iPhone 17 Pro: Here's What It Could Look Like

[MacRumors]

Is this what the iPhone 17 Pro model looks like in Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 series? Front Page Tech's 3D artist Asher on Tuesday shared this image of the alleged design of the iPhone 17 Pro, offering perhaps the most polished example yet of Apple's next-generation premium smartphone, should it turn out to be accurate. The image is based on increasingly consistent reports that Apple is adopting an oblong camera bump right across the top of the rear shell, similar to the Google Pixel 9 Pro.

The camera bar is considerably larger than many earlier concepts circulating online have depicted. The camera lenses retain their triangular arrangement and are located on the left side of the bar, while the LED flash, rear microphone, and LiDAR Scanner are lined up vertically on the right side. Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser, who claims to have seen the device, says the iPhone 17 Pro has a two-tone finish, with the camera bar looking darker than the rest of the rear shell.

Questions remain about the accuracy of the renders. For instance, the flash and the LiDAR sensor are typically located close to camera lenses to maximize function and accuracy. It's not clear if the new camera bar designs are meant to be a functional change or a purely aesthetic choice made by Apple to refresh the look. It's worth noting that Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes that Front Page Tech's renders are based on a fake CAD drawing, but the larger camera bump has been previously reported by other sources, including Chinese leakers with alleged contacts within Apple's supply chain.

It has not yet been confirmed whether the iPhone 17 Pro Max will feature a similar redesigned camera module, but that seems likely given Apple's tendency to maintain design consistency across Pro models. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17 Air, which replaces the Plus model in the upcoming series, is expected to adopt a narrower camera bar housing a single camera on the left side and a microphone and LED flash horizontally lined up on the right side. Whether the regular iPhone 17 will adopt a similar design signature for the camera bump is as yet unknown.

Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 series around its typical mid-September time frame. What do you think of the alleged Pro model redesign? Let us know in the comments.

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[thiscatisfat]

This is giving me such 2005 vibes back when people couldn't figure out what else to do to keep selling more or less the same phone so they were putting these humongous cameras on them...a phone is just a phone these days, it's just another phone, nothing crazy...until another "iPhone" comes around, these little updates won't make people upgrade...ugly camera bump by the way, its so unlike iPhone and has almost no DNA of the original iPhone's design intent...

 

[antonrg]

It's slowly morphing into something else and I do not mind it. I won't buy it anyway. I wonder, though, how tough it will be around that upper glass/camera area since a lot of cases won't probably cover it. You are dealing with a large section of the back plate being potentially exposed to the elements.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I really don't know but this huge camera bar looks ugly to me. I do not understand what it is good for. From the look it cannot be hidden with a case...

The rest of the design is nice (besides the notch which I really hope too they can get rid of one day)

 

[vercordio]

Prosser's I'm-rubber-you're-glue response to Gurman pointing out it's a fake:

 

[itsluke]

It’s ugly, not Apple style. But still, the camera bump is not apple style too and here we go…

 

[arobert3434]

If they're doing this I wish they'd move the cameras in away from the edge. I have literally hundreds of photos with a finger smudge in the lower right corner from holding the phone one-handed. Usually can be cropped out without losing important elements, but not always.

 

[TVreporter]

Plot twist - that ugly camera “bump” is in fact a detachable or pop-out …

iPhone Mini Pro!!

 

[t0rqx]

Making it look like the Vision Pro to emphasise that device also exist.

 

[Smittywerben]

"Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser, who claims to have seen the device"
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's another lie from him to get views.

 

[MakaniKai]

Oh dear, that is an ugly phone. I hope you’re wrong

 

[ForkHandles]

I think that the three cameras should be in a straight line across the width. One advantage would be the ability to record better spatial video as the two lenses would be further apart, like eyes.
It also would look so ugly either.

 

[sonicrobby]

Jony Ive would’ve never allow this. iPhones used to look so gorgeous, now they are thick bricks with a bunch of bumps on the back

#MakeCamerasFlushAgain

 

[dampfnudel]

I really don't know but this huge camera bar looks ugly to me. I do not understand what it is good for. From the look it cannot be hidden with a case...

The rest of the design is nice (besides the notch which I really hope too they can get rid of one day)

Maybe some new camera component/module that needs more space? Apple wouldn’t do this unless it was necessary. Sensor Shift version 3? A new optical zoom?

 

[omenatarhuri]

More of the same sounds like. Well, I've postponed upgrading for two years already due to lack of excitement over the changes...

 

[navaira]

Maybe some new camera component/module that needs more space? Apple wouldn’t do this unless it was necessary. Sensor Shift version 3? A new optical zoom?

It needs more space to fit all of the Apple Intelligence (which is, as we know, completely necessary).

It’s also ugly AF. I hope this isn’t the real design.

 

[JtheLemur]

lol i love that this design would still wobble when placed on a flat surface

 

[dampfnudel]

Jony Ive would’ve never allow this. iPhones used to look so gorgeous, now they are thick bricks with a bunch of bumps on the back

#MakeCamerasFlushAgain

I’ll take a wait and see approach here since I know from previous renderings that the finished product ended up looking better in person.

 

[TVreporter]

Plot twist: Tim announces the rectangle is sold separately…

“The newest member of the family!”

 

[AppleFan91]

Ok, when this proves to be inaccurate, can we stop using Jon Prosser as a source, please?

 

[winxmac]

Bring back the flat back last seen in iPhone SE 2016

 

[m1mini]

this looks too bad to be true.

 

[Nibo10]

Jony Ive would’ve never allow this. iPhones used to look so gorgeous, now they are thick bricks with a bunch of bumps on the back

#MakeCamerasFlushAgain

We went from what Steve would have done to what Jony would have done...

I guess it's progress in a way

 

[Nibo10]

I actually like how this looks - and the final product always looks better.

Gives me Silver MacBook Pro vibes

 

[L92]

I don't hate it.