17 Reasons to Wait for the iPhone 17

[Sami13496]

What if I told you there are 18 reasons to wait for the iPhone 18. One more reason than 17!

 

[joloriquelme]

Probably there's enough differences between the Pro and the Pro Max, so Apple should just call the best and biggest iPhone of the series:

iPhone 17 Ultra

That would be very cool.

 

[Doomtomb]

If it's $899 it's a no-go.

 

[Plutonius]

How about "you don't need a new iPhone right now".

 

[npmacuser5]

The reason to wait, replacing perfectly good working technology a terrible financial decision.

 

[macbookj0e]

17 Reasons to Wait for the iPhone 17 implies that the aluminum frame would be a reason to wait for the iPhone 17. Makes no sense to me.

Yeah and interesting there was such a fuss with them going to titanium and here we are going back. What was that all about? Titanium too expensive no doubt…

 

[macenjoyer98]

this might be the year my 13 pro max gets retired

 

[nnoble]

We jettisoned Huawei for questionable security reasons. An eighteenth reason to wait is to watch how an authoritarian government in the USA would affect Apple security.

 

[Frankfurt]

As things stand, I will hang on to the 15 PM until the 20th anniversary phone in 2027, which will likely be the next major redesign. Not much has changed since the 12 Pro.

 

[pepsijunky]

I would take all of these upgrades going from 15 to 17, but how many will actually happen?

 

[HouseLannister]

If it's $899 it's a no-go.

You have 5 months of tariff madness until they announce a price. I think we would be lucky if there was any model below $999.

 

[ab2c4]

Seems like the typical incremental upgrades while keeping the same design. I upgraded this year so not in the market for a 17 but these things would not have made me upgrade anyway.

 

[Daalseth]

No 17 for me, my 11 went into terminal decline a while back so two weeks ago I got a 16Pro. I’ll be back in the market in a few years, longer if they bump the price up significantly.

 

[AppleTO]

Thanks but I'll stick with my 14 Pro and its best feature. Apple Intelligence permanently disabled.

 

[magicschoolbus]

Nope. Never again. Apple fleeced me on the iPhone 16 Pro Max with features I never received.

 

[Glideslope]

Not a single feature here that entices me to sell my 15 PM. Apple Intelligence continues to be Vapor Ware.

 

[urbanman2004]

So what? F**k that, I just bought myself an iPhone 13, lol.

 

[BGrifter]

Only thing these leaks are selling me on is a battery replacement for my iPhone 12 Mini.

 

[Digital Dude]

The camera is one the most popular functions on a smartphone, and consequently camera upgrades are one of the biggest reasons people upgrade.

My 12 Pro Max camera is definitely OK, but the newer phones are significantly better. The 17 Pro Max should be even better.

I’m still rocking the 12 Max—and it’s fine. Sure, I wouldn’t mind something newer, but I’m holding off. My son’s got the 14 Max, and I didn’t see much difference in the photo files anyway. 🤷‍♂️

 

[ellsworth]

I can give you 245 reasons NOT to wait for the iPhone 17.

 

[UltimaKilo]

To be honest, there's hardly any reason to upgrade to a new iPhone since like 2020. Why bother moving from a perfectly working 12 Pro to something like this? I have a 14 Pro and I deeply regret moving from 12 Mini to this brick. The new phones from Apple have absolutely nothing that would make me get rid of my perfectly working and brand new looking 14 Pro, and I won't until they make another smaller device maybe with some Pro features to make it really worth it. This years iPhone will be as boring as they were every year since 2020. There's no reason to wait for iPhone 17, and I highly doubt there will be any reason at all to wait for the 18. It will still be an ugly huge brick with a massive camera bump.

As someone who had had every phone (at least the pro versions) that is wrong. The 12P was nowhere near as good and refined as the 13PM, after the 13PM, nothing has been really worth upgrading to, but the 16PM had gained enough features worth upgrading to.

Let’s see how the 17 plays out, but I might just skip it.

 

[BB1970]

Honestly. All I want is fast USB on ALL models for faster transfers.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

I'm still curious why so many people still think aluminum is a downgrade. It's lighter and has better thermal transfer to cool the device down better, and with proper frame design, as Apple has done since the iPhone 6, you're not going to get a bendable iPhone again. The only downside I can see is that it scratches and shows dings more easily, but that's the risk you take when you don't put it in a case. There are plenty of ultra-thin cases that almost make it feel like you don't have anything on your phone.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

It may seem like standard everyday stuff to people these days, but back in my day (when I tied an onion to my belt, as it was the style at the time. Does anyone have 5 bumblebees for a quarter? Nickles had pictures of bumblebees on them) You had to sit down and look at pictures in an album.

Upvoted for the Grandpa Simpson reference

 

[thiscatisfat]

As someone who had had every phone (at least the pro versions) that is wrong. The 12P was nowhere near as good and refined as the 13PM, after the 13PM, nothing has been really worth upgrading to, but the 16PM had gained enough features worth upgrading to.

Let’s see how the 17 plays out, but I might just skip it.

Generally speaking there is little difference between 12 Pro and 13 Pro. When 13 came out I though they were joking. Looks like they were dead serious and still are to this day. I know someone with an Xs and that person still doesn't see why bother with getting a new iPhone, it's more or less the same. The same person had every single iPhone up until Xs. Apple is plain boring at the moment, boring old cash cow, used to give me shivers back in the day but now it's just this old boring cash cow Cookie keeps on milking. No innovation, no shockers, no reason to upgrade.