First iPhone 17 Pro Design Leak Claims Surprising Return to Aluminum, Rectangular Camera Bump, and More

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro Max volition connection "significant plan changes," The Information's Wayne Ma reports.


The 2 flagship ‌iPhone 17‌ models volition beryllium the archetypal high-end iPhones to diagnostic an aluminum framework since the delineation of the iPhone lineup into Pro and non-Pro models. In caller years, lower-end ‌iPhone‌ models specified arsenic the iPhone SE and iPhone 16 person featured aluminum frames. Until the merchandise of the iPhone 15 Pro, high-end ‌iPhone‌ models featured stainless alloy frames. Now, the high-end iPhones diagnostic titanium chassis – a alteration that was touted arsenic 1 of the cardinal upgrades of the ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro. With the instauration of the ‌iPhone 17‌ lineup, Apple is reportedly readying to bring the full enactment of devices backmost to aluminum.

The rear of the ‌iPhone 17‌ and ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro Max volition besides diagnostic a caller part-aluminum, part-glass design. The apical fractional of the backmost volition beryllium made of aluminum and diagnostic a "rectangular camera bump made of aluminum alternatively than accepted 3D glass," portion the bottommost fractional volition proceed to beryllium made of solid to enactment wireless charging. Apple introduced a solid backmost to the ‌iPhone‌ with the ‌iPhone‌ 8 and ‌iPhone‌ X successful 2017, but anterior to that, each ‌iPhone‌ but the ‌iPhone‌ 3G, ‌iPhone‌ 3GS, and ‌iPhone‌ 5C had an aluminum rear. The new, aluminum camera bump of the ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro volition besides seemingly beryllium larger than that of erstwhile models.

The caller plan volition represent 1 of the astir important ocular changes to the high-end ‌iPhone‌ models successful caller years. The Information has an fantabulous way grounds for close Apple rumors, truthful the latest study is highly apt to cookware out. The ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro and ‌iPhone 17‌ Pro Max are expected to motorboat successful the autumn of 2025 alongside the ‌iPhone 17‌ and ‌iPhone 17‌ Air.
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