Apple has announced the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, the top models in its new iPhone 17 lineup, alongside the regular iPhone 17 and all-new iPhone Air. The Pro returns to an aluminum build, adds the biggest battery of any iPhone yet, and boasts what Apple is calling a “full-width camera plateau” on the back.
The obvious change this year is a dramatic redesign of the rear camera module — sorry, “plateau” — which now stretches all the way across the body, rather than only containing the lenses. It looks just a little like the wide camera bar on Google’s Pixel phones, and funnily enough we’re already expecting to see Samsung adopt a similar design in its S26 range next year.
It’s still a triple camera within that new camera island, though there’s been one major upgrade: for the first time th