iPhone 18 Pro Could Be Noticeably Thicker Than iPhone 17 Pro

[cotyledon]

At what point does it become too much? With the camera plateau this think is within .1mm of the thickness of the original iPhone and likely 2x the weight.

Until it becomes too thick to grab with two hands 🙌
I am talking about iPhone

 

[capamac]

This would be nice:

 

[Adamj53]

They have to change something so your old case doesn't work....

 

[GlassFingers]

Is variable aperture really gonna make so much of a difference? That it’s worth making the whole phone thicker?

 

[ignatius345]

Laughing as an iPhone Air user

You joke, but I think this is fine. A phone in the lineup for people who value thinness over maximum battery life, and a phone for people who go the other way and are fine with more thickness. (Don’t get me wrong, people will find a way to complain about it, though.)

 

[ignatius345]

The Air takes care of the portability issue. I think the iPhone 18 Pro should focus on cameras and battery life and not worry about portability. Maybe Apple will figure out a way to sell both phones to a single individual and they can use the same phone number and take whatever device that makes sense for them for that day.

I wish the carriers would support this. I have an old SE that’s insanely tiny and slow, and not really suitable for everyday use. But if I could switch phones seamlessly I’d gladly throw it into a suit jacket pocket for an evening out.

 

[123]

How come they understood what's good and designed the 15 Pro, and right after that went into the other direction and created every model worse than the previous one?

 

[ThisIsMike]

Every year, I TOO am thicker than the previous generation iPhone, so kudos to Apple for keeping up.

In all seriousness, I think body shaming the iPhone 18 Pro like this is inappropriate.

In real all seriousness, the Pro phones are pushing it. They are too bulky as is. This is actually why I won’t get a Pro Max. Too big, too heavy.

 

[PDavidAlexander]

Apple's obsession with thinness is irritating. We don't need razor thin phones. Just make the whole damn thing the same thickness as the camera bump on the pro models and pack it with battery, better cameras and more capability and leave the razor thin options for those who don't need the pro capability. Make it a truly pro phone and I'd be just fine with a little extra thickness.

 

[whitby]

I will be interested to see what happens to the weight. These phones are already big thick ugly slabs that are far too heavy for only marginal improvements each year and way too easy to destroy by dropping them without a case.

Unless this new size increase delivers something equally substantial in terms of improved features, I will probably wait until they have the technology to deliver the features in a lighter, smaller and tougher form. And I may be dead by the time they do at this rate 😂. After all isn’t this what this is supposed to be about, a mobile device that you hardly notice that delivers the features you need.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

at 10.9 MM thick, that means the only iPhones thicker than it are the original (11.6 MM) and the 3G/3GS (12.3 MM).

 

[transpo1]

Of course it's going to be thicker, gotta make money on new cases somehow.

Every year the same just to sell more cases.

This is the real reason.

That would be lovely – iPhone 3G/3GS seemed best designed of all iPhone models to sit in the gently curved palm of a human hand.

The curved case of the original and 3G did fit nicely in the hand but iPhone 4 was the greatest phone design of all time.

 

[GDF]

Wow - should not be getting thicker. The 15 Pro was the perfect, size, thickness and weight. Not sure why Apple keeps increasing all of them.

 

[Menthol]

Apple now needs to pair up with Levi's or Carhartt or whoever to promote bigger, stronger pockets for shirts and pants.🙄

 

[Astuces iOS]

Honestly, WE DON’T CARE HAHAHAHA 😃 Because we won’t be able to buy it, it’s too expensive !

 

[uacd]

Here you go, as a reminder!
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I am not that old🙂

 

[Menthol]

This would be nice:

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Looks like an electric shaver!

 

[AppleTO]

I am not that old🙂

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I'd kill for a new full screen phone this size.

 

[RoadWarrior56]

Here you go, as a reminder!
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That looks like the prototype of the future iPhone 22 Pro Max.

 

[uacd]

MacRumors has been obsessively focused on the rumored variable aperture, and it makes sense that a thicker chassis supports this, but I’m hopeful we’ll also get a larger sensor, and a correspondingly better picture quality. Am I right?

Come on Apple, give us a larger camera sensor.

That doesn’t matter how large it will be, it is going to be Quad Bayer and ruined by computations anyway.

24mm main camera has already big enough sensor in 17 Pro, but because it is Quad Bayer it doesn’t work in 48MP in true Bayer RAW mode, hence you will get same clarity as from 12 MP cameras from old iPhones. ProRAW can save a day or two but it is far from ideal.

Also they better focus on lens/glass design. It is already obsolete. I probably wouldn’t mind a bigger “plateau” but possibility to focus closer without macro camera crop

 

[Gengar]

The 17 Pro Max is almost a brick (to the point where it will pull down sweats, joggers, or basketball shorts), so if that’s the case, I might have to skip this.

 

[fatTribble]

Any chance they are adding more battery in order to run more Apple Intelligence on-device?

 

[Martin81]

I remember when cameras used to be flush on the backside. I'm a fan of that. Looking into a replacement for my SE3 (turns 4 next months) and the Pixel 10a a very strong contender.

 

[ghostface147]

The leaked documents didn't specify this?

 

[awshucks]

This would be nice:
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I believe Energizer made that phone already a few years ago.