October 15, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional upgraded with the highly effective M5 chip and comfy Twin Knit Band
The newest model improves efficiency, show rendering, battery life, and luxury, whereas providing revolutionary options with visionOS 26 and all-new spatial apps and Apple Immersive content material
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment launched Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with the highly effective M5 chip that delivers a leap ahead in efficiency, improved show rendering, quicker AI-powered workflows, and prolonged battery life. The upgraded Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally comes with the gentle, cushioned Twin Knit Band to assist customers obtain an much more comfy match, and visionOS 26, which unlocks revolutionary spatial experiences, together with widgets, new Personas, an interactive Jupiter Atmosphere, and new Apple Intelligence options with help for added languages.1 There are over 1 million apps and hundreds of video games on the App Retailer, tons of of 3D films on the Apple TV app, and all-new collection and movies in Apple Immersive with a choice of reside NBA video games coming quickly. Imaginative and prescient Professional with M5 and the Twin Knit Band is now accessible to pre-order on apple.com. Clients can guide a demo at Apple Retailer areas right this moment and will probably be accessible nationwide starting Wednesday, October 22.
“With the breakthrough efficiency of M5, the newest Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional delivers quicker efficiency, sharper particulars all through the system, and much more battery life, setting a brand new customary for what’s attainable in spatial computing,” mentioned Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp of Worldwide Product Advertising. “Paired with the comfy Twin Knit Band, revolutionary options in visionOS 26, and all-new Apple Immersive experiences spanning journey, documentary, music, and sports activities, spatial computing is much more succesful, entertaining, and magical with the brand new Imaginative and prescient Professional.”
A Leap Ahead in Efficiency with M5
M5 offers an excellent quicker, smoother, and extra responsive expertise for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers, whereas introducing new alternatives for builders to create extra superior spatial and immersive experiences. Constructed utilizing third-generation 3-nanometer know-how, M5 on Imaginative and prescient Professional options a complicated 10-core CPU that delivers larger multithreaded efficiency, leading to quicker experiences all through the system, together with quicker load occasions for apps and widgets and extra responsive internet looking. The following-generation 10-core GPU structure brings help for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, enabling builders so as to add outstanding element to lighting, shadows, and reflections in video games like Management.
With M5, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional renders 10 % extra pixels on the customized micro-OLED shows in comparison with the earlier era, leading to a sharper picture with crisper textual content and extra detailed visuals. Imaginative and prescient Professional can even improve the refresh fee as much as 120Hz for lowered movement blur when customers take a look at their bodily environment, and an excellent smoother expertise when utilizing Mac Digital Show. Imaginative and prescient Professional with M5 works alongside the purpose-built R1 chip, which processes enter from 12 cameras, 5 sensors, and 6 microphones, and streams new photos to the shows inside 12 milliseconds to create a real-time view of the world. The high-performance battery now helps as much as two and a half hours of common use, and as much as three hours of video playback, all on a single cost.2 And it’s simple to make use of Imaginative and prescient Professional for longer durations at residence, at an workplace, or whereas commuting by connecting the battery to energy.
The 16-core Neural Engine makes AI-powered options run as much as 50 % quicker for system experiences — like capturing a Persona or reworking photographs into spatial scenes — and as much as 2x quicker for third-party apps in comparison with the earlier era.3 With M5, builders equivalent to JigSpace are pioneering new use circumstances for enterprises that mix spatial computing with on-device AI. Utilizing Apple’s Basis Fashions framework, the brand new JigSpace app for Imaginative and prescient Professional faucets into the on-device mannequin on the core of Apple Intelligence to make complicated data simpler to know. Customers can parse by way of complicated datasets with pure language and find out about subtle objects, like wind generators, utilizing interactive 3D fashions.
The New Twin Knit Band Presents a Extra Comfy Match
The Twin Knit Band delivers an much more comfy match for customers. It options higher and decrease straps which are 3D-knitted as a single piece to create a singular dual-rib construction that gives cushioning, breathability, and stretch. The decrease strap options versatile material ribs embedded with tungsten inserts that present a counterweight for added consolation, steadiness, and stability. And the intuitive dual-function Match Dial permits customers to make fine-tuned changes to realize their preferrred match. The brand new Twin Knit Band is available in small, medium, and enormous sizes; is offered to buy individually; and is suitable with the previous-generation Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Clients can simply discover the scale that’s proper for them utilizing the Apple Retailer app for iPhone.
Highly effective Spatial Experiences with visionOS 26
visionOS 26 brings a set of highly effective spatial experiences to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Widgets seamlessly combine right into a person’s house and reappear each time they put Imaginative and prescient Professional on, making it simple to verify the time or climate, play music or podcasts, embellish their house with photographs, or entry ChatGPT. Placing enhancements to Persona make speaking in apps like FaceTime really feel much more pure and acquainted. Spatial scenes, which use generative AI so as to add lifelike depth to photographs, make recollections come to life. Customers can play again 180-degree, 360-degree, and vast field-of-view video from fashionable motion cameras, to allow them to take pleasure in their footage the best way it was meant to be seen, and creators can publish movies in these codecs to apps like Safari and Vimeo. With iPadOS 26.1, accessible later this fall, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional app involves iPad, providing customers one other nice technique to uncover new content material, queue apps and video games to obtain, discover ideas, and shortly entry details about their Imaginative and prescient Professional.
New Apps, Content material, and Video games to Discover
There are over 1 million apps accessible for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, together with greater than 3,000 apps constructed for visionOS. Customers can design their dream residence with HomeByMe and Lowe’s Fashion Studio, outfit their closet with Balenciaga, and browse gorgeous art work with Christie’s Choose and Artwork Authority Museum. They’ll discover extraordinary areas all over the world with Epic Earth and Discover POV, remodel their bodily house right into a planetarium with House Imaginative and prescient, or journey again in time with D-Day: The Digicam Soldier.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional stays the final word leisure machine. With the brand new Imaginative and prescient Professional, customers can expertise concert events like by no means earlier than with Amplium; tune into their favourite groups with apps from main sports activities leagues; or take pleasure in a private theater with apps from fashionable streaming providers on a display screen that seems as much as 100 toes vast. Apple Immersive continues to redefine what is feasible in storytelling, and Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can take pleasure in new collection and movies on the Apple TV app. Later this season, customers within the Lakers’ broadcast territory will have the ability to watch choose reside video games in Apple Immersive, and new titles from the Audi F1 Undertaking, the BBC, HYBE, and Crimson Bull will launch in Apple Immersive within the coming months.4 The Apple TV app can be residence to one of many largest digital collections of 3D films accessible, that includes latest blockbusters like Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, The right way to Prepare Your Dragon, and Depraved.
Gaming on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is subsequent stage with its ultra-high-resolution shows, superior Spatial Audio system, low latency, and responsive controls throughout a wide range of enter strategies, together with fashionable recreation controllers like Sony DualSense, which now helps multidevice pairing.
Gamers will have the ability to take pleasure in iPad video games like The place Winds Meet, POOLS, and Sniper Elite 4, enjoyable spatial video games like Porta Nubi and Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss, and the newest titles on consoles and PCs with apps like Portal and Steam Hyperlink. And with help for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controller, gamers get a brand new class of immersive video games with high-performance movement monitoring in six levels of freedom, finger contact detection, and vibration help. Elu Legend, Pickle Professional, Ping Pong Membership, and Spatial Rifts are a few of the first video games accessible with help for the PlayStation VR2 controller.
Enhanced Capabilities for Professional Customers and Enterprises
With Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, customers can supercharge their workflows and uncover new methods to understand their inventive visions. Artists can design new works utilizing apps like Crayon and Da Vinci Eye. Photographers can edit photos with shade accuracy from any location and in any lighting situation utilizing Pixelmator on MacBook Professional with Mac Digital Show. Filmmakers can scout areas from anyplace by viewing spatial media — together with panoramas and spatial movies shot on iPhone — on a big wraparound show. And professional customers can assemble and rehearse their shows whereas in a seat-for-seat reproduction of the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park utilizing Keynote. With Logitech Muse — a digital pencil constructed for Imaginative and prescient Professional — customers can create and collaborate with a brand new stage of precision. Apps like Crayon, doppl by Interaptix, Sketch Professional, and Spatial Analogue are including help for Muse over the approaching weeks.
Companies all over the world are harnessing the facility of spatial computing on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional every single day to invent new options and streamline operations throughout design, schooling, healthcare, gross sales, and extra. CAE, the multinational know-how firm that focuses on simulation and instruction options, makes use of Imaginative and prescient Professional to assist pilots full coaching actions exterior of specialised facilities, that includes true-to-life flight deck environments and situations. At Porsche, drivers can visualize and personalize new automobiles in choose showrooms earlier than taking supply. And by seamlessly mixing digital content material with the bodily world, Visage Imaging offers high-quality, three-dimensional medical imaging, serving to hospitals like UC San Diego Well being enhance affected person care.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and the Atmosphere
Apple 2030 is the corporate’s formidable plan to be carbon impartial throughout its total footprint by the top of this decade by decreasing product emissions from their three greatest sources: supplies, electrical energy, and transportation. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is made with one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the body and battery enclosure, one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled cobalt within the battery. Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed to final and meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity and protected chemistry. The paper packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based and may be simply recycled.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with the M5 chip and Twin Knit Band begins at $3,499 (U.S.), and is offered in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage capacities.
- Clients can pre-order Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with the M5 chip and Twin Knit Band right this moment in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. It is going to be accessible for pre-order in China mainland and Singapore on Friday, October 17.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with the M5 chip and Twin Knit Band can be accessible in Apple Retailer areas in Australia, Canada, China mainland, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. on Wednesday, October 22. It is going to be accessible in South Korea and Taiwan later.
- Clients can guide a demo of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional on-line. Demos are hosted in any respect Apple Retailer areas the place Imaginative and prescient Professional is offered. Demos of the newest Imaginative and prescient Professional will function the brand new Twin Knit Band, and clients can ask to see new options, apps, and experiences, together with the Spatial Gallery app, Apple Intelligence options like Genmoji and Writing Instruments, and prolonged previews of a number of Apple Immersive experiences, together with the brand new sports activities documentary Tour De Pressure from CANAL+ and MotoGP in choose markets.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional comes with the brand new Twin Knit Band, a Gentle Seal, two Gentle Seal Cushions, an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Cowl for the entrance of the machine, Sharpening Fabric, Battery, USB-C Cost Cable, and the 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max.
- Twin Knit Band is offered to buy individually for $99 (U.S.).
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Journey Case is offered for $199 (U.S.).
- For customers who require imaginative and prescient correction, ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers can be accessible for $99 (U.S.), and ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription can be accessible for $149 (U.S.).5
- Logitech Muse is now accessible to pre-order for $129.95 (U.S.) from logitech.com and the Apple Retailer on-line in international locations and areas the place Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is offered. It is going to be accessible alongside Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with M5 and the Twin Knit Band on Wednesday, October 22.
- PlayStation VR2 Sense controller and Controller Charging Station can be accessible for $249.95 (U.S.) from the Apple Retailer on-line within the U.S. starting Tuesday, November 11.
- AppleCare delivers distinctive service and help, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Clients can select AppleCare+ to cowl Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, or within the U.S., AppleCare One to guard a number of merchandise in a single easy plan. Each plans embody protection for accidents like drops and spills, theft and loss safety on eligible merchandise, battery substitute service, and 24/7 help from Apple Consultants. For extra data, go to apple.com/applecare.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Picture Playground is offered in English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish (Mexico, Spain) when Apple Intelligence is enabled. Characteristic availability varies by area.
- Testing carried out by Apple in August and September 2025 utilizing preproduction Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (M5) models and software program. Testing consisted of full battery discharge whereas performing every of the next duties: video playback, web looking, spatial video seize, and FaceTime. Video playback examined at the side of an Atmosphere, utilizing 2D film content material bought from the Apple TV app. Web looking examined utilizing 20 fashionable web sites. FaceTime examined between two Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional models with Personas enabled. Examined with Wi‑Fi related to a community. Battery life is dependent upon machine settings, utilization, community, environmental circumstances, and plenty of different components. Battery assessments are carried out utilizing particular Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional models; precise outcomes could range.
- Testing carried out by Apple in September 2025 utilizing preproduction Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (M5) and manufacturing Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (M2) models. As much as 2x quicker efficiency outcomes had been achieved when examined with prerelease Draw Issues v1.20250820.0 on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (M5), v1.20250903.0 on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (M2), and a 768×768 text-to-image era with step-distilled Qwen Picture mannequin at 6-bit quantization in two steps. When examined with Pictures app by creating spatial scenes from photographs, efficiency outcomes had been as much as 1.5x quicker. Efficiency assessments are carried out utilizing particular Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional models and mirror the approximate efficiency of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- Further details about titles from the Audi F1 Undertaking, the BBC, HYBE, and Crimson Bull can be supplied by these creators nearer to their availability.
- A sound prescription is required. Not all prescriptions are supported. Imaginative and prescient correction equipment are offered individually. ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription are solely accessible to buy on-line.
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