iPhone 17 Pro Just Weeks Away — Here Are the Top 4 Rumored Features

Apple's yearly iPhone lawsuit is just astir the corner, with the iPhone 17 bid expected to beryllium announced successful aboriginal September, and availability to travel aboriginal successful the month. As always, the Pro and Pro Max models volition person the astir caller features.


Below, we person recapped rumors astir 4 of the astir absorbing iPhone 17 Pro features. This database is subjective, of course, truthful dependable disconnected successful the comments section.

12GB of RAM

iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max models are rumored to diagnostic 12GB of RAM, which would beryllium an summation implicit the 8GB of RAM successful the iPhone 16 Pro models.

Increased RAM tin lend to improved performance, including for Apple Intelligence.

Even the iPhone 17 Air is rumored to diagnostic 12GB of RAM, portion the base-model iPhone 17 is expected to stay astatine 8GB of RAM.

Up to 8× Optical Zoom

iPhone 17 Pro models are wide expected to beryllium equipped with an upgraded 48-megapixel Telephoto camera, and it might connection up to 8× optical zoom.

Specifically, it has been rumored that the Telephoto lens successful the iPhone 17 Pro models volition beryllium capable to move, allowing for aggregate focal lengths. As a result, a tipster claimed that the iPhone 17 Pro models volition fto you power betwixt 5× and 8× optical zoom, without tricks similar sensor cropping. A moving Telephoto lens would necessitate much parts and interior space, which could explicate wherefore the camera bump is expected to beryllium larger connected iPhone 17 Pro models.


On the iPhone 16 Pro models, the Telephoto lens has a fixed focal magnitude of 120mm, and it offers a azygous 5× optical zoom option. Apple says the devices besides person a 2× optical zoom option, but that uses the main rear camera with sensor cropping, which successful elemental presumption is simply a method that efficaciously zooms successful connected the halfway of a larger photo.

Anti-Reflective Display

While it has been an on-again, off-again rumor, the latest connection is that each iPhone 17 models will diagnostic an anti-reflective display (option?) with a matte finish.

If this rumor is true, possibly the iPhone volition get the aforesaid nano-texture solid enactment that Apple's online store offers for prime higher-end configurations of the iMac, MacBook Pro, and iPad Pro. In the U.S., for example, a nano-texture show is simply a $100 upgrade enactment for iPad Pro models equipped with 1TB oregon 2TB of storage. Nano-texture solid is besides an upgrade enactment for Apple's Studio Display and Pro Display XDR monitors.

On the different hand, possibly it volition conscionable beryllium a much basal anti-reflective coating that is included connected each iPhone 17 models astatine nary other cost.

For the iPad Pro, Apple says nano-texture solid "reduces glare and is cleanable for high-end, color-managed workflows and demanding lighting environments."

Video Recording Enhancements

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has said that Apple is readying to emphasize the iPhone 17 Pro's improved video signaling capabilities.

Here is what helium said astir that:In past years, Apple has focused much heavy connected the camera's photo-taking abilities. This twelvemonth it volition accent improvements to video recording. One of the goals for 2025's iPhone enactment is to get the vlogging assemblage and different video creators to determination distant from standalone cameras and usage the iPhone for adjacent much of their work. Look for Apple to much heavy than ever tout these video signaling capabilities erstwhile the caller iPhones debut successful September.One circumstantial rumor is that the Camera app connected the iPhone 17 Pro models volition fto users record video with the beforehand and rear cameras simultaneously.

It has adjacent been rumored that Apple mightiness connection a "Camera Pro" app of sorts, for some photos and videos, but the root down this accusation does not person an established way grounds yet. The app would vie with the likes of Halide, Kino, and Filmic Pro. It is unclear if the app would beryllium exclusive to the iPhone 17 Pro models.
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