iPhone 17 Pro: Every New Feature We Know

Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event is Sept. 9, 2025 and we anticipate to see new iPhone fashions just like the iPhone 17 Air. However in keeping with rumors and leaks the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro 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 price $1,199, $200 greater than the iPhone 16 Pro, however can have twice as a lot storage: 256GB as a substitute of the usual 128GB. The entry-level iPhone 17 Professional Max may also have 256GB, however the value 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 website Weibo, as reported by MacRumors. The photograph reveals an unfinished aluminum body with cutouts for the cameras and a full-body large digital camera bump (that traces up with different rumors). It is not possible 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 might be altering the iPhone Professional fashions’ body from titanium to aluminum, which is far lighter.

Though hypothesis about an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air has hogged the highlight, the Professional fashions are inclined to have extra upgraded options. Along with the digital camera, the Professional might get a surprising new color and the much-coveted scratch-resistant, antireflective display. 

There’s even a rumored video of the iPhone 17 Professional posted from the X account @skyfops, though there is no 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 possible 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 to date. 

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

The iPhone 17 Professional’s digital camera 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 transferring lens might enable steady optical zoom at numerous focal lengths, in keeping 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 digital camera zoom lens. Whereas Apple could not use the very same know-how as Sony’s, Holland notes, it might adapt a few of it for the iPhone 17 Professional.

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

In January, Bu posted a leaked image on X suggesting that the telephone might characteristic a pill-shaped camera bar that appears quite a bit just like the digital camera bar on Google’s Pixel 9 telephone.

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

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

Each confirmed horizontal digital camera bars for the iPhone 17 Professional fashions that hold the stacked lens structure. 

Pu wrote in March that the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max will characteristic a 48-megapixel telephoto rear camera, up from 12 megapixels on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. That may 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 experiences that the front-facing digital camera will likely be upgraded from 12 megapixels on the iPhone 16 to 24 megapixels on all iPhone 17 fashions.

Front Page Tech reported in April that the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max may additionally add a built-in video characteristic that lets you document with the entrance and rear cameras concurrently. The characteristic would allow you to overlay a shot of your face over an outward-facing video. A video improve from the already stellar iPhone 16 Pro might add some severe worth for video creators considering the iPhone 17 Pro.

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Professional shows might get an antireflective improve

On July 16, MacRumors cited a “dependable supply” in reporting that the Professional and Professional Max might get a scratch-resistant antireflective show, reversing itself on earlier experiences that Apple needed to scrap plans attributable to scaling points. If the most recent rumor proves true, the upgrade from Apple’s Ceramic Shield show might show an attractive characteristic for the Professional and Professional Max. 

Holland referred to as the antireflective show one of many best attributes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. 

Apple Insider reported in Could that the iPhone 17 could get a larger display than the iPhone 16. DSCC founder and Counterpoint Research VP Ross Young posted on X that the bottom iPhone 17 will likely be 6.3 inches, an improve from the iPhone 16’s 6.1-inch show. In concept, meaning the iPhone 17 would have the identical display measurement 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 newest rumors concerning the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max design embrace colourful developments and a brand new body composition.

Orange among the many Professional colour lineup

Rumors of a brand new colour 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 might get a sky blue possibility. 

However on July 14, Bu posted that Apple is ditching sky blue for the Pro Models, 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 said that one of many colours is “associated to the liquid glass design of iOS 26,” saying it could be white however with completely different visible results relying on which mild it was in. 

For reference, the iPhone 16 and Plus made a splash final yr after they debuted pink, teal and ultramarine colour choices, alongside the usual white and black. The iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max launched a brand new colour, 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 colour might provide an thrilling new search for the Professional.

Apple emblem transferring decrease

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

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

Improved audio high quality

On June 2, wccftech, mentioned the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max would get longer earpieces, citing a publish on X from @duanrui1205. In concept, that might sign improved audio readability. On the Worldwide Developers Conference later in June, Apple mentioned audio high quality will enhance with software program updates in AirPods with H2 chipsets. CNET acquired to study firsthand how Apple tests, calibrates and tunes the audio (and video) on an iPhone. Further enhancements in audio high quality might doubtlessly elevate an already spectacular characteristic.

Extra RAM for iPhone 17 lineup

Apple Intelligence and AI are prone to play extra distinguished 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 mentioned the iPhone 17 Air and Professional fashions would get that increased 12GB of RAM, however not the bottom mannequin.

Contemplating that the iPhone 16 lineup had 8GB of RAM throughout all fashions, this might 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 mentioned Pu predicted that the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max will have all-aluminum frames or doubtlessly 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 measurement in query

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

Dimensions

In accordance with 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 measurement might doubtlessly make room for extra battery.  

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

New A19 Professional chip might enhance efficiency

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

Extra lately, MacRumors reported {that a} Weibo account often called Mounted Focus Digital mentioned the iPhone 17 Air will also come with an A19 Pro chip, just like the Professional fashions. However the Air would have a 5-core GPU, in keeping with the rumor, whereas the iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max would get a 6-core GPU. An upgraded GPU might enhance graphics and video rendering.

Battery life might 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 often called Immediate Digital mentioned in a publish on X, as reported by MacRumors. Nevertheless, the positioning famous Immediate Digital’s spotty document with Apple rumors. If the Professional’s dimensions are similar to the Professional Max’s, as they’re rumored to be, it stands to cause that the Professional might get the larger battery, too.

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

iPhone 17 Professional launch date anticipated in September

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

Tariffs might elevate the worth, however there are different components

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

Apple, which says it might move much of US iPhone production from China to India, has escaped lots of the tariff hikes because of a reciprocal tariff exemption list that features many telephones, laptops and different electronics that Apple produces. 

Nevertheless, all of the reprieves appear to be temporary so reciprocal tariffs might 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 publish on Could 23. Later that day, he mentioned that every one smartphones — not simply iPhones — could be hit with the 25% tariff by the tip of June if they do not transfer operations to the US.

No matter how tariffs play out, Apple plans to raise iPhone prices 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 probably keep away from pointing the finger at tariffs and incurring the wrath of Trump (like Amazon temporarily did). 

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

So sure, you must anticipate to pay extra for the iPhone 17, no matter tariffs.

Learn extra: Thinking About Buying a New iPhone? Here’s Why You Should Wait

Are new iPhone rumors and leaks to be trusted?

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