Up until recently, it’s been easy to choose between different iPhones. But now, it looks like all the iPhones will come in different sizes. The next iPhones will be out soon, likely announced on Sept. 9 , with a Sept. 19 release date — read this for the exact schedule.
Two years ago, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro had the same screen size, and the iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro Max also matched each other.
Then, last year, the two Pro models grew. This left the regular iPhone with a 6.1-inch display, the iPhone 16 Plus with a 6.7-inch display, while the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max had 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch displays respectively.
Now, a new leak from Majin Bu on X shows the four screen sizes for the iPhone 17 series, in the form of screen protectors.
As last year, each phone will have a unique screen size, with the wild card this year being the slim phone that’s predicted and has been nicknamed iPhone 17 Air.
Seen in series, the four phones, in order of size (though likely not in price) run iPhone 17 (6.1 inches), iPhone 17 Pro (6.3 inches), iPhone 17 Air (6.6 inches) and iPhone 17 Pro Max (6.9 inches).
The Air will be the first-ever iPhone with a 6.6-inch display and may offer the Goldilocks size for those who find the Pro Max too big and the Pro somehow wanting.
Since the other three phones are similar in size to last year’s we have some concept of how they will look from the front — completely different camera panels are expected on the rear of the two Pro phones — but the Air will add a different flavor to the range.
Size, as they say, isn’t everything: it’s thought that at least three of the screens will have ProMotion, Apple’s name for the advanced screen tech that delivers, among other things, an always-on screen.
And even the phone thought to lack this, the iPhone 17, may yet include the 120Hz refresh rate that regular iPhones have so far lacked.
Finally: bezels. It’s a fair guess that there will be no change between last year’s iPhones and this. And since the Air is all-new, it’s hard to guess how narrow the frames will be.
All will be known in around four weeks’ time.