This year’s version is called iOS 18, and will eventually include Apple Intelligence, a collection of AI features for daily usage like summarizing messages and generating cute images. However ...

Apple doesn’t make or sell these cute cases, sadly, but it is promoting the images as ways of celebrating customers’ creativity in how they customized their AirPods cases.

The company has been hosting it every year since 1983, and in more recent years the events have become a fixture of the tech hype machine — a chance for Apple to show off its latest software to ...