been reported stolen from another suitcase. If you have sensitive photos on your iPhone, it can be dangerous keeping them in the normal places in the built-in Photos app because they might pop up and be seen by someone else when you least expect it—such as on a widget on the home screen, on an Apple TV, etc.  Tatum Hunger of the Washington Post recommends places to hide sensitive photos on your phone.  He describes one app that I had never heard of before called Private Photo Vault.  It has been around for a decade, and it has all sorts of extra features, like a decoy password (so if someone pressures you to unlock the app, you can show them something other than the real photos) and a break-in report (which logs the GPS location and takes a front-facing photo of the person who uses the wrong password). Speaking of photos on the iPhone, one of the big changes coming in iOS 16 is the new iCloud Shared Photo Library, which makes it easier to share photos with others.  Michael Potuck of 9to5Mac has a good explanation of how it will work.  Unfortunately, there are some limitations in this version—for example, you can only have one shared photo library—but hopefully this feature will improve in the future. How many stand hours do you have on your Apple Watch today?  I doubt it is more than 28.  New Orleans-native and Apple VP Lisa Jackson took a souvenir screenshot of her Apple Watch when she flew home from Australia and picked up a few extra hours in the day. I've seen lots of reports of folks saying that an Apple Watch saved their life, but this one shared some new reasons.  Justin Eastzer of CNet explains that he uses a continuous glucose monitor to measure his blood sugar levels because he has Type 1 diabetes.  It sends a notice to his Apple Watch if something seems off.  A few months ago, his Apple Watch reported that his blood pressure was very low, so he quickly drank some orange juice ... and then passed out.  But fortunately, a few minutes later, his blood sugar level returned to normal because of the juice, and he woke up.  He has lots of other advice for how an Apple Watch can help in an emergency in that post, so check it out. Bradley Chambers of 9to5Mac recommends the Fibaro Multi-Sensor.  It works with HomeKit and can detect motion, temperature, and light.  Thus, it is a versatile device to trigger other actions, and it costs less than $50 ($49.28 on Amazon). Ed Hardy of Cult of Mac reports that Adonit will release the first third-party iPad stylus called the Adonit Neo Pro that can attach to the side of an iPad and charge, just like the second-generation Apple Pencil.  The Neo Pro lacks pressure sensitivity, but unlike the Apple Pencil ($99 on Amazon), the Neo Pro will only cost $44.99.  Note that you can also purchase the Adonit Neo ($39.99 on Amazon) which attaches magnetically to the side of an iPad but which requires a USB-C cord to charge.  (I think that getting a charge from the iPad without needing a cord is easily worth the extra $5.00.) Speaking of a stylus, Joe Rossignol of MacRumors reports that you can now insert and edit text in a Word document on an iPad using the stylus.  In either the Microsoft Word app or the Microsoft Office app, tap on the Draw tab and you will see a number of pen options.  The second one—the one with a letter "A" on the top of the pen—is the Scribble Pen.  Select that tool and then you can just handwrite words on the iPad screen to enter text.  And you can use other gestures too.  For example, if you see a scratch up and down on a word, you will delete it.  Tap a word with your finger to select it and then write another word to replace text.  This all works rather well when you are in Track Changes mode; it is a nice way to edit a document.  Give it a try and see what you think. And finally, Michael Schneider of Variety reports that the show Severance on Apple TV+ was one of the top winners of the Hollywood Critics Association's awards a few days ago.  One of the fans of the show is Stephen Colbert, and he recently filmed a funny video showing the deleted scenes of Severance Season 1 that he was in (ahem):

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