It used the same colors and had the same subtle glow effect. The gorgeous multicolor gradient was masked inside the Apple logo on the event’s invitation. What it really depicted was the style of the default wallpapers.įor Apple’s 2017 iPhone X event, they did the same thing. The 2019 iPhone event invitation was widely believed to be a nod toward new colors for iPhone 11. In fact, Apple has done this a bunch of times. Using the default wallpapers for event graphics wasn’t new in 2020. This made it a tad easier to surmise that the colors flying out from behind the Apple logo were the ones from the Big Sur default wallpaper. It was their last chance to show off Apple Silicon machines before the end of the year. When the November One more thing event was announced, we knew it had something to do with the Mac. It was the iPhone 12 default wallpapers mixed together and turned on their side. Some people figured that the invitation was hiding AirTags. Moving into October, the Hi, Speed iPhone event invitation showed off a blue and yellow set of bubbles. With the Time Flies September event, the logo included in all of the graphics lines up perfectly with the loopy wallpapers included in the iPad Air. Sometimes, the wallpaper design is hidden in plain sight and sometimes it’s more subtle. All three of Apple’s Fall events last year hid wallpapers within their graphics.

But the vast majority of them did in fact hide the default wallpaper of the flagship product for the event. There are a few event invitations that didn’t actually have anything at all hidden within them. Over the past four years, Apple event graphics have sort of adopted a pattern. I’m here to tell you that there’s usually only ever one thing that these graphics are hiding, the default wallpaper of whatever new device is being introduced at the event. Whenever an Apple event graphic hits the web, it gets torn apart as people try and decode whatever hint they have told themselves is hidden within. With Apple event invites going out yesterday, the world is abuzz with wild ideas and rampant kremlinology.

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