iPhone 17 Professional: Each New Characteristic We Know

Apple’s “Awe Dropping” occasion is Sept. 9, 2025 and we anticipate to see new iPhone fashions just like the iPhone 17 Air. However in line with rumors and leaks the iPhone 17 Professional and 17 Professional Max ought to arrive with loads of upgrades and new options, too.

Final week, MacRumors reported (citing a Trendforce report) that the bottom iPhone 17 Professional will value $1,199, $200 greater than the iPhone 16 Professional, however could have twice as a lot storage: 256GB as an alternative of the usual 128GB. The entry-level iPhone 17 Professional Max will even have 256GB, however the worth will begin at $1,299 ($100 greater than the 16 Professional Max).

This pricing information follows a latest alleged picture of the iPhone 17 Professional’s aluminum chassis that appeared on the Chinese language social media web site Weibo, as reported by MacRumors. The photograph exhibits an unfinished aluminum body with cutouts for the cameras and a full-body extensive digicam bump (that traces up with different rumors). It is unimaginable to know if that is an precise physique for an iPhone 17 Professional or only a mock-up that somebody made. But when it is true, it validates earlier rumors that Apple could possibly be altering the iPhone Professional fashions’ body from titanium to aluminum, which is way lighter.

Though hypothesis about an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air has hogged the highlight, the Professional fashions are likely to have extra upgraded options. Along with the digicam, the Professional may get a stunning new coloration and the much-coveted scratch-resistant, antireflective show. 

There’s even a rumored video of the iPhone 17 Professional posted from the X account @skyfops, though there is not any affirmation this was the truth is the precise iPhone 17 Professional or maybe a dummy mannequin:

Apple hasn’t introduced something or confirmed any rumors, and we seemingly will not discover out for positive till the following iPhone formally comes out. Till then, we’re monitoring all the most important leaks and rumors concerning the iPhone 17 Professional and sharing what we have heard thus far. 

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iPhone 17 Professional’s rumored digicam bump redesign and movable telephoto lens

The iPhone 17 Professional’s digicam has been the topic of a number of rumored adjustments, however latest ones come from an nameless tipster.

MacRumors says a tipster who claimed to be aware of an iPhone Professional industrial revealed options that included a telephoto lens — upgraded to 8x optical zoom from 5x on the iPhone 16 Professional — that may apparently transfer. A shifting lens may permit steady optical zoom at varied focal lengths, in line with MacRumors.

CNET Managing Editor Patrick Holland, who’s been reviewing telephones for CNET since 2016, famous that Sony, which for years made the sensors for the iPhone, had a few telephones with a variable zoom lens that labored like an precise digicam zoom lens. Whereas Apple might not use the very same know-how as Sony’s, Holland notes, it may adapt a few of it for the iPhone 17 Professional.

MacRumors additionally reported the iPhone 17 Professional may have an extra Digicam Management button, which might be along with the bottom-right edge digicam button the iPhone 16 fashions sport, in addition to a brand new digicam and video app.

In January, Bu posted a leaked picture on X suggesting that the telephone may function a pill-shaped digicam bar that appears so much just like the digicam bar on Google’s Pixel 9 telephone.

That raised the query of whether or not the iPhone 17 Professional would align the three digicam lenses in a single row or go away them stacked in a pyramid design, because it did with the iPhone 16 Professional.

In February, Bu posted CAD renders of what could possibly be the iPhone 17 lineup, and Entrance Web page Tech additionally shared iPhone 17 Professional renders on this video on YouTube (Apple filed a lawsuit towards YouTuber Jon Prosser, featured on this video, over leaks concerning the iOS26): 

Each confirmed horizontal digicam bars for the iPhone 17 Professional fashions that maintain the stacked lens structure. 

Pu wrote in March that the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max will function a 48-megapixel telephoto rear digicam, up from 12 megapixels on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. That will imply all three cameras on the iPhone 17 Professional fashions — wide-angle, ultrawide and telephoto — could be 48 megapixels.

And as to your selfies, analyst Jeff Pu stories that the front-facing digicam can be upgraded from 12 megapixels on the iPhone 16 to 24 megapixels on all iPhone 17 fashions.

Entrance Web page Tech reported in April that the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max may additionally add a built-in video function that lets you file with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently. The function would allow you to overlay a shot of your face over an outward-facing video. A video improve from the already stellar iPhone 16 Professional may add some severe worth for video creators contemplating the iPhone 17 Professional.

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Professional shows may get an antireflective improve

On July 16, MacRumors cited a “dependable supply” in reporting that the Professional and Professional Max may get a scratch-resistant antireflective show, reversing itself on earlier stories that Apple needed to scrap plans attributable to scaling points. If the newest rumor proves true, the improve from Apple’s Ceramic Defend show may show an attractive function for the Professional and Professional Max. 

Holland known as the antireflective show one of many finest attributes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely. 

Apple Insider reported in Could that the iPhone 17 may get a bigger show than the iPhone 16. DSCC founder and Counterpoint Analysis VP Ross Younger posted on X that the bottom iPhone 17 can be 6.3 inches, an improve from the iPhone 16’s 6.1-inch show. In principle, which means the iPhone 17 would have the identical display dimension because the iPhone 17 Professional.

The iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max are rumored to proceed with a 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch show, respectively, much like the iPhone 16 Professional Max.

Rumored design adjustments for the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max

The most recent rumors concerning the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max design embody colourful developments and a brand new body composition.

Orange among the many Professional coloration lineup

Rumors of a brand new coloration for the iPhone began in April, when Twitter person and leaker Majin Bu (not the Dragon Ball Z character) posted that the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max may get a sky blue choice. 

However on July 14, Bu posted that Apple is ditching sky blue for the Professional Fashions, with solely the rumored iPhone Air claiming the hue. Then on July 29, Bu posted a video on X of Professional mockups in 4 colours: 

• black
• silver
• darkish blue
• orange 

Digital blogger Weibo stated that one of many colours is “associated to the liquid glass design of iOS 26,” saying it will be white however with completely different visible results relying on which gentle it was in. 

For reference, the iPhone 16 and Plus made a splash final yr after they debuted pink, teal and ultramarine coloration choices, alongside the usual white and black. The iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max launched a brand new coloration, desert titanium — a restrained shade of peach — alongside the basic pure titanium, white titanium and black titanium choices. 

The Professional fashions have historically featured extra muted colours, so the prospect of an orange or glass-inspired coloration may supply an thrilling new search for the Professional.

Apple brand shifting decrease

The Apple brand on the again of the telephone could also be shifting decrease on the Professional fashions, as proven in a Bu submit on X of an iPhone 17 mockup:

The change in location is reportedly coming to make room for the bigger digicam bump design.  

Improved audio high quality

On June 2, wccftech, stated the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max would get longer earpieces, citing a submit on X from @duanrui1205. In principle, that would sign improved audio readability. On the Worldwide Builders Convention later in June, Apple stated audio high quality will enhance with software program updates in AirPods with H2 chipsets. CNET bought to be taught firsthand how Apple checks, calibrates and tunes the audio (and video) on an iPhone. Extra enhancements in audio high quality may probably elevate an already spectacular function.

Extra RAM for iPhone 17 lineup

Apple Intelligence and AI are prone to play extra outstanding roles with the iPhone 17. To help the brand new options, all of the iPhone 17 fashions will step as much as 12GB of RAM, tipster Digital Chat Station reported in April. Kuo stated the iPhone 17 Air and Professional fashions would get that elevated 12GB of RAM, however not the bottom mannequin.

Contemplating that the iPhone 16 lineup had 8GB of RAM throughout all fashions, this could possibly be an enormous improve for the iPhone 17. 

Aluminum frames for all, besides Air

There’s been loads of dialogue about whether or not the iPhone 17 Professional will ditch its titanium alloy body for an aluminum one. In February, MacRumors stated Pu predicted that the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max could have all-aluminum frames or probably half glass, half aluminum for higher sturdiness. The iPhone 17 Air would stick to Apple’s present titanium body — or probably a mixture of titanium and aluminum.

Dynamic Island dimension in query

Pu predicted in Could that each one iPhone 17 fashions will use a brand new metalens know-how for the proximity sensor, which may lead to a smaller Face ID sensor and Dynamic Island, in line with a report by 9to5Mac. Nevertheless, Pu’s report contradicts Kuo, who stated that the iPhone 17’s Dynamic Island would stay “largely unchanged” in contrast with the iPhone 16.

Dimensions

Based on a report by 9to5Mac in Could, the iPhone 17 Professional line could also be thicker, 8.725mm, in contrast with the iPhone 16 Professional, which clocks in at 8.25mm thick. That bigger dimension may probably make room for extra battery.  

In a submit on X on July 11, Majin Bu confirmed a video of a case for a thicker iPhone 17 Professional mannequin, with the design seemingly primarily based on the iPhone 17 Professional’s rumored dimensions: 

New A19 Professional chip may enhance efficiency

There’s been some forwards and backwards concerning the chip for the remainder of the iPhone 17 lineup, however rumors have persistently given the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max the A19 Professional chip. 

Extra just lately, MacRumors reported {that a} Weibo account referred to as Fastened Focus Digital stated the iPhone 17 Air will even include an A19 Professional chip, just like the Professional fashions. However the Air would have a 5-core GPU, in line with the rumor, whereas the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max would get a 6-core GPU. An upgraded GPU may enhance graphics and video rendering.

Battery life may get an enormous increase 

What good is a brand new telephone if it would not final all day, proper? The iPhone 17 Professional Max will get the most important ever battery in an iPhone, the Weibo leaker referred to as Prompt Digital stated in a submit on X, as reported by MacRumors. Nevertheless, the location famous Prompt Digital’s spotty file with Apple rumors. If the Professional’s dimensions are an identical to the Professional Max’s, as they’re rumored to be, it stands to cause that the Professional may get the larger battery, too.

And Majin Bu posted on July 3 that the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max will function a vapor chamber cooling system, which may assist forestall the larger battery from overheating.

iPhone 17 Professional launch date anticipated in September

Apple is holding an occasion on Tues. Sept. 9. We anticipate the iPhone 17 collection to be introduced together with new Apple Watches and AirPods. Preorders for a brand new iPhone usually start the Friday after the announcement, with the telephone transport per week later. Based mostly on the Sept. 9 occasion date, the preorder date could possibly be Sept. 12.

Tariffs may elevate the worth, however there are different components

Trump has raised, lowered and paused tariffs a dizzying variety of occasions since February, all of which may have an effect on the price of the iPhone 17 Professional. 

Apple, which says it may transfer a lot of US iPhone manufacturing from China to India, has escaped most of the tariff hikes because of a reciprocal tariff exemption record that features many telephones, laptops and different electronics that Apple produces. 

Nevertheless, all of the reprieves look like momentary so reciprocal tariffs may nonetheless have an effect on costs by the point the iPhone 17 is launched. 

Trump threatened Apple with a 25% tariff on all iPhones made outdoors the nation in a social media submit on Could 23. Later that day, he stated that each one smartphones — not simply iPhones — could be hit with the 25% tariff by the top of June if they do not transfer operations to the US.

No matter how tariffs play out, Apple plans to lift iPhone costs later this yr, The Wall Avenue Journal reported. Apple apparently plans to ascribe the worth improve to higher options and design prices so it might keep away from pointing the finger at tariffs and incurring the wrath of Trump (like Amazon quickly did). 

Holland factors out that the iPhone is overdue for a worth bump. He famous that Apple has by no means elevated the worth for an iPhone Professional ($999) for the reason that iPhone X was first launched in 2017. 

So sure, it’s best to anticipate to pay extra for the iPhone 17, no matter tariffs.

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Are new iPhone rumors and leaks to be trusted?

This is the half the place I are available in and say: All the pieces’s a rumor till Apple formally releases the following iPhone. Rumors and hypothesis main as much as the iPhone’s launch are sometimes primarily based on insider information or leaked data from groups engaged on the iPhone’s designs, however these designs are works in progress — not essentially the ultimate product.