Latest Leak Gives Best Look Yet At New Design
Apple’s next flagship devices will be the iPhone 17 series, due this fall. A new leak shows what the rear of the iPhone 17 Pro will look like in more lifelike detail than before, it seems.
Apple iPhone 16 Pro: will the iPhone 17 Pro look different from the back.
The claim comes from prolific leaker Majin Bu, in a new post on X. Majin Bu has a strong, though not perfect track record. The images, which claim to show images of the iPhone 17 Pro in four different cases were labelled iPhone 16 Pro in the first post, but later corrected.
They show some familiar details, and one that’s strikingly new.
Familiar is the all-new camera panel that stretches the width of the phone, similar to the camera bar on the Google Pixel 9 Pro, for instance but bigger because the three cameras are still arranged in triangular fashion on the left. Then, on the right, sit the flash, microphone and LiDAR sensor.
What’s new here is the color of the iPhone’s camera panel. In almost every leak, these have been colored black, but a recent claim from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that in fact the panel will be color-matched to the rest of the iPhone’s back — similar to how the iPhone 16 Pro’s camera panel is transparent, showing the iPhone color beneath.
Bu’s images show phones with lighter camera surrounds, like the current natural titanium finish, in two images, while the third has a darker panel, presumably showing a black-colored iPhone.
The design has not been without its critics, not for the color as the shape, which some have described as a waste of space. It’s certainly a departure from previous models, hence its controversy.
It’s also been predicted that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be thicker than ever, and that excludes the camera bump. This takes up more space in the pocket but adds greater versatility for what the cameras can potentially do.
We can expect a lot more leaks and reports before the phones finally launch, likely early September.