iPhone 17 Pro

Introduced in September 2025, the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are Apple's newest flagship iPhones and now is a good time to buy.

The iPhone 17 Pro models feature Apple's most significant Pro model update in years, with a unibody aluminum chassis and a vapor chamber cooling system to maximize the performance of the A19 Pro chip.

There's a 48-megapixel triple-lens camera system featuring a new Telephoto lens with up to 8× zoom, and the Pro models feature the longest battery life of any iPhone to date.

Starting at $1,099 for the Pro and $1,199 for the Pro Max, the iPhone 17 Pro models are more expensive than the $999 iPhone Air and the $799 iPhone 17, but they have the most advanced feature set available in the iPhone line.

The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are Apple's latest high-end flagship smartphones that Apple is selling alongside the iPhone Air and the iPhone 17. The iPhone 17 Pro models are Apple's most advanced smartphones, with a bigger display option, more cameras, and higher performance than other models.

Apple updated the design of the iPhone 17 Pro models, but display sizes haven't changed. The iPhone 17 Pro has a 6.3-inch display, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 6.9-inch display. Both of the iPhone 17 Pro models are just a little bit thicker, taller, and wider than the iPhone 16 Pro models, and that's because Apple changed the internal structure.

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max feature a unibody aluminum frame for the first time, with Apple ditching titanium to go back to aluminum. Aluminum is lighter than titanium, and it is also better at heat dispersion. The aluminum frame covers almost all of the sides of the iPhone, the camera area, and the back, with the exception of a cutout for MagSafe charging.

The camera bump is now called the camera plateau, and it is a horizontal, rectangular raised area that spans nearly the entire rear of the iPhone. It houses the three-lens camera setup on the left, and the LiDAR Scanner and flash on the right. Apple changed the antenna band location to wrap around the plateau, so there are no more antenna lines on the edges of the phone and the antennas perform better than before. Apple says the plateau provides more space for internal components, allowing for a larger battery.

The MagSafe cutout at the back of the iPhone is crafted from its Ceramic Shield material that's more durable than glass, and Apple says it is 4× more resistant to cracks. The Ceramic Shield cutout is a slightly different color than the aluminum of the iPhone, giving the iPhone 17 Pro models a two-tone look. Prior to now, recent iPhones had a full glass back rather than an aluminum and Ceramic Shield back.

On the front, the size of the Dynamic Island hasn't changed, and there are still Camera Control and Action buttons. The Action button can be set to multiple functions such as launching the camera, turning on Flashlight, recording a Voice Memo, or activating a Shortcut. The Camera Control activates the Camera app. It is touch and pressure sensitive and can capture photos and videos, as well as adjust camera settings.

There's a USB-C port at the bottom for charging, and it supports USB3 transfer speeds. You can get the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max in Cosmic Orange, Silver, or Deep Blue colors.

Apple used an upgraded Ceramic Shield 2 to protect the display, and it offers 3× better scratch resistance than the original Ceramic Shield. 120Hz ProMotion refresh rates are supported, but that's no longer a Pro-only feature. The iPhone 17 Pro models support 3,000 nits peak brightness when outdoors, up from 2,000, and there is a new anti-reflective display coating to cut down on glare. Outdoor contrast is 2× better than before. 1-nit minimum brightness is available for the Always-On display.

The iPhone 17 Pro models have an A19 Pro chip that's built on an upgraded 3-nanometer process. The A19 Pro includes a 6-core CPU with two performance cores and four efficiency cores, and a 6-core GPU. Each core has a Neural Accelerator that Apple says improves tasks like on-device AI. There's an updated 16-core Neural Engine, second-generation dynamic caching, a larger cache, and 12GB RAM.

The aluminum frame improves thermal performance, but Apple also added a vapor chamber cooling system that uses a small amount of deionized water to move heat away from the A19 Pro and distribute it along the aluminum chassis. As a result, the A19 Pro offers up to 40 percent faster sustained performance than the A18 Pro.

For the first time, the iPhone 17 Pro cameras are all 48 megapixels. There's a Main lens, an Ultra Wide angle lens, and the new Telephoto lens that supports both 4× optical zoom and 8× optical zoom, along with 40× digital zoom. All three cameras support 4K video recording, and Apple also added support for ProRes RAW video, Log 2 video recording, and Genlock support for professionals. An updated Photonic Engine uses machine learning to reduce noise, improve color accuracy, and increase detail.

Apple added a new Dual Capture feature that lets you record with the front and back cameras at the same time, and there is an 18-megapixel Center Stage front camera with improved stabilization and new features.

The front-facing camera lets you take a selfie photo in portrait or landscape mode without rotating your phone, and it supports Center Stage for video calls and images with multiple people.

The iPhone 17 Pro models have major improvements to battery life. The iPhone 17 Pro battery lasts for up to 33 hours when watching videos, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max battery lasts for up to 39 hours. Apple says the iPhone 17 Pro Max has the longest battery life ever in an iPhone.

Charging is faster than before, and the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max can reach 50 percent battery in a 20-minute period with the appropriate charger. MagSafe and Qi2.2 charging at up to 25W are supported. Versions of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max with an eSIM instead of a physical SIM have larger batteries, and Apple is expanding the availability of eSIM-only models to more countries.

Both models start with 256GB of storage, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max now supports up to 2TB of storage but it costs $2,000.

Apple is still using Qualcomm 5G modems for the iPhone 17 Pro models, but they are now equipped with an Apple-designed N1 networking chip. The N1 chip supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread, plus it improves efficiency for better battery life. The N1 chip also improves the performance and reliability of Personal Hotspot and AirDrop.

Pricing on the iPhone 17 Pro starts at $1,099, so it is $100 more expensive than the iPhone 16 Pro, but it comes with a minimum of 256GB of storage rather than 128GB. Pricing on the iPhone 17 Pro Max still starts at $1,199. The iPhone 17 Pro models launched on September 19 following pre-orders which began on Friday, September 12, at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

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The iPhone 17 Pro models can be purchased from Apple retail stores, the online Apple Store, or other major retailers and carriers.

Reviewers were impressed with the iPhone 17 Pro's updated thermal design, which features vapor chamber cooling and an aluminum unibody. Gaming was smoother with more frames per second, and while the device still got hot, it was more uniformly spread than the iPhone 16 Pro.

The drop to 4× zoom from 5× zoom was barely noticeable to reviewers, but the 8× zoom 200mm option was praised for providing more available range. 8× images in low lighting conditions had more noise and softness than 4× images, though.

Battery life was another major talking point in reviews, because the iPhone 17 Pro models offer up to six hours more battery life than the iPhone 16 Pro models in Apple's metrics. In practice, reviewers saw an hour or two longer battery life with a heavy runtime load.

More iPhone 17 Pro reviews can be found in our review roundup.

The iPhone 17 Pro models come in two sizes. The standard Pro model has a 6.3-inch display, and the larger Pro Max has a 6.9-inch display. Display sizing did not change this year, but there are some minor differences in device thickness due to a revised design.

The iPhone 17 Pro is 5.91 inches tall (150mm), 2.83 inches wide (71.9mm), and 8.75mm thick, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max is 6.43 inches tall (163.4mm), 3.07 inches wide (78mm), and 8.75mm thick. Both of the iPhone 17 Pro models are thicker than the iPhone 16 Pro models, which were 8.25mm thick.

Weight has increased, and the iPhone 17 Pro weighs 206 grams, up from 199 grams. The iPhone 17 Pro Max weighs 233 grams, up from 227 grams.

Rather than using titanium like the iPhone 16 Pro models, the iPhone 17 Pro models have an aluminum unibody casing. Most of the iPhone is aluminum, with the exception of a cutout at the back for MagSafe charging. The back cutout uses Ceramic Shield, Apple's glass-ceramic hybrid material. Prior versions of the iPhone had glass at the back, but Ceramic Shield is much more resistant to breaking.

There is a color and material difference between the aluminum frame of the iPhone 17 Pro and the Ceramic Shield 2 cutout, giving the iPhone 17 Pro models a two-tone look.

Apple only created 3 colors for the iPhone 17 Pro Max models: Cosmic Orange, Deep Blue, and Silver. Cosmic Orange is the brightest color that Apple has offered for the Pro line, and there is no black or gray option for the first time.

Despite the new aluminum frame, the iPhone 17 Pro's design hasn't changed a lot. From the front, it looks identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. There is a clear difference at the back, though, because Apple redesigned the camera bump. Rather than a square bump in the left corner of the iPhone, there's now a raised "camera plateau" that spans across most of the upper back of the device.

There continue to be three cameras arranged in a triangle shape, but the True Tone flash and the LiDAR sensor have been moved over to the right of the plateau. Adding a longer raised area at the back of the iPhone allowed Apple to include a larger battery in the iPhone 17 Pro models.

The antenna bands that used to be visible at the sides of the iPhone have been moved. The antenna now wraps around the camera plateau, a design that minimizes the antenna's visibility and increases cellular signal.

The iPhone 17 Pro has all of the same design features as the iPhone 16 Pro, including volume buttons and an Action button on the left, and a power button and Camera Control on the right. The bottom features a USB-C charging port with a microphone and speaker holes on either side of it.

Water and Dust Resistance

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have an IP68 rating for resistance to water and dust intrusion. The smartphones are able to withstand a depth of up to six meters (19.7 feet) for up to 30 minutes.

In the IP68 number, the 6 refers to dust resistance (and means the iPhone 16 can hold up to dirt, dust, and other particulates), while the 8 pertains to water resistance. IP6X is the highest dust resistance rating that exists. With the IP68 rating, the iPhone 16 can withstand splashes, rain, and accidental water exposure, but intentional water exposure should be avoided.

Water and dust resistance are not permanent conditions, according to Apple, and can deteriorate over time as a result of normal wear. Apple's standard warranty does not cover liquid damage, which means it's best to use caution when it comes to liquid exposure.

Action Button

The iPhone 17 Pro models continue to feature a customizable Action button above the volume buttons. Here's what it can do:

• Focus: Activate or deactivate a Focus mode (Do Not Disturb is the default).
• Camera: Take a photo (the default), a selfie, video, portrait, or portrait selfie.
• Visual Intelligence: Activates the Visual Intelligence feature that uses the iPhone's Camera.
• Flashlight: Turn the flashlight on or off.
• Voice Memos: Start or stop recording a voice memo with the Voice Memos app.
• Magnifier: Activate the Magnifier app to use the iPhone's camera as a magnifying glass to zoom in on small text or objects.
• Control Center: Choose a Control Center control like turning on Dark Mode or opening the Remote app for the Apple TV.
• Shortcuts: Open your favorite app, or run a shortcut created in or downloaded from the Shortcuts app, such as sending a message, playing a playlist, or controlling smart home devices.
• Silent Mode: Like the Ring/Silent switch on existing iPhone models, toggle silent mode on or off, which mutes or unmutes the ringer and alerts.
• Recognize Music: Uses Shazam to identify a song that's playing.
• Translate: There is a Translate action that launches the Translate app and start a text or conversation translation.
• Accessibility: Access to various Vision settings (Classic Invert, Color Filters, Detection Mode, Increase Contrast, Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency, Reduce White Point, Smart Invert, VoiceOver, Zoom) Motor settings (Switch Control, Voice Control, Full Keyboard Access, AssistiveTouch, Apple Watch Mirroring, Control Nearby Devices) Hearing settings (Background Sounds, Left/Right Balance, Live Captions) and General settings (Guided Access, Live Speech).
• No Action.

Activating the Action button is done with a long press, preventing it from being hit accidentally.

Camera Control

The iPhone 17 Pro models include the Camera Control on the right side. The button is used for capturing images and video, and it is designed to behave like the shutter button on a DSLR camera. There's a force sensor and a touch sensor, so while a single press opens the Camera app, there are also swipe gestures to change tools.

A sapphire crystal with a smooth texture covers the Camera Control, and it is inset into the iPhone's frame so it isn't activated accidentally. The included force sensor has haptic feedback to provide gesture feedback.

• Single click - Open up the Camera app (or a third-party app).
• Single click, Camera open - Take a photo.
• Press and hold - Launch Visual Intelligence.
• Light press - Open up controls like zoom. This button also lock focus and exposure for reframing shots without losing focus.
• Double light press - Bring up the camera preview menu to choose different controls like exposure or depth of field.
• Swipe - Swap through available adjustment options, and also change parameters like zoom, exposure, or depth of field when a control is selected.

The button includes software support, so you can also swap between Camera Control functions without having to adjust settings in the Camera app. These features can be turned off in the Settings app if you are activating them accidentally.

• Adjust zoom
• Adjust exposure
• Adjust depth of field
• Swipe through different stylistic options

The iPhone 17 Pro has a 6.3-inch display with a 2622×1206 resolution at 460 pixels per inch, while the larger iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 6.9-inch display with a 2868×1320 resolution at 460 pixels per inch.

A pill-shaped Dynamic Island is at the top of the display, and 120Hz ProMotion refresh rates are included as usual. ProMotion offers higher frame rates for smooth scrolling, video games, and videos.

Outdoor brightness has increased this year, now peaking at 3,000 nits, up from 2,000. Peak HDR brightness is 1,600 nits, and peak typical brightness is 1,000 nits. 1-nit brightness is the minimum, enabling Always-On display technology.

P3 Wide Color provides vivid, true-to-life color, while True Tone support matches the white balance of the display to the ambient lighting in the room to reduce eyestrain. There's a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, with HDR support.

Apple upgraded the display with Ceramic Shield 2, a material that offers 3× better scratch resistance than the prior version of Ceramic Shield. Ceramic Shield is glass that has ceramic nano crystals embedded in it to improve durability.

With Ceramic Shield 2, an Apple-designed anti-reflective coating has been added on top to reduce scratching and cut down on glare.

Dynamic Island

The Dynamic Island includes the TrueDepth camera sensor for Face ID and the front-facing camera. The display has a small circular cutout on the right side that's for the camera, and a pill-shaped cutout on the left side for the TrueDepth system for Face ID. Apple uses software to combine the two cutouts into one pill-shaped cutout that makes up the Dynamic Island.

Apple turned the Dynamic Island into part of the iPhone's interface, and it is used as a front-and-center information hub for notifications and other at-a-glance information from apps and services. When you make an Apple Pay payment, for example, Dynamic Island expands into a square shape to show confirmation of your Face ID scan, and when on a phone call, it expands so you have phone controls at your fingertips.

The Dynamic Island can display everything from Maps directions to Apple Music, and it integrates with Live Activities. There are no changes to the Dynamic Island with the iPhone 17 Pro models.

TrueDepth Camera and Face ID

The iPhone 17 Pro models use Face ID, Apple's facial recognition system. Face ID is part of the Dynamic Island.

Face ID is used across iOS for unlocking the iPhone, allowing access to passcode-protected apps, confirming app purchases, authenticating Apple Pay payments, and more.

Face ID works through a set of sensors and cameras. A Dot Projector projects tens of thousands of invisible infrared dots onto the surface of the skin to create a 3D facial scan that maps the curves and planes of each face, with the scan read by an infrared camera.

The facial depth map is relayed to the A19 Pro chip where it is transformed into a mathematical model that the iPhone uses to authenticate identity. Face ID works in low light and in the dark, and with hats, beards, glasses, sunglasses, scarves, masks, and other accessories that partially obscure the face.

Front Camera

The Dynamic Island also includes an 18-megapixel front-facing camera that Apple added to this year's iPhones, an upgrade over the 12-megapixel camera in the prior-generation models. Apple is calling the new selfie camera the "Center Stage" front camera.

The Center Stage camera has the first square camera sensor on an iPhone, and it provides a wider field of view that can capture more detail, so you can now take a portrait or landscape selfie while holding your phone vertically. You can simply tap on an icon in the camera app to change the photo orientation.

For group shots with the front-facing camera, Center Stage uses AI to expand the field of view and can rotate from portrait to landscape to fit everyone in the shot.

The camera supports ultra-stabilized video in 4K HDR, and there is an option to record with the front and rear cameras simultaneously using the new Dual Capture feature. During video calls, Center Stage works to keep you stable and in the frame.

The front-facing camera also supports 4K video recording, QuickTake video, Night mode, Smart HDR 5 integration, Dolby Vision HDR recording, Deep Fusion to bring out fine details, a Photonic Engine that improves low-light performance, Photographic Styles, and a portrait feature that lets you take images and turn them into portrait shots later.

The iPhone 17 Pro models include the higher-end version of Apple's A19 Pro chip with a 6-core CPU and a 6-core GPU. The 6-core CPU features two performance cores and six efficiency cores, while the 6-core GPU includes Neural Accelerators built into each core to speed up gaming and AI tasks. Apple also improved the GPU with a larger 32MB cache and more memory, so it offers 3× more peak GPU compute compared to the A19 Pro. The A19 Pro features 16MB of L2 cache for performance cores and 6MB for efficiency cores.

Apple built the A19 Pro chip on an upgraded third-generation 3-nanometer N3P process for modest speed and efficiency improvements. The chip includes a 16-core Neural Engine, next-generation dynamic caching, and unified image compression.

The A19 Pro is approximately 15 percent faster than the A18 Pro when it comes to single-core performance, and 20 percent faster for multi-core performance.

Thermal Management

Apple overhauled the thermal design of the iPhone 17 Pro models, adopting a vapor chamber cooling system. With the vapor chamber system, a small amount of deionized water moves heat away from the A19 Pro chip and distributes it throughout the iPhone's aluminum unibody frame.

Apple says the design allows for 40 percent better sustained performance for demanding tasks.

RAM

The iPhone 17 Pro models have 12GB RAM, up from 8GB in the iPhone 16 Pro models.

Storage

The base iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models come with 256GB of storage, but there are 512GB and 1TB options, as well as a 2TB option only for the iPhone 17 Pro Max. This is the first time that Apple has offered a 2TB storage option for an iPhone.

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have three 48-megapixel lenses, a first for an iPhone. There's a 48-megapixel Fusion lens, a 48-megapixel Ultra Wide lens, and a 48-megapixel Telephoto lens. Apple says that it's the best-ever camera system, featuring higher-resolution sensors.

The Fusion Main lens has an ƒ/1.78 aperture, a second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization, and support for 24-megapixel or 48-megapixel photos. There is an option for 12-megapixel 2× Telephoto images using the Main lens.

There's a 48-megapixel Ultra Wide camera, and it has with an ƒ/2.2 aperture with a 120 degree field of view. Like the Fusion camera, Apple uses pixel binning to combine the data from four pixels into one pixel, allowing for images with more detail and a lens that performs better in low light. The Ultra Wide camera is also used for macro shots.

The 48-megapixel Telephoto lens is new, and it is an upgrade over the prior-generation 12-megapixel Telephoto lens. Apple says that the next-generation tetraprism design features a sensor that is 56 percent larger than the previous sensor to improve low-light performance.

The lens supports 4× optical zoom at 100mm, and 8× optical zoom at 200mm. The 4× images are 48 megapixels, while the 8× images are 12 megapixels. With 8× optical zoom available, 40x digital zoom is now supported.

An updated Photonic Engine uses machine learning to preserve detail, reduce noise, and improve color accuracy.

Dual Capture

There's a new Dual Capture feature this year that lets you record with both the front and rear cameras at the same time for reaction-style videos. Apple says that Dual Capture is useful for speaking directly to the camera while also documenting behind-the-scenes action.

Video Capabilities

The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max offer up to 4K video recording at 24, 25, 30, 120 frames per second. HDR recording, ProRes video, Cinematic mode, Action mode, slo-mo video, and time-lapse are all supported.

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are the first smartphones to offer support for ProRes RAW recording, Log 2, and Genlock, which is a technique that synchronizes video across multiple cameras and inputs. These features are designed for professionals who want to use the iPhone for creating films.

Other Camera Features

There are several other camera bells and whistles that Apple has been adding to the iPhones over the years.

• Portrait Features - You don't need to choose Portrait mode before capturing an image to get a portrait shot. You can just snap a photo, and if there's a person or a pet, depth information is collected and Portrait mode is enabled automatically with a blurred background. This year, the feature works for Night mode shots and it supports Portrait Lighting.
• Photographic Styles - Photographic Styles are filters that you can apply to images before they're captured. Intensity, tone, and color can be adjusted, and they are optimized for skin tones. Photographic Styles can be set for all images taken with the iPhone, or they can be applied afterward. There is a new Bright style this year.
• Smart HDR 5 - Recognizes one or more people in a scene and optimizes contrast, lighting, and even skin tones for each person so everyone looks their best.
• Photonic Engine - The Photonic Engine combines the best pixels from a high-resolution image and an image optimized for light capture, leading to a 24-megapixel image with detail drawn from an image twice the resolution.
• Night mode - Takes a series of images over a few seconds and aggregates them to allow for photography in extreme low lighting situations.
• Spatial Video and Photos - Videos and photos captured in spatial mode can be viewed in 3D on the Vision Pro.
• Deep Fusion - Works in mid to low lighting conditions and brings out the texture and detail in the image.
• Portrait Lighting - Changes the lighting of Portrait mode photos with effects that include Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, and High-Key Mono.
• True Tone flash - True Tone flash is the built-in flash, and it is designed to match the ambient lighting so it doesn't throw off the white balance of the photo when used.
• Audio Mix - Audio Mix uses Spatial Audio to allow you to adjust how the audio sounds in videos after they're recorded. There are several options to choose from to cut out background noise, focus on a main person, and more..
• Wind Noise Reduction - Cuts down on the sound of wind when filming.
• Cinematic mode - A video mode that keeps the focus on the main subject that you're filming even as you move.
• Action mode - Enhances image stabilization to improve shaky handheld video.
• Panorama - Captures panoramic shots up to 63 megapixels.
• Burst mode - Allows a series of images to be captured all at once, which is good for high-action shots.

With efficiency improvements brought by the A19 Pro chip, the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max have considerably longer battery life than the prior-generation models, with gains of several hours.

• iPhone 17 Pro - 33 hours video playback, 30 hours streaming video.
• iPhone 17 Pro Max - 39 hours video playback, 35 hours streaming video.
• iPhone 16 Pro - 27 hours video playback, 22 hours streaming video.
• iPhone 16 Pro Max - 33 hours video playback, 29 hours streaming video.

The iPhone 17 Pro has a 4,252 mAh battery, a 3.7 percent increase over the iPhone 16 Pro, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 5,088 mAh battery, up 8.6 percent compared to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Charging

The iPhone 17 Pro models are able to fast charge quicker than before, and will reach a 50 percent charge in 20 minutes with a 40W or higher power adapter.

The iPhone 17 Pro models support faster 25W MagSafe charging with an Apple-designed MagSafe chargers and a 30W power adapter or higher. With MagSafe, the iPhone 17 Pro models can charge to 50 percent in 30 minutes.

Qi2.2 charging is also supported at up to 25W.

The iPhone 17 Pro models are equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80 modem chip. According to Qualcomm, the X80 features AI accelerator hardware that is able to intelligently enhance cellular data speeds, latency, coverage, and power efficiency.

In the United States, iPhone 17 Pro owners can connect to both mmWave and sub-6GHz networks, while other countries are limited to sub-6GHz. mmWave 5G networks are the fastest 5G networks, but mmWave is short-range and can be obscured by buildings, trees, and other obstacles, so its use is limited to major cities and urban areas along with venues like stadiums, airports, and other places where a lot of people congregate.

Sub-6GHz 5G is more widespread and available in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the United States and other countries. For the most part, when you use a 5G network, you'll be using sub-6GHz 5G. Sub-6GHz 5G is typically faster than LTE, especially when mid-band spectrum is used, but it isn't always the blazing fast 5G that you expect.

5G Bands

The iPhone 17 Pro models in the United States support more than 20 5G bands. The following bands are supported:

• Sub-6GHz 5G - High band FDD-5G NR (n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n14, n20, n25, n26, n28, n29, n30, n66, n70, n71, n75, n76) and low band TDD-5G NR (n38, n40, n41, n48, n53, n77, n78, n79)
• mmWave 5G - n258, n260, n261

LTE Bands

The iPhone 17 models continue to offer Gigabit LTE with 4x4 MIMO for connecting to LTE networks when 5G is unavailable. The following bands are supported.

• FDD-LTE - (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 66, 71)
• TDD-LTE - (Bands 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 53)

All iPhone 17 models can connect to satellites in emergency situations when cellular and Wi-Fi connections are not available. Apple has designed the Emergency SOS via satellite feature to allow the iPhone's antennas to connect to satellites operated by Globalstar.

Satellite communications are available in emergency situations where you can't connect to Wi-Fi or a cellular tower, and the feature is designed to be used in open spaces with few trees so the iPhone can connect to a satellite that's in the sky.

Satellite connectivity is mainly designed to allow users to contact emergency services in dire situations, but it can also be used to send text messages, update your Find My location if you're camping or hiking off the grid, and securing Roadside Assistance.

Emergency SOS via satellite is free for all iPhone 17 users for two years, and Apple has not yet provided details on what it will cost in the future.

There's a high dynamic range gyroscope and a dual-core accelerometer capable of detecting G-force measurements of up to 256Gs in the iPhone 17 Pro models, and paired with other iPhone sensors like a barometer that can detect cabin pressure changes caused by deployed airbags and speakers that listen for crash sounds, Apple's iPhones can detect crashes and contact emergency services for help.

The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max support Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) with 2×2 MIMO, and Bluetooth 6, both of which are made available with Apple's new N1 networking chip. Apple designed the N1 to be more power efficient than prior Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips that it was using.

Wi-Fi 7 supports theoretical speeds of up to 46Gb/s, and performance is better in areas with a lot of congestion, while Bluetooth 6 improves multi-device connectivity, audio quality, and efficiency.

There's an NFC chip with reader mode, and a second-generation Ultra Wideband chip. The Ultra Wideband chip provides improved spatial awareness, allowing iPhone 17 Pro models to precisely locate other Apple devices with an Ultra Wideband chip.

The Ultra Wideband chip can be used for precision tracking, such as when locating AirTags or finding friends in a crowded area.

As for GPS, the iPhone 17 Pro models support GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC, and BeiDou location services.

Starting in 2026, Apple will split its iPhone lineup between fall and spring launches. The second-generation iPhone Air, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and a foldable iPhone will launch in the second half of 2026, while the standard iPhone 18 and the iPhone 18e won't launch until spring 2027.

The iPhone 18 Pro models that are coming in 2026 could have under-display Face ID, which would cut down on the size of the Dynamic Island. There might just be a single camera hole for the front-facing camera, with the camera cutout located in the top left corner. Later, in 2027, Apple could release an iPhone with an all-screen design, featuring an edge-to-edge display with no cutouts. Apple is essentially planning iPhone design updates every year through 2027.

Apple's first foldable iPhone is expected in fall 2026, and rumors suggest it will launch alongside the second-generation iPhone Air and iPhone 18 Pro models. It is expected to have a "nearly invisible" crease when it's unfolded, thanks to a high-quality hinge.

More on the iPhone 18 lineup with Apple's first foldable iPhone can be found in our dedicated iPhone 18 roundup.