Recent leak suggests the iPhone 17 would possibly get a radically new digital camera island design

It has been 5 years since Apple gave us a considerably new digital camera island design for the iPhone. When the iPhone 11 Professional and Professional Max dropped in 2019, they launched the then-new ‘range high’ island design, with a triple-lens triangular array positioned inside a sq. island within the high left nook of the telephone’s rear panel. At present’s iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max follows primarily the identical structure, albeit with some refined styling tweaks.

But when rumors this week are to be believed, this growing older design may very well be set to vary for subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 17 collection. In keeping with long-time (and infrequently dependable) tipster Digital Chat Station, the iPhone 17 might characteristic a digital camera island within the form of a horizontal bar throughout the highest of the rear panel, very like the Google Pixel 9 Professional and Professional XL. The rumor stems from a picture of a steel chassis body, alleged to have come from an iPhone components provider, which clearly reveals a reduce out for a digital camera island that is been nicknamed a ‘strip runway’ design. Digital Chat Station additionally equipped a render of what an entire iPhone 17 would possibly appear like with this horizontal digital camera island form, although at this stage the lens structure is pure hypothesis. The tipster goes on to say that many new Android telephones may undertake an analogous digital camera island design subsequent 12 months, although once more, we have got no proof to again that up.

If Apple does certainly swap to the ‘strip runway’ digital camera island, it’d actually add a much-needed aesthetic replace to the stagnating iPhone design. Nevertheless, it is uncertain {that a} Apple would reconfigure the digital camera array solely to vary the iPhone 17’s look. The place of the person rear-facing digital camera modules is dictated by different elements throughout the telephone’s physique. Shifting all three digital camera modules to a strip on the high may merely be a aspect impact of altering the form of the telephone’s logic board, or making further house for a bigger battery.