Leaker Majin Bu has observed one thing in taking a look at display screen protectors for the iPhone 17 line.
The display screen protector for the alleged iPhone 17 Air has its digicam cutout shifted from the correct facet of the Face ID sensors to the left facet. The apparent implication is that the same old entrance sensor format—an oval cutout for TrueDepth sensors on the left and a spherical cutout for the entrance digicam on the correct—might be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digicam might be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the correct. Display protectors for the opposite fashions present the digicam within the common place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digicam on solely this telephone, although it doubtless has one thing to do with inner engineering. As a way to make a telephone so skinny, Apple might want to shift some parts. In fact, the 2 cutouts on the entrance of contemporary iPhones are joined right into a single “capsule” form by the Dynamic Island, and that needs to be practically, if not precisely, the identical measurement on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digicam place, nonetheless hidden in an similar Dynamic Island, received’t have any affect on customers.
Through the years, the iPhone entrance digicam has commonly shifted place. On the iPhones 4 and 5, the primary iphone with a selfie digicam, it was on the left, then moved to the middle for the iPhone 6, 7, and eight. When Apple launched Face ID and display screen notch with the iPhone X, the digicam was positioned on the left facet, the place it has remained since.
The change could communicate 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.
