Apple Event — April 2021 Summary (1 minute)

4 min readApr 25, 2021

On April 20 2021, Apple finally announced its first event of 2021, and I am so excited about the news! 🥳🥳 I will make it really condense but capture everything you need to know!

TOP 4 Event Items:

1. AirTag (New product!)
2. iMac with M1 chip
3. iPad Pro with M1 chip
4. iOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4

AirTag 🔖

This is a new Apple product that you can tag the 3rd party item with AirTag to super-fast find it with your iPhone!

When you are using “Find My” App to find your AirTag-ed item, it will provide you visual (with the direction & distance), haptic (with short vibration), and audio feedback.

🕸 No need internet connection. It uses Bluetooth to ping it and uses UWB (not bluetooth nor wifi) to track it! The UWB is more energy-efficient and has better location accuracy.
🔊 Built-in Speaker; So you can ping via your iPhone and it will beep.
💧 Water & Dust Resistant
🤫 Privacy! It does not store any location data and the data transmission is encrypted end to end. So no one will know when you use them.
🦄 You can customize it with Letters & Emojis (up to 4 characters)
🔋 Battery — Up to 1 year & replaceable-by-user

⚠️ Restrictions! It only supports iPhone 11 or later and the iPhone should be on iOS14.5 (which will be released really soon)

Now If you would like to purchase it, it is now available at Apple Store under iPhone category:

There are only two price options:

$39 CAD for 1 Pack or
$129 CAD for 4 Packs ($10 cheaper)

iMac with M1 Chip 🖥

For the first time, iMac now has built with M1 Chip which allows to have a very thin design (11.5mm)

💨 M1 Chip with two small fans. The performance will be pretty much same as the MacBook Pro.
8-Core CPU & 7-Core GPU or 8-Core CPU & 8-Core GPU
🖥 The display size is 24–inch from 21.5-inch (intel iMac)
iMac will have the BEST built-in camera (1080p), microphone (noise-cancelling), and speaker (6 speakers) in the Mac line.
🕸 Now the Power Adapter will have the additional plugin: ethernet!

👇 With the configuration, you can get Magic Keyboard with Touch ID

On the back of the iMac, it have 2 Thunderbolts as a default, and you can add 2 more USB-3s with the configuration
🌈 iMac now re-introduce the five legendary colours from iMac G3 in 1998 (blue, purple, green, red, orange) PLUS two more colours: silver and yellow:

iMac with M1 — Seven colours (new yellow & silver)

iPad Pro with M1 Chip 📱

For the first time, iPad now has built with M1 Chip where iPad is used to use the same chips as iPhone (i.e. A Chip)

Thunderbolt USB 4 (40 Gigabits per second for wired connection). Super-charge, Super-fast data transmission, and External display
12MP ultra wide camera
Liquid Retina XDR
It will now support 5G connection

iOS 14.5

#1 Apple Watch iPhone Unlocking

Finally, we can unlock the iPhone via Face ID with Mask On 😷 through Apple Watch ⌚️!! Of course, the Apple watch needs to be on watchOS 7.4 to use the feature.

#2 App Tracking Transparency

With iOS 14.5, all the apps are required to ask for user permission to access our random advertising identifier which is used to track our activities! 🥳

#3 New Emoji Characters

A picture is worth a thousand words, right?!

That is it!

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