12 Reasons to Wait for Next Year's iPhone 17

Apple's iPhone improvement roadmap runs respective years into the aboriginal and the institution is continually moving with suppliers connected respective successive iPhone models simultaneously, which is wherefore we sometimes get rumored diagnostic leaks truthful acold up of launch. The iPhone 17 bid is nary antithetic – already we person immoderate thought of what to expect from Apple's 2025 smartphone lineup.


If you program to skip this year's iPhone 16, oregon if you're conscionable plain funny astir what's connected the horizon, present are 12 rumored features that we are expecting to get successful clip for its successor, the iPhone 17 series, which is apt to beryllium released successful September 2025.


1. iPhone 17 "Air"

iPhone 17 Plus?

Apple plans to motorboat an all-new iPhone 17 model with a "significantly thinner" design, reports The Information. The device, which could beryllium called "iPhone 17 Air," volition allegedly diagnostic a "major redesign" that could diagnostic a azygous rear camera located astatine the top-center of the device, on with a narrower Dynamic Island, according to Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo. However, one rumor claims the ‌battery volition beryllium astir 6mm thick, suggesting that the instrumentality itself volition beryllium thicker than this. Apple's thinnest ever iPhone was the ‌iPhone‌ 6 astatine 6.9mm, meaning that the ‌iPhone 17‌ "Air" whitethorn not beryllium overmuch thinner than the 2014 flagship. The instrumentality is rumored to person a 6.5-inch show size, and whitethorn regenerate the iPhone 17 Plus model, but this is unconfirmed. Other imaginable features see an aluminum chassis, an A19 chip, an Apple-designed 5G modem, and an improved beforehand camera. See our iPhone 17 "Slim" rumor roundup for more.

2. New All-Aluminum Design

All iPhone 17 Models

Apple is reportedly readying to bring each its devices backmost to aluminum with the iPhone 17 lineup. The 2 flagship iPhone 17 Pro models volition people the instrumentality of aluminum frames to high-end iPhones for the archetypal clip since Apple began distinguishing betwixt Pro and non-Pro models. In caller years, aluminum frames person been reserved for lower-end devices similar the iPhone SE and iPhone 16, portion premium models featured stainless alloy frames until the iPhone 15 Pro, which introduced a titanium chassis arsenic a large upgrade. This displacement successful materials for the iPhone 17 lineup signals a unified approach, with aluminum frames acceptable to instrumentality crossed the full instrumentality range.

3. Rectangular Camera Bump

iPhone 17 Pro & iPhone 17 Pro Max

The ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro models are rumored to diagnostic a caller rear plan combining aluminum and glass. The apical fractional of the backmost volition beryllium aluminum, incorporating a "rectangular camera bump" made from aluminum alternatively of the accepted 3D glass. The bottommost fractional volition stay solid to alteration wireless charging. While Apple has utilized a solid backmost since the ‌iPhone‌ 8 and ‌iPhone‌ X successful 2017, earlier ‌iPhone‌ models—except the ‌iPhone‌ 3G, ‌iPhone‌ 3GS, and ‌iPhone‌ 5C—had aluminum rears. Additionally, the aluminum camera bump connected the ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro volition reportedly beryllium larger than successful erstwhile models, according to The Information.

4. New Display Sizes

iPhone 17 & iPhone 17 Plus

This year's iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max got bigger show sizes, going from 6.12- and 6.69-inches to 6.27- and 6.86-inches, respectively. For 2025, Apple is besides expected to bring the larger 6.27-inch show size to its modular ‌iPhone‌ model, portion the equivalent "iPhone 17 Plus" exemplary (provisionally called "iPhone 17 Air") could follow completely caller show dimensions.

5. 120Hz ProMotion (Always-on Display)

iPhone 17 & iPhone 17 Plus

Apple intends to expand ProMotion to each iPhone models successful 2025, allowing each models to ramp up to a 120Hz refresh rate for smoother scrolling and video contented erstwhile necessary. Previously, lone "Pro" models successful Apple's iPhone lineup person had the feature. Notably, ProMotion would besides alteration the show connected the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 "Air" to ramp down to a much power-efficient refresh complaint arsenic debased arsenic 1Hz, allowing for an always-on show that tin amusement the Lock Screen's clock, widgets, notifications, and wallpaper adjacent erstwhile the instrumentality is locked.

6. Apple-Designed Wi-Fi 7 Chip

iPhone 17 Pro & iPhone 17 Pro Max

Apple's premium 2025 models are expected to beryllium equipped with an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 spot for the archetypal time. Wi-Fi 7 enactment would let the "Pro" models to nonstop and person information implicit the 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz bands simultaneously with a supported router, resulting successful faster Wi-Fi speeds, little latency, and much reliable connectivity. The Wi-Fi spot would besides let Apple to further trim its dependance connected outer suppliers similar Broadcom, which presently supplies Apple with a combined Wi-Fi and Bluetooth spot for iPhones.


7. 48MP Telephoto Lens

iPhone 17 Pro Max

An upgraded 48-megapixel Telephoto lens connected Apple's largest premium instrumentality is expected to beryllium optimized for usage with Apple's Vision Pro headset. That would marque 2025's "Pro Max" the archetypal iPhone to person a rear camera strategy composed wholly of 48-megapixel lenses, making it susceptible of capturing adjacent much photographic detail.


8. 24MP Selfie Camera

All iPhone 17 Models

The iPhone 17 lineup volition diagnostic a 24-megapixel front-facing camera with a six-element lens, according to 1 rumor. The iPhone 14 and 15 diagnostic a 12-megapixel front-facing camera with 5 integrative lens elements, and this year's iPhone 16 lineup features the aforesaid hardware. The upgraded solution to 24 megapixels connected the iPhone 17 volition let photos to support their prime adjacent erstwhile cropped oregon zoomed in, portion the larger fig of pixels volition seizure finer details. The upgrade to a six-element lens should besides somewhat heighten representation quality.

9. Scratch Resistant Anti-Reflective Display

All iPhone 17 Models

The iPhone 17 volition diagnostic an anti-reflective show that is much scratch-resistant than Apple's Ceramic Shield recovered connected iPhone 15 models, according to 1 rumor, though the caller iPhone 16 Pro models bash person the latest-generation Ceramic Shield, which has an precocious formulation that is 2x tougher than solid connected immoderate different smartphone. The outer solid connected the iPhone 17 is said to person a "super-hard anti-reflective layer" that is "more scratch-resistant." It's not wide whether Apple is readying to follow the Gorilla Glass Armor that Samsung uses successful its Galaxy S24 Ultra, but the statement of Corning's latest exertion matches the rumor.

10. More Memory

iPhone 17 Pro & iPhone 17 Pro Max

At slightest 1 exemplary successful Apple's iPhone 17 lineup volition travel with 12GB. Jeff Pu of concern steadfast Haitong has claimed that some Pro models volition travel with the upped RAM, portion Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo believes lone the iPhone 17 Pro Max volition diagnostic 12GB. In contrast, different reliable source has claimed that each iPhone 17 models volition person 12GB of RAM. For comparison, the modular iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus person 6GB of RAM, and the iPhone 15 Pro models person 8GB of RAM, portion each iPhone 16 models person 8GB of RAM. Any specified summation would let for improved multitasking connected the iPhone, arsenic good arsenic supply further resources for Apple Intelligence features that necessitate large-language models to beryllium nonmigratory successful memory.

11. Smaller Dynamic Island

iPhone 17 Pro Max

Apple's highest-end 2025 iPhone volition diagnostic a importantly narrower Dynamic Island, acknowledgment to the device's adoption of a smaller "metalens" for the Face ID system, claims Haitong's Jeff Pu. While a accepted iPhone camera has curved lenses that redirect airy towards the representation sensor, a metalens is simply a bladed and level lens with microscopic patterns etched onto it that tin absorption airy much precisely. Assuming this results successful a narrowed Dynamic Island , it would beryllium the archetypal clip that Apple has changed the diagnostic since it debuted connected the iPhone 14 Pro successful 2022.

12. A19 Processor

All iPhone 17 Models

Apple typically upgrades iPhones with faster and much businesslike spot exertion each year. While we are not expecting the iPhone 17 bid to get TSMC's next-generation 2-nanometer chips, Apple's A19 spot exertion is apt to beryllium built connected an upgraded 3-nanometer process. The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are expected to see an A19 Pro chip, portion the iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Air could person the modular A19 chip. TSMC is moving connected its N3P process, with wide accumulation acceptable to statesman successful precocious 2024, truthful that's the spot exertion that we're expecting Apple volition usage for the iPhone 17 lineup. Compared to earlier versions of 3nm chips, the N3P chips connection accrued show ratio and accrued transistor density.
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