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August is greater than half over, which implies we’re getting ever nearer to the same old September timeframe of Apple’s iPhone event. Meaning the anticipated official announcement of the iPhone 17 line. The latest iOS 26 features will come preinstalled on the brand new fashions, in addition to any extra options Apple reveals on the launch occasion. However since we nonetheless have to attend a number of weeks (presumably) till the iPhone occasion, we are able to a minimum of speculate what the brand new telephones will seem like. As with most unreleased iPhone fashions, rumors and leaks have trickled in in regards to the {hardware} facet forward of the official introduction. This is what we’re anticipating and what we are able to moderately assume we’ll get from Cupertino in September.

What are the most recent iPhone 17 rumors?

The most recent rumor from a Weibo leaker often called Digital Chat Station suggests the iPhone 17e will come geared up with a brand new design that features the Dynamic Island, MacRumors reports. In line with the submit, the brand new telephone can have the A19 chip and will have a 6.1-inch OLED show with a front-facing 12-megapixel digital camera and a rear-facing 48-megapixel digital camera.

In extra to the same old caveat — that is only a rumor and we cannot know what the precise iPhone 17 fashions seem like till Apple’s iPhone occasion subsequent month — there is a second vital distinction right here. This report refers back to the 17e mannequin that will be anticipated to launch no sooner than February 2026, if it adopted the identical launch sample because the iPhone 16e.

How a lot will the iPhone 17 value?

Apple’s announced plan to expand US-based manufacturing partners appears to offer it a minimum of some shielding from the steepest Trump administration tariffs which have already triggered worth will increase on every little thing from Switch consoles to high-end cameras to Sonos speakers. However on condition that President Trump’s commerce insurance policies can change from week to week, and Apple’s persevering with reliance on Asia-based provide chains, worth shocks stay an ongoing chance. The larger query is: Will Apple take up any increased prices, or go them on to shoppers?

If costs do creep up, Apple could select to pair it with an “improve.” Take into account this latest rumor posted by MacRumors from a leaker often called “Instant Digital,” suggesting that the default storage of the iPhone 17 line could begin at 256GB, doubling the present 128GB baseline. Whereas that could possibly be accompanied by a price increase of $50, Apple may a minimum of pitch it as a “higher worth.” That stated, the corporate doubled the default RAM of its Mac computers from 8GB to 16GB at no further value in 2024 — however that was earlier than the present Trump tariff cycle began.

When will the iPhone 17 sequence be introduced?

Most years, the flagship smartphones are launched in September. MacRumors highlighted a narrative initially reported by iphone-ticker.de that the Apple iPhone 17 occasion could possibly be Tuesday, September 9, in keeping with data gleaned from German cell phone suppliers.

It is nonetheless too early to have the particular dates; some years, Apple solely offers every week or two of lead time between sending invitations and internet hosting the occasion. However years of previous precedent present that someday in September must be when the 17 fashions make their debut. This household of smartphones will be the final to comply with that pattern, nonetheless. There have been hints that the introduction of the iPhone 18 assortment in 2026 shall be split right into a pro-tier announcement within the fall and a normal mannequin announcement the next spring.

What’s going to the brand new iPhone 17 lineup embody?

Design leaks counsel that Apple is constructing an ultra-thin smartphone, more likely to be named the iPhone 17 Air to match Apple’s ultralight laptop computer designation. Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, typically a strong supply of superior intel about Apple, reported in January that the iPhone 17 Air shall be geared up with a fundamental A19 chip and can solely have a single digital camera lens. It could additionally use Apple’s new in-house modem, which was launched in February on the iPhone 16e. Extra particulars about this improvement could leak forward of September, however that is what we all know for now.

An investor word from Apple analyst Jeff Pu indicated that the Air can have a titanium body. If his reviews are correct, the light-weight smartphone would be the solely entry within the iPhone 17 lineup to make use of that metallic; the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional, and iPhone 17 Professional Max are anticipated to be fabricated from aluminum, which is oddly a lighter materials than titanium. Different hypothesis had instructed that the Air would use a mix of aluminum and titanium, so the precise supplies is probably not identified till the official announcement.

Moreover, an August 4 MacRumors report says the inner battery pack of the iPhone Air is simply 2.49mm thick — half the thickness of the iPhone 17 Professional battery. The leak was posted on the Korean-language Naver blog, the place they present the alleged batteries of the iPhone 17 Air and 17 Professional facet by facet. The identical account claimed the 17 Air’s battery capability was a mere 2,800 mAh, MacRumors notes. (That is beneath the battery capability of present iPhone 16 fashions.)

On an identical matter, an iPhone 17 Professional manufacturing leak seems to have revealed an all-aluminum chassis, according to MacRumors. Initially posted by leaker Majin Bu, the picture exhibits a shell that has a big spherical gap on the again (the place the Apple emblem usually is) to permit for MagSafe charging. MacRumors says this might simply be a molding however notes that the aluminum body (versus the present titanium in Professional iPhone fashions) would yield a considerably decrease weight.

That very same leaker (Majin Bu), whom MacRumors classifies as a “hit-or-miss leaker,” suggests the iPhone 17 Professional can have higher wi-fi sign energy because of an up to date antenna design. The person posted a render on X that exhibits a brand new antenna system that wraps across the iPhone 17 Professional’s supposedly wider rear digital camera bump. Once more, it is a render, not a real-world photograph. That stated, we will not knock the aim of higher wi-fi reception, so we’re hoping this one has a level of fact to it.

Every new roster features a base mannequin, however over time, Apple has shaken up the number of telephones it gives. Almost certainly there shall be an iPhone 17 and an iPhone 17 Professional. Apple has additionally dedicated to the scale issues philosophy, and has been constructing an iPhone Professional Max possibility with a fair greater display screen and higher battery life; the 17 roster will virtually definitely have one as properly.

The brand new Professional iPhones are stated to have a full-width “digital camera island” on the rear, which might mark the primary time an Apple mannequin opted for that design. This characteristic will be seen within the purported iPhone 17 “spotted in the wild.” The pics, highlighted on MacRumors, present a black cased iPhone (17 Professional?) with the distinct again panel. Is it the actual deal? The twin angles lend a level of credibility in a social media panorama more and more polluted with AI-enhanced fakes, however your guess is pretty much as good as ours.

The iPhone 17 Air appears primed to take the place of a possible iPhone 17 Plus. Because the iPhone 16e was solely simply launched in February at a surprisingly high price point, it appears unlikely that there shall be a brand new addition to that decrease finish of the spectrum, the fashions that had been beforehand known as SE.

On the very least, it sounds just like the iPhone 17 Air will not take away the charging port and rely solely on wi-fi connectivity. Bloomberg stated that whereas Apple had investigated making the iPhone 17 Air with out a single port, the corporate (happily) modified plans. He additionally says that the rumored telephone can have a 6.6-inch display screen and embody the Dynamic Island and Digital camera Management button. Lastly, the worth is rumored at $900 — doubtless greater than the usual iPhone 17 however lower than the Professional.

We have additionally gotten what appears to be a dependable take a look at what the colour lineup shall be for the brand new smartphones. Macworld reported that the iPhone 17 shall be out there in black, white, metal grey, inexperienced, purple and lightweight blue. The iPhone 17 Air will reportedly have 4 shade choices: black, white, gentle blue and lightweight gold. Whereas the Air colours shall be much less saturated, the visuals for the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max will go daring. The choices for the Professional fashions are anticipated to be black, white, grey, darkish blue and orange.

On July 30, Tom’s Guide highlighted an X submit from Sonny Dickson — a longtime and usually dependable leaker of unreleased iPhone data — exhibiting “dummy” iPhone 17 fashions within the new colours that had been the supply of the aforementioned Macworld story. Whereas these are actually simply mock-ups — not actual, leaked iPhones — it is fascinating to see how the design and shade rumors translate right into a real-world feel and appear.

What’s going to iOS 26 be like?

Apple upended its numbering conventions with WWDC 2025, and can match the title of every new working system to the 12 months it is launched. So when the subsequent wave of iPhones hits, they will be operating on iOS 26.

On the design facet, the smartphone OS launched through the huge developer showcase took a contentious method dubbed Liquid Glass. Apple has been scaling down the quantity of transparency results within the subsequent beta exams of iOS 26, however it can nonetheless have a glass-like visible.

The characteristic listing contains huge and small updates. On the extra impactful facet, the Telephone and Photographs apps have been redesigned. There shall be a number of options leveraging synthetic intelligence, similar to dwell translation capabilities coming to Telephone, FaceTime and Messages. Apple can be at the moment testing a delicate content material warning for youngster accounts that can freeze FaceTime video if nudity is detected by on-device machine studying instruments. And the corporate can be launching Visible Intelligence, which can use AI to seek for parts in a picture.

iOS 26 additionally has a litany of minor, high quality of life enhancements. Group texts are getting help for polls. And for the gradual risers on the market, iOS 26 will lastly allow you to escape the tyranny of the nine minute snooze alarm.

The following iOS is now out there as a public beta. Listed here are our preliminary impressions of the Liquid Glass design and different new options. iOS 26 is compatible with all fashions again via iPhone 11.

What different merchandise are anticipated to be launched alongside the iPhone 17?

If Apple follows its traditional sample, the iPhone 17 shall be introduced alongside new Apple Watch merchandise. That will be the Apple Watch Sequence 11 (if Apple sticks to the identical naming scheme), and perhaps an Apple Watch Extremely 3 and/or an up to date Apple Watch SE. (They’re going to all run watchOS 26, after all.) Different potentialities — and that is, once more, hypothesis — may embody refreshed Apple AirPods Professional (which obtained its last big update in 2022) and perhaps new AirTags trackers (first launched in 2021).

The Apple rumor mill bought a giant shot within the arm this week because of the reported inclusion of product ID numbers in latest beta software program builds. Per MacRumors, it is a laundry listing of recent {hardware}, together with long-rumored product updates just like the Apple TV, HomePod mini, new Apple Studio Show monitor and two contemporary iPads.

After all, even when that listing is completely correct, we could not see these merchandise till 2026 — if ever. So do not count on all of merchandise to share the stage with the iPhone 17, particularly since Apple likes to maintain its star performer on the focal point.

That stated, remember that Apple has lately been having Mac-centric bulletins in late October (because it did final 12 months to debut new M4 Macs), so there’s at all times the prospect of one other shoe dropping a number of weeks down the street.

Replace, August 18, 2025, : Added new rumor in regards to the iPhone 17e probably having the Dynamic Island.

Replace, August 15, 2025, 2:05PM ET: Added new rumor in regards to the all-aluminum chassis on the iPhone 17.

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Replace, August 11, 2025, 7:27PM ET: Added a render of a rumored new antenna design for the iPhone 17 Professional.

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Replace, August 4, 2025, 5:23PM ET: Added newest battery leaks in regards to the iPhone 17 fashions.

Replace, August 1, 2025, 8:15AM ET: Added new images exhibiting potential iPhone 17 colours.

Replace, July 30, 2025, 11:08AM ET: Added newest leaks and rumors in regards to the iPhone 17, and up to date data on the iOS 26 public beta.

Replace, July 17, 2025, 4:40PM ET: Added newest details about iOS 26, doable supplies for the Air, and the colour choices for the totally different fashions.

Replace, March 17, 2025, 2PM ET: Added particulars in regards to the rumored worth and options of the iPhone 17 Air.

Replace, April 11, 2025, 3:45PM ET: Added particulars from Entrance Web page Tech’s new video that claims to disclose particulars from a leaked iOS 19 construct.

Katie Teague contributed to this story.