The (digital) ink has barely dried on our iPhone 16 evaluate, and we’re already into iPhone 17 rumor season – with one dependable supply suggesting that there are show upgrades in retailer when Apple‘s 2025 refresh rolls round.
This comes from well-known business analyst Ross Younger (by way of 9to5Mac), who says that the 2 cheaper iPhone 17 fashions are going to get the identical always-on show and ProMotion tech that has beforehand been unique to the Professional and Professional Max handsets.
Meaning an improve to the LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) display know-how required to scale back energy consumption and help a variable refresh charge, all the best way as much as 120Hz (or all the best way right down to 1Hz) when required.
Nevertheless, whereas Younger initially predicted Face ID could be embedded within the show on the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max, he later stated that was a misunderstanding – so we’ll have to attend a short time longer for developments in that division.
Professional vs non-Professional
If the cheaper iPhone 17 fashions do certainly get LTPO show know-how subsequent 12 months, there will likely be much less of a distinction between these variants and the Professional and Professional Max – although the latter handsets could nicely nonetheless get higher cameras and sooner processors.
It additionally hyperlinks in with one other rumor we’ve heard about subsequent 12 months’s iPhone refresh: that the iPhone 16 Plus will likely be changed not by one other Plus mannequin, however by an iPhone 17 Air – maybe with a slimmer, extra trendy design on the identical worth level.
Apple has in fact already used the identical branding with the iPad Air and the MacBook Air, so it wouldn’t be an enormous shock if the moniker was added to one of many iPhone 17 fashions as nicely. Nevertheless, we’ll want to attend nearly one other 12 months to make sure.
This isn’t the one iPhone 17 rumor that’s emerged already, both: there has additionally been speak that the 2025 iPhones are going to get improved selfie cameras and a bump within the RAM, alongside the same old increase in efficiency.
