Apple in 2022: iPhone 14, new MacBook Air, Apple Watch 8 and more - Tom's Guide

2022 promises to be a big year for Apple hardware.

For Apple, 2021 is likely over — at least in terms of new hardware announcements.

While the AirPods Max arrived unexpectedly on December 15 last year, we’re not expecting a similar Hail Mary move this time around, so all eyes are on 2022.

And 2022 could be a massive year for Apple.

Given Apple has released a flagship iPhone every year since 2007, nobody seriously expects the company to take a break in 2022.

The iPhone 14 is almost certainly going to arrive in September, given that’s when almost every other flagship Apple handset has launched.

Said notch will reportedly live on with the regular iPhone 14, which will also apparently get its own super-size 6.7-inch ‘Max’ variant.

The mini — a long-time sales disappointment for Apple — will apparently not be revived for a third year.

The iPhone SE 3 is said to be arriving in the first quarter of 2022 — possibly March — packing the same Apple A15 Bionic chip that makes the iPhone 13 family fly both in benchmarks and day-to-day use?

Confusingly, it could be called the iPhone SE Plus despite packing the same 4.7-inch screen size and iPhone 8-like design as its 2020 predecessor (Home button and all).

While Apple has previously used the word “Plus” to denote larger screens, the rationale here is to promote its 5G credentials — a first for the iPhone SE line.

It’s too early to know for sure what this will entail — the Apple Watch tends to launch alongside flagship iPhones in September — but we have a fascinating early indication that it will involve a whole host of new health sensors. .

At the time, the CEO said he expected the tech to arrive in consumer products in 2022, which is extremely exciting — especially given the long-running rumors that Apple one day hopes to make diabetics’ lives easier with non-invasive blood glucose measurements.

In 2022, it’s highly likely that the big-screen iMac will get a refresh and one leaker with an extremely strong track record — Dylandkt — believes that it’ll be replaced by something branded as the iMac Pro?

Though, as a Bloomberg report notes, a future Apple Silicon chip could have as many as 40 cores — 30 more than the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips and 12 more than the current top-end Mac Pro with its 28-core Intel Xeon W processor.

The first generation of the Apple Mixed Reality headset will apparently offer similar computing power to the M1 chipset in Macs, and could feature dual 4K micro OLED displays

While Ming-Chi Kuo says it will be a standalone product, others say it will require an iPhone or Mac, just as the first-generation Apple Watch did

A report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that the new Apple mixed reality headset will have three killer features: gaming, media consumption and communication

It’s very easy to confuse Apple Glasses — rumored Google Glass style eyewear — with the AR headset mentioned above, not least because there’s much crossover of possible patent applications

But for now, Apple Glasses aren’t expected until at least 2023, and given the current chip shortages, you wouldn’t be surprised if they slipped further into the future