- A new rumor suggests that the iPhone 17 Pro could have a very different design from what most leaks have suggested so far
- However, the source has mixed history, and we are not convinced
- We have also heard again that the iPhone 17 Pro Max could have a dynamic island smaller than its predecessor
One thing that most leaks iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max seem to agree, is that the design will change, with several sources suggesting that the phone will have a pixel type camera bar and A two -tone back. Now, however, another possible conception has appeared.
In its program YouTube Tech Tech Front Page, Jon Prosser, a leak with a mixed assessment, showed a strange iPhone 17 camera arrangement, with lenses organized in the same triangular motif, as on the iPhone 16 pro, But they are housed on a large island of black camera, with an empty space in the middle and the flash on the right. You can see what it looks like below.
It is a strange design, probably ugly, and which does not quite correspond to the design leaks of the previous iPhone 17 series, although there are similarities. The leaks at the same time and the previous leaks showed a camera bar performing the whole width of the phone, but the bar was much narrower in the previous leaks, which means that the lentils should have run horizontally along it .
We would say that the previous leaks are more beautiful, but as Prosser notes it in the video, they have a problem, because having lenses organized horizontally along the bar could hinder the components of the identification of the phone. He therefore thinks that for Apple to have a horizontal camera bar, it should be housed further in the back of the phone, is more like the one he shows here.
According to the sources of prosser, it is this last conception that Apple really uses, but despite the prosser claims, we take this with a serious side of the salt. As mentioned, Prosser has mixed history for leaks, and this design looks like a previous sketch that was shared by Majin Bu – another leak with a mixed assessment – and what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a much better success for Breaking Apple News rupture, says “false”.
The “IPhone 17 pro” rendering on YouTube this evening seems to be based on this false sketch at the end of January. https://t.co/npmblfnhzyFebruary 14, 2025
To further complicate things, the fact that Apple may well have prototypes in several conceptions, it is therefore not impossible that all these leaks are correct, within the framework of Apple can test these ideas, but which, if the ‘One of them will be used for the final design of the iPhone 17 Pro remains to be seen.
For the moment, we are skeptical about the claims of prosser because they disagree with most sources, but it is not impossible that this is what we will see, and that would at least be like a Google Pixel .
Also change in advance
And although it is above all the back of the iPhone 17 Pro – and probably also the iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro Max – which will probably change, there can also be changes to the front of the iPhone 17 PRO max, with a digital leak The cat station (via GSMARENA) saying that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have a dynamic island smaller than its predecessor.
This will be done apparently by reducing the size of the components, and this is not the first time that we have heard that a smaller dynamic island could be planned – although all the sources are not suitable that the dynamic island will be Smaller, so that too we take with a pinch of salt.
Interestingly, however, the digital cat station added that the same smaller dynamic island design will also be used with the foldable iPad when Apple launches one, and with a future iPad Pro model. Thus, Apple could change the conceptions of a lot of its products.
