If you’ve been following leaks and rumors recently about theiPhone 17 Pro, you may have heard the speculation that the phone could feature aPixel-likecamera bar setup. A new leak says otherwise, though.
According to known tipsterSetsuna Digitalon the Chinese social media site Weibo, the iPhone 17 Pro’s camera won’t undergo a massive redesign that reassembles thePixel 9 Pro’scamera setup. Instead, it will reiterate its current design.
The tipster says (translated via Google Translate), “my sources told me that the back has indeed changed, but the triple-camera layout is still a triangle, not the horizontal strip that is currently circulating online.” Their sources are a mystery, so take this with a grain of salt.
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The current camera layout dates back to 2019
It started with the iPhone 11 Pro and has gotten bigger since
The current triangle-camera layout on theiPhone 16 Prodates back to theiPhone 11 Pro, released in 2019. Every year since, the camera on the Pro models has gotten bigger and more powerful. There is no question that the iPhone 17 Pro will have an improved camera setup. Apple loves upping its camera game every year, but what that design will look like next year remains a mystery.
The Pixel-like camera rumors began when a known leaker namedDigital Chat Stationposted on Weibo that the iPhone 17 series would have a new camera setup and shared aconcept renderof the phone with a Pixel-like elongated oval camera bar. A report fromThe Informationin Novemberclaimedthat the iPhone 17 Pro will feature a bigger rectangular camera bump.
The recent leak from Setsuna Digital counteracts this rumor, and some of their previous leaks have turned out to be correct, such as the iPhone 16’s battery capacity and the M4 iPad’s nano-texture display option (viaMacRumors). That said, the iPhone 17 series is still nine months away, and a lot could change between now and then.
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