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Kuo: iPhone 17 Models Won't Have Smaller Dynamic Island

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The upcoming iPhone 17 models that Apple plans to release this year will not feature a smaller Dynamic Island, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today.

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On social media, he said that he is expecting the size of the Dynamic Island to remain "largely unchanged" across the iPhone 17 lineup. His statement is contrary to prior rumors that we've heard about planned changes for the iPhone 17 models.

Analyst Jeff Pu said several times last year that Apple would adopt a "metalens" for Face ID on the iPhone 17 Pro, resulting in a "much narrowed" Dynamic Island, but it sounds like that might not happen after all.

Apple first introduced the Dynamic Island with the 2022 iPhone lineup, and it has changed little since then. There have been persistent rumors suggesting Apple is eventually aiming to have a much smaller cutout that provides more available screen space, but it is not clear Apple will be able to make that hardware change.

While the iPhone 17 models might not get a new look for the Dynamic Island, Apple is planning to make other design changes. There will be a super slim "iPhone 17 Air" that features Apple's first redesign in years. Both the iPhone 17 Air and the iPhone 17 Pro models are rumored to be getting a redesigned horizontal camera setup.

More on what we're expecting for the entire iPhone 17 lineup can be found in our iPhone 17 roundup.


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vertsix said:
Great, more years with the eyesore Dynamic Trashland. One day phones will come close to the screen design of the OnePlus 7 Pro.

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Right!? The pop-up selfie cam was genius! I can only imagine what they could do with something like that today. For someone like myself, who maybe takes two or three group selfies a year, tops, I don't care about having a front facing camera at all. But, at least the pop-up selfie camera would do the trick when needed.
 
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jarman92 said:
Couldn't care less about the Dynamic Island but LOVE the supposed design of the cameras. The bump on the 16 Pro is just ludicrous.
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There is much potential in this rumored change. A few examples...

By spreading spatial cameras out to average eye widths (not possible in the triangle layout), spatial video capture should be improved. Better grasp this now with the current phone by laying your glasses or sunglasses on the camera module now. Line up the center of one camera lens with the center of your glasses lens. Look how narrow the other lens is. Now pretend you have this across-the-back camera layout. Put your glasses where you guess the left lens might be. Could a right lens line up with the other lens of your camera across the back of the phone? Very likely yes, even for the biggest skulled people's glasses.

Since the bulk of the world seems programmed to want to capture phone video while holding it in portrait (but then later complaining about the skinny videos when watched on wide screens like TVs & monitors), capturing landscape video while holding it the way the world seems to want to hold may dramatically improve the volume of screen-filling landscape captures.

As is, those in the know, know to rotate the screen to capture landscape. Now it might be make the selection of how you want it to actually appear in software, so that the phone can be held the same way to capture portrait or landscape video. Then during playback, if the video was captured in landscape, user naturally rotates the phone to watch it that way.

Without adopting such an approach, I just don't think the world will ever evolve to rotating the phone for landscape. So those who know would be the ones to adopt to this change... which seems likely since we're the ones who have already figured out how to capture the video as we will want it in the end.

And then, of course, for the wall of "wobble" gripes, this would "stabilize" it when laid on table tops. No more wobble.
 
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Just call it iPhone 19, iOS 19, A19 and A19 Pro, skipping 17 and 18

iPhone X, iOS 11, A11 Bionic
iPhone XX, iOS 21, A21 and A21 Pro
 
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Right!? The pop-up selfie cam was genius! I can only imagine what they could do with something like that today. For someone like myself, who maybe takes two or three group selfies a year, tops, I don't care about having a front facing camera at all. But, at least the pop-up selfie camera would do the trick when needed.
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I’m of the mind they should get rid of the front camera entirely. Why marginalize the screen that gets used all the time in favor of a camera that rarely if ever gets used. Or come out with a special version that has a giant front facing camera for the narcissists. They’ll love it because it will make them feel even more special.
 
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I don't think I'll be upgrading this year after having done it many times. Their quality is just meh now days
 
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