Gurman: No Apple event will happen on March 16

Apple has no plans to hold an event on Tuesday, March 16, BloombergMark Gurman confirmed on Twitter tonight.

Earlier this week, a report from the Taiwanese website Economic Daily News suggested that there would be an event on March 16, with the initial rumor collected and released by some other sites. Economic Daily News cited unverified and unproven content from Twitter accounts LeaksApplePro and FrontTron, neither of which has a history of providing accurate details about Apple’s plans.

The March 16 date was nothing more than an assumption based on past Apple events, but it still gained momentum. In a tweet responding to MacRumors editor commentary Joe Rossignol on a possible March event, Gurman confirmed that the March 16 date is not correct.

In a separate tweet, he said that “the launch is not on the 16th”, which leaves open the possibility of a March event on a different date.

Apple has several products in the works that were rumored for the first half of 2021, including an updated iMac, new iPad Pro models, an updated iPad mini, a new low-cost AirPod, redesigned AirPods Pro and AirPods 3, more so we are waiting for the AirTags to debut.

Some of these products could indeed be presented at a spring event, but there is still no known date for that event. Apple holds March events in most years, but it’s not guaranteed. Last spring events were held on March 9 (2015), March 21 (2016), March 27 (2018) and March 25 (2019), with no events taking place in March 2017 or March 2020.