Ranked: The Best Features Rumored for the iPhone 17 Lineup

We person conscionable nether 2 months to spell until the debut of Apple's iPhone 17 models, and rumors person been ramping up successful caller weeks. We went done everything we cognize truthful far, pulling retired the astir breathtaking rumors and highlighting immoderate different changes that aren't going to beryllium truthful great.

Top Tier

• Ultra Thin iPhone 17 Air - The iPhone 17 Air is 2025's astir breathtaking iPhone rumor, due to the fact that it's the archetypal existent redesign that we've seen to the ‌iPhone‌ successful years. We got to effort Samsung's competing super bladed Galaxy S25 Edge, and it's nice holding specified a lightweight smartphone.


• That Orange Color - The iPhone 17 Pro is rumored to travel successful an orange-like shade. It's astir apt going to beryllium much muted than we've seen and copper successful tone, but it's inactive a chill colour we haven't seen before.


• 24-Megapixel Selfie Camera - Better selfies and FaceTime video quality? Nothing to kick astir there. The 24-megapixel camera is rumored for each ‌iPhone 17‌ models.


• More RAM - The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ models are expected to person 12GB RAM, up from 8GB. More RAM is ever a positive for games and aboriginal AI features.


• iPhone 17 Pro Battery Life - According to rumors, the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max volition person the biggest artillery of immoderate ‌iPhone‌ to day with a capableness of ~5,000mAh, truthful it should past adjacent longer than the 33 hr maximum of the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Pretty Awesome

• iPhone 17 Colors - The modular ‌iPhone 17‌ is expected to travel successful greenish and purple, 2 colors that we haven't seen for a while.


• Bigger iPhone 17 - The modular ‌iPhone 17‌ volition beryllium 6.3 inches, truthful it'll lucifer the size of the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌.


• ProMotion - There person been rumors that each 4 ‌iPhone 17‌ models volition enactment 120Hz ProMotion refresh rates this year. If that happens, it's 1 little happening distinguishing the Pro models, but a positive for buyers who get the modular model.


• Two-Tone Pro Design - The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models are rumored to person a two-material plan with much metallic and little solid astatine the back. Anything that makes the ‌iPhone‌ harder to interruption is simply a plus.


• 48-Megapixel Telephoto - The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ is expected to get an upgraded 48-megapixel Telephoto lens for improved zoomed-in shots.


• A19 Chip - The ‌iPhone 17‌ and 17 Air could get an A19 chip, portion the 17 Pro models get an A19 Pro. It's inactive a 3-nanometer chip, but it'll beryllium faster and much efficient.


• Improved Cooling - The ‌iPhone 17‌ models are expected to diagnostic amended vigor dissipation, which volition fto the A19 chips tally faster with little thermal throttling.


• Better Display Coating - The ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ could person an anti-reflective show that's much scratch resistant. Anything that improves durability is simply a plus.

So-So

• The Camera Bar - The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ are some rumored to person a horizontal camera barroom that goes each the mode crossed the backmost of the ‌iPhone‌. Apple's mentation volition surely look amended successful existent beingness than successful renders and dummy models, but who truly wants a bigger camera bump?


• Titanium to Aluminum - Apple is seemingly going to driblet titanium for aluminum for the 17 Pro models. Aluminum is lighter than titanium, but it feels similar a measurement backward successful quality.


• iPhone 17 Air C1 Modem - The ‌iPhone 17‌ and 17 Pro volition get Qualcomm modems, but the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ is rumored to person Apple's C1 modem. It doesn't enactment the fastest mmWave 5G speeds.


• Relocated Apple Logo - With the larger camera bar, the two-material design, and immoderate rumored MagSafe changes, the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models whitethorn person an Apple logo that's little connected the device. In mockups, it's included successful the plan of the ‌MagSafe‌ ring, and it looks odd.


• Apple Wi-Fi 7 Chip - Apple's utilizing its ain Wi-Fi 7 spot successful each 4 ‌iPhone 17‌ models. This whitethorn bring artillery beingness improvements, but it's mostly an under-the-hood alteration that lets Apple chopped retired outer suppliers.


• Mechanical Aperture - ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models could person a mechanical aperture that volition fto users set the magnitude of airy reaching the lens. It's utile for extent of tract successful DSLRs, but the inferior successful a smartphone remains to beryllium seen, particularly due to the fact that Apple already has software-based tools for adjusting extent of field.


• 8K Video Recording - 8K video signaling could beryllium disposable connected the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌. That's a chill feature, but determination are a constricted fig of radical who request to grounds successful 8K. It's besides going to instrumentality up a ton of space, and volition astir apt necessitate filming with an outer SSD.

Lame

• Price Increases - Base ‌iPhone‌ pricing mightiness spell up owed to tariffs. Apple's facing precocious prices successful China, and respective different countries wherever it manufactures iPhones. Price hikes aren't a definite thing, but probable.


• iPhone 17 Air Color - The ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ volition supposedly travel successful black, white, airy blue, and airy gold, with that bluish being akin to the ace airy M4 MacBook Air blue. Needless to say, these are boring choices.


• Single-Lens iPhone 17 Air Camera - Due to abstraction constraints, the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ is lone getting a single-lens camera. It won't person the Ultra Wide lens for macro images oregon wider-angle shots, which limits versatility.


• iPhone 17 Air Battery Life - With a ace bladed chassis, the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ needs a smaller battery. Apple is making optimizations, but it won't beryllium connected par with the 17 and 17 Pro.


• iPhone 17 RAM - Right now, rumors suggest the modular ‌iPhone 17‌ is lone going to person 8GB RAM, portion the different models get 12GB. With AI evolving truthful rapidly, it's little than perfect to handicap 1 of the 2025 smartphones.

Do you hold with our rankings? Let america cognize what you're astir looking guardant to successful the comments below. For much rumors, cheque retired our iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro roundups, which we update regularly.
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