The 5 biggest changes Apple made with the iPhone | Tech News

The wait is over for one more 12 months. On Tuesday September 9, Apple lifted the lid on 4 new iPhone fashions together with the iPhone Air, the thinnest smartphone Apple has ever made.

That £999 model was joined by the £799 common iPhone 17, which as a base model iPhone will get a 120Hz refresh price screen for the first time. That tech is now on each new iPhone, somewhat than simply the Pros.

And two new Pros did Apple announce in the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. Here are 5 issues Apple modified with these new Pro telephones in comparison with earlier Pro variations.

Might as nicely begin with the most blatant change up prime. Apple has made a ‘cosmic orange’ iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max, making it arms down the most vibrant Pro iPhone ever made.

Usually, Pro fashions are boring shades of black, gray or white, with a few muted greens and blues thrown in over the years. No messing round with that orange although. In truth, there are solely three color decisions this 12 months, with darkish blue or silver your different choices.

Apple has ditched the titanium it used on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro (and nonetheless makes use of on the new iPhone Air) in favour of an aluminium unibody design for the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max.

That’s why there’s a two-tone look, with every Pro having a rectangular glass back panel the place the Apple brand is to permit for wi-fi charging, as this isn’t attainable by way of aluminium. Usually, the complete back of the telephone is glass, however now there’s more metallic back there for sturdiness and, in response to Apple, higher thermal efficiency. It’s a daring look.

The digicam bar is now the width of the telephone, which Apple says “creates additional space for internal components” and makes room for a bigger battery.

About that battery. Apple says you’ll get up to 37 hours of video playback on the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the longest promised battery life of any iPhone thus far. That’s in comparison with 31 hours in the 17 Pro and 30 hours on the iPhone 17. The razor skinny iPhone Air is rated at 27 hours.

“The unibody design creates space for a larger battery, and with the efficiency of A19 Pro and advanced power management of iOS 26, iPhone 17 Pro Max offers the best battery life ever in an iPhone,” Apple mentioned.

“And, both models can charge 50 percent in 20 minutes with an optional high-wattage USB-C power adapter like Apple’s new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.”

Apple has boosted the specs of the iPhone 17 Pro’s cameras, with every of the foremost, ultra-wide and telephoto lenses 48MP this 12 months. Apple’s line is that the versatility of these three lenses and the new selfie shooter is “equivalent to having eight pro lenses in a user’s pocket”. We’ll see! Hopefully true.

However, the 4x optical zoom is a technical downgrade in comparison with the iPhone 16 Pro, which had 5x optical inbuilt. Apple markets the 17 Pro as having “optical-quality” 8x telephoto, however it isn’t technically an optical zoom previous 4x, as an alternative utilizing cropping and digital zoom.

The Centre Stage selfie digicam appears intelligent, because it’s the first sq. entrance sensor on an iPhone. This means now you can faucet a button to decide on to shoot in portrait or panorama when holding the telephone vertically, not having to show the telephone sideways. This will help keep you in the body somewhat than all wanting off to the edge.

The tech may even maintain you in the body when on a FaceTime call, porting over smarts seen in present MacBooks and iPads.

The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max have 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch shows respectively, and each are coated in Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2, an improved materials in comparison with older iPhones that Apple says has 3x higher scratch resistance.

These screens additionally come with a new anti-reflection coating “to reduce glare”. This follows Samsung’s option to put an anti-reflective coating on its Galaxy S24 Ultra and S25 Ultra, which is superb. Hopefully it’s noticeable on the 17 Pros.

That’s our decide of the 5 issues Apple modified with the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max, which price from £1,099 and £1,199 respectively. The telephones might be out there for pre-order on Friday, September 12.