New iPhone – latest updates: All of the developments as we get them on Apple's 2018 phone

A customer touches the screen of the new iPhone X at the Apple Store Union Square on November 3, 2017, in San Francisco, California (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP/Getty Images)

The new iPhone will arrive in just days.

And it will be joined by plenty of other things besides: the latest updates to the Apple Watch and iPad, new accessories and maybe even refreshed laptops might be arriving at the event.

Everything will kick off in just a couple of weeks. But here you can follow along with all the latest updates as news emerges – or catch-up on why there is such a mystery surrounding the latest version of the handset.

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Key Points

• When will the new iPhone come out?
• Mystery surrounds release of new handset
• Dark horse of event could be laptops

[23 August 2018 18:07 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's the latest on the new iPhone – or, rather, why there aren't quite so many of these latest updates as we'd expect. The new iPhones remain mostly a mystery, and we've had a go at discussing why that might be.

[23 August 2018 18:12 · Andrew Griffin]

The iPhone isn't going to be the only thing: there'll be an Apple Watch, probably, and maybe even the long-rumoured but never-arriving AirPower. But the dark horse will be laptops – which could be arriving, according to a rumour this week.

[23 August 2018 18:12 · Andrew Griffin]

When will the release date actually be? Get all that and more in this prediction piece.

[23 August 2018 18:13 · Andrew Griffin]

What won't we see at this event? Probably some glasses and a car. But we might see them at some event in the near future, if this rumour is to be believed.

[23 August 2018 18:14 · Andrew Griffin]

There's been some big rumours about the upcoming phone. But there's been some small and subtle ones, too: like the fact that this phone could actually support two SIMs rather than just the normal one.