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Welcome to the latest issue of Macworld. The rumours were true: Apple’s next-generation iPhones, the 7 and 7 Plus, traded the headphone jack for Lightning EarPods. Now there’s one port instead of two. We’ve all the news from the launch event, including hands-on reviews with the iPhone 7 (page 23), Apple Watch Series 2 (page 29) and Apple’s AirPods, the company’s first ever wireless earphones (page 33).

The other big news in the world of Apple is the release of its macOS Sierra operating system. Many of you will be keen to download it as soon as possible, but what do you do if your Mac can’t verify the new OS? Thankfully all is not lost and on page 109, we explain how to fix the problem.

We take a look at the latest version of Pixelmator (page 78), our favourite image-editing app, while on page 67 we round up the latest Mac games.

Plus, we’ve our usual tips and tutorials, so you can get the most out of your Apple hardware.