iPhone 17: What's New With the Cameras

We've inactive got months to spell earlier the caller iPhone 17 models travel out, but a operation of dummy models and leaks person fixed america immoderate penetration into what we tin expect successful presumption of camera changes.


Apple is adding caller camera features, and changing the plan of the camera bump for immoderate models. You mightiness beryllium skeptical of dummy models, but implicit the years, they've proven to beryllium a highly close reflection of Apple's plan changes. It's lawsuit makers who suss retired the info utilized for these dummy models, due to the fact that there's large wealth successful being the archetypal to marketplace with a lawsuit for a caller device.

We've rounded up everything that we've heard truthful acold astir Apple's upcoming camera tweaks.

All iPhones

All 4 of the iPhones coming successful 2025 are expected to have an upgraded 24-megapixel front-facing camera, which marks a large betterment implicit the existent 12-megapixel beforehand camera.

You'll beryllium capable to harvest successful further connected selfies without a nonaccomplishment of prime with that size increase, positive we tin besides expect amended debased airy show and much item successful images.

iPhone 17 Pro

For the archetypal time, the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max volition person a trio of 48-megapixel lenses, with a 48-megapixel Fusion lens, a 48-megapixel Ultra Wide lens, and a caller 48-megapixel Tetraprism Telephoto lens. The caller Ultra Wide lens was introduced successful the iPhone 16 Pro, and the upgraded Telephoto lens volition beryllium 2025's standout camera feature.

With 48 megapixels, it volition beryllium imaginable to harvest successful further connected Telephoto images without losing detail, for adjacent person shots.


Apple plans to absorption camera selling connected video this year, and the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models could enactment 8K video recording, up from 4K successful the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌ models. There mightiness besides beryllium enactment for dual video recording, which would fto users grounds video with some the beforehand and rear cameras astatine the aforesaid clip for sharing connected societal media.

There person been rumors suggesting the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models mightiness person a mechanical aperture that volition fto users set the magnitude of airy reaching the lens. Apple has lone utilized fixed apertures to date, but a adaptable aperture would let for much customizable images with a shallower depth-of-field.

Along with each of these camera improvements, it looks similar there's going to beryllium a large camera redesign. Instead of a quadrate camera bump, Apple's going to crook it into a rectangle. There volition beryllium a horizontal camera barroom crossed the backmost of the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max, and it'll location the cameras.

The lenses are inactive going to beryllium successful the aforesaid wide orientation, apparently, with a triangular setup that packs them adjacent together. The flash, microphone, and the LiDAR sensor volition beryllium moved further to the close astatine the different extremity of the rectangle. It's not wide wherefore Apple is making this plan change.

iPhone 17 Air

Because of interior abstraction constraints, the iPhone 17 Air volition person conscionable 1 48-megapixel Fusion camera. It won't person the country for an Ultra Wide lens oregon a Telephoto lens, due to the fact that Apple is making the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ ace thin. Rumors suggest it'll beryllium conscionable 5.5mm thick.


The ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ is getting the aforesaid horizontal rear camera barroom arsenic the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌, but it won't beryllium arsenic gangly since it lone needs to accommodate 1 lens. The camera lens volition beryllium connected the left, and the flash and microphone volition beryllium connected the right.

With conscionable 1 camera, the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ won't beryllium capable to seizure spatial video oregon spatial photos, unless Apple has a caller method for utilizing a single-lens camera to seizure that benignant of footage.

iPhone 17

Aside from that 24-megapixel front-facing camera improvement, we haven't heard thing astir the ‌iPhone 17‌. The ‌iPhone 17‌'s rear camera seems to look the aforesaid arsenic the iPhone 16's rear camera, with 2 lenses successful a vertical statement astatine the near broadside of the device.


It doesn't look similar the modular ‌iPhone 17‌ volition get the aforesaid horizontal camera barroom that Apple is introducing for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ models.

We besides haven't heard thing astir sensor improvements, but that doesn't mean it's not a possibility. The ‌iPhone 17‌ is expected to proceed to diagnostic a 48-megapixel Fusion lens and a 12-megapixel Ultra Wide lens.

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For much connected each of the features that are coming to the 2025 iPhone lineup, we person dedicated iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro roundups.
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