Gurman: No Apple event on March 16

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

Earlier this week, a report came out from Taiwanese site Economic daily news suggested there would be a March 16 event, with the first rumor being picked up and spread by a few other sites. Economic daily news quoted unverified and baseless content from Twitter accounts LeaksApplePro and FrontTron, neither of which has a track record of providing accurate details about Apple’s plans.

The March 16 date was nothing more than a guess based on past Apple events, but it still got traction. In a tweet that responds to MacRumors editor Joe Rossignol’s comment on a possible March event, Gurman confirmed that the March 16 date is incorrect.

In a separate tweet, he said “the launch is not on the 16th,” leaving open the possibility for a March event on a different date.

Apple has several products in the works that are rumored for the first half of 2021, including a refreshed iMac, new iPad Pro models, an updated iPad mini, a new cheap AirPod, refreshed AirPods Pro and the AirPods 3, plus we’re waiting always on the debut of the AirTags.

Some of these products could indeed be introduced during a spring event, but no date has been set yet. Apple does host events in March in most years, but this is not guaranteed. Past spring events took place on March 9 (2015), March 21 (2016), March 27 (2018) and March 25 (2019), with no event taking place in March 2017 or March 2020.