Apple to Keep Titanium Chassis for iPhone 17 Pro Models, Claims Leaker

Next year's iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max volition diagnostic a titanium chassis conscionable similar the existent Pro models, contrary to reports of Apple adopting aluminum crossed its 2025 lineup, claims the Weibo leaker known arsenic "Instant Digital."


Last month, The Information's Wayne Ma reported that Apple's 2 flagship ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro models would beryllium the archetypal high-end iPhones to diagnostic an aluminum framework since the delineation of the iPhone lineup into Pro and non-Pro models.

Prior to the iPhone 15 Pro, high-end ‌iPhone‌ models utilized stainless alloy frames. Then Apple introduced a titanium chassis to the iPhone 15 Pro, touting it arsenic a large upgrade. However, Ma reports that with the ‌iPhone 17‌ lineup, Apple is readying to modulation the full scope of devices backmost to aluminum.

Instant Digital doesn't agree, though. "Of people the iPhone 17 Pro volition inactive usage titanium," said the leaker successful a Weibo post (machine translation). "Why would anyone judge it would power to aluminum? Think astir it — it's conscionable not possible. Looking backmost astatine caller iPhone models, Apple has consistently emphasized the premium framework materials of the Pro bid arsenic 1 of its cardinal selling points, from 'surgical-grade stainless steel' to 'titanium.' If they switched to aluminum, however could they adjacent marketplace it?"

It's unclear if the Weibo leaker has proviso concatenation accusation to backmost up their claim, but arsenic a standalone argument, it's not peculiarly water-tight. The Information's Ma reported that the power to aluminum is portion of a large plan alteration that includes an aluminum precocious backmost with a "rectangular camera bump made of aluminum alternatively than accepted 3D glass," with the bottommost fractional of the device's backmost continuing to beryllium made of solid to enactment wireless charging.

Apple is besides nary alien to touting breakthrough iPhone features lone to region them successful aboriginal models. In 2015, for example, 3D Touch was introduced with the iPhone 6s arsenic a revolutionary mode to interact with the iPhone done pressure-sensitive gestures similar Peek and Pop. Apple unceremoniously ditched 3D Touch with the iPhone 11 successful 2019.


Instant Digital has a mixed reputation for accuracy with Apple rumors but has delivered immoderate notably precise predictions. These see the 2023 motorboat of the Yellow iPhone 14, the frosted backmost glass connected the iPhone 15 and ‌iPhone 15‌ Plus, the Apple Watch Series 9 being a minor refresh, spatial video seizure connected the ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro, the summation of a landscape front-facing camera to the iPad Air and iPad Pro, and the ‌iPad Pro‌'s nano-texture show option.

The iPhone 17 bid is expected to motorboat arsenic accustomed successful the fall, with caller show sizes, a rumored caller ultra-thin model, ProMotion displays crossed the lineup, and more.
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