Leaker Majin Bu has observed one thing in display protectors for the iPhone 17 line.
The display protector for the alleged iPhone 17 Air has its digicam cutout shifted from the best facet of the Face ID sensors to the left facet. The plain implication is that the same old entrance sensor structure—an oval cutout for TrueDepth sensors on the left and a spherical cutout for the entrance digicam on the best—shall be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digicam shall be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the best. Display screen protectors for the opposite fashions present the digicam within the standard place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digicam on solely this cellphone, although it possible has one thing to do with inside engineering. To be able 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 “tablet” form by the Dynamic Island, and that needs to be almost, if not precisely, the identical measurement on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digicam place, nonetheless hidden in an equivalent Dynamic Island, received’t have any influence on customers.
Through the years, the iPhone entrance digicam has frequently 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 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 inside design concerns supposed to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nonetheless. Meaning we may see the identical association on future iPhones.