Intrepid Express tech editor Dave Snelling is, as you can see below, up with the lark and on the ground in California to attend today’s big launch event, which is due to start at 6pm UK time.

Today is Apple’s biggest day of the year, as it is every year. The iPhone holds up a vast percentage of Apple’s enormous business, and if rumours and leaks are correct, the iPhone 17 range will present a more notable set of updates to Apple’s smartphone line up than the iPhone 16 was last year – the rumoured thinner iPhone 17 Air being chief among those updates.

But Apple has failed to deliver on some of its promises for Apple Intelligence, its AI features for iPhone, including a smarter Siri that has yet to materialise. It’ll be interesting to see if that is addressed today.

Dave’s across the pond but I’ll be here in the UK with you for the next few hours for the build up to the event, plus giving updates the whole way through as we see what’s new.

There could well be new Apple Watch models, AirPods and more – we’ll have to wait and see.