Leaker Majin Bu has observed one thing in taking a look at display protectors for the iPhone 17 line.
The display protector for the alleged iPhone 17 Air has its digital camera cutout shifted from the suitable facet of the Face ID sensors to the left facet. The plain implication is that the standard entrance sensor structure—an oval cutout for TrueDepth sensors on the left and a spherical cutout for the entrance digital camera on the suitable—shall be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digital camera shall be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the suitable. Display protectors for the opposite fashions present the digital camera within the standard place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digital camera on solely this cellphone, although it possible has one thing to do with inner engineering. With the intention to make a cellphone so skinny, Apple might want to shift some parts. In fact, the 2 cutouts on the entrance of recent iPhones are joined right into a single “capsule” form by the Dynamic Island, and that ought to be practically, if not precisely, the identical measurement on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digital camera place, nonetheless hidden in an similar Dynamic Island, received’t have any influence on customers.
Over time, the iPhone entrance digital camera has commonly shifted place. On the iPhones 4 and 5, the primary iphone with a selfie digital camera, it was on the left, then moved to the middle for the iPhone 6, 7, and eight. When Apple launched Face ID and display notch with the iPhone X, the digital camera was positioned on the left facet, the place it has remained since.
The change might converse to some new inner design concerns meant to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nevertheless. Meaning we might see the identical association on future iPhones.
