iPhone 17 Pro Has Smaller Dynamic Island, Claims Last-Minute Rumor

[klasma]

All the more reason to believe that when the island shrinks, it won’t be across the full lineup.

Yes, certainly.

 

[Agent007]

The Dynamic Island is all software lol. It doesn’t need the sensors to be visible or big. In fact, if they make them smaller you actually get more space for actual Dynamic Island space.

It was sold as a feature in an attempt to cover up the ugly FaceID area. My point is that they'll remove it as soon as they don't need to hide FaceID components anymore. I'm aware it's software - that's my point.

 

[Marty80]

I highly doubt this rumour will live to see any light. Based on the credibility of the source and on Young’s rumours, the first stage of the dynamic island removal will not be seen until next year.

My predictions are we will not see the first stage of ross’s predictions until 2027 in line with the iPhones anniversary.

 

[Reeneman]

Im curious about the new UI for the Dynamic Island. I suppose it would be more Liquid Glass like with transparency or some mix of camera use and accelerator to make its gravity more realistic, only available in the new Pro because of its new very efficient low power cores

Transparency doesn’t make sense for the Dynamic Island. It’s intended to „mask“ the black pill, therefore this can only be done with a dark black UI. If it would be transparent the pill would be clearly visible and the whole idea of this „Dynamic Island“ would be wasted.

 

[Aleh]

It was sold as a feature in an attempt to cover up the ugly FaceID area. My point is that they'll remove it as soon as they don't need to hide FaceID components anymore. I'm aware it's software - that's my point.

It would remove some features for no reason. Once Face ID is entirely invisible they could just make the Dynamic Island with liquid glass instead of pure black.

 

[dampfnudel]

This will happen, either this year for the 17 Pro, or, most likely, next year with the 18 Pro. With all the changes coming this year (much better cameras, a lighter aluminum design, better heat management, 12GB of RAM…) added to the great improvement of next year’s 2nm SoC, I think it’s wise to say that the iPhone 18 Pro is going to be a beast. I would definitely hold one more year, for sure.

By the way, fingers crossed to see a thermal camera for the first time ever on an iPhone.

The spotlight will be on the folding iPhone next year and the iPhone 18 Pro will probably be a less significant upgrade than what we’re getting this year. It will still be a great and more affordable alternative to Apple’s new flagship phone.

 

[Populus]

The spotlight will be on the folding iPhone next year and the iPhone 18 Pro will probably be a less significant upgrade than what we’re getting this year. It will still be a great and more affordable alternative to Apple’s new flagship phone.

Definitely. I agree, the spotlight will be on the foldable. But I think the iPhone 18 Pro is going to have a really nice spec bump, in terms of CPU, GPU, NPU and RAM. And for those of us not interested in foldables… a great machine to wait for.

I really hope to be wrong, but I suspect this A19 SoC is going to run quite hot, although the vapor chamber will probably offset that. In my opinion, next years A20, built on TSMC’s first 2nm process, is the better deal. Less heat, less power consumption, more compute power.

It’s a pity that I cannot use big smartphones… otherwise I would pick an 18 Pro next year. But no new iPhone for me… I’m quite happy with my 4.7” iPhone SE 3.

 

[deijmaster]

30 year Apple customer - Can't believe how boring these have now become - Let's hope Tim leaves the place and lets someone else create something new.

 

[I7guy]

But it's a feature, right?

Yep. Imo a nice feature.

Why would they make such a useful feature smaller? How will we see it? Are they going to remove this feature altogether at some point?

We’ll have to wait before we ask why they would change a feature based on a rumor.

I can't wait for the defenders when next years novel folding iPhone uses TouchID because they couldn't scale down FaceID over 10 years from X to Fold (but hey, we got bespoke emojis out of it, woo hoo).

There won’t be Touch ID on next years phone.

They'll be compelled to give a BS reason why FaceID is suddenly inferior so they went back to TouchID on the Fold. They'll cut expensive FaceID components from all future phones then claim the Dynamic Island is underutilized by developers and phase it out.

There won’t be Touch ID on next years phone.

People will still buy iPhones as perceived "status symbols" despite billions sold and their shareholders will sing their praises.

People buy iPhones because they believe it represents the best for them and for their own reasons.

That won't last forever, though.

Forever is a long time. Will last for the next several years though.

 

[kerr]

There's still an outside a chance that …

Fix it

 

[patent10021]

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