iPhone 17 Pro Max may get thicker than the iPhone 16 Pro

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in Future Apple Hardware edited March 7

A known and generally reliable leaker has weighed in on iPhone 17 rumors, and believes that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be a bit thicker, perhaps to accommodate a larger battery.

Close-up of two stacked iPhones, one black, one white, highlighting their triple-lens rear cameras against a black background.
Two iPhone 17 Pro Max models -- render credit AppleInsider



The new leak on Friday morning claims that the iPhone 17 Pro Max has increased in depth to 8.725 millimeters, versus 8.25 millimeters on the iPhone Pro Max. For scale, this is most commonly the thickness of lead in a mechanical pencil, or about the thickness of a fine grain of sand.

Not discussed in the leak is why the device may be thicker than the iPhone 16 Pro Max. The most likely reason is to increase the battery volume.

That growth of less than 0.5 millimeters doesn't provide a lot of room for more battery, but even a small increase in volume can be significant. That 0.5 millimeter increase, assuming it all goes to battery, could provide as much as another 400 mAh, or about 8% more capacity than the battery in the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

The leak, posted on Weibo, doesn't really address the iPhone 17 Pro, and instead just discusses the Pro Max. It also doesn't mean that the device will have a longer operational life, as it's not yet clear if the model will have greater or lesser demands on the battery.

The leaker, Ice Universe, has a decent -- but not perfect -- track record for accuracy. They accurately claimed that the iPhone 13 would get a smaller notch, and the iPhone 15 would get thinner bezels. They missed the ball on a reduction in size on the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

They also claim that the entire iPhone 17 lineup will get ProMotion displays.

The iPhone 17 Pro Max is expected to debut in September with the rest of the line. Rumors also peg a much thinner phone, the iPhone 17 Air, to the same timeframe.



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  • Reply 1 of 4
    apple4thewinapple4thewin Posts: 422member
    The more I see the mock iPhone 17 photos, the more it grows on me and looks normal.
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    avon b7avon b7 Posts: 8,207member
    Maybe a thicker Pro Max to make the  rumoured slim 17 look slimmer!  ;)

    For batteries they should be on silicon carbon and graphene film/vapour chamber if they aren't already. 
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    mejsricmejsric Posts: 154member
    avon b7 said:
    Maybe a thicker Pro Max to make the  rumoured slim 17 look slimmer!  ;)

    its called Marketing.
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    charlesncharlesn Posts: 1,400member
    The more I see the mock iPhone 17 photos, the more it grows on me and looks normal.
    That may be because these are the first renders I've seen in which the camera bar is just a wider version of the camera bump we have now and for that reason looks pretty "normal," one could even argue better because it's a more balanced look to have the bar traverse the whole width of the phone instead of a bump in one corner. If we're going to have a camera bar--which still seems highly unlikely to me because it begs the question, "Why?"--keeping the clear acrylic material of the current bump looks a helluva lot better than the fugly half aluminum/half glass frankenphone monstrosities that we've seen previously. 
    edited March 8
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