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 digital camera cutout shifted from the appropriate 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 appropriate—can be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digital camera can be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the appropriate. Display screen protectors for the opposite fashions present the digital camera within the regular place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digital camera on solely this telephone, although it doubtless has one thing to do with inside engineering. So as 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 ought to be practically, if not precisely, the identical dimension on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digital camera place, nonetheless hidden in an an identical 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 could converse to some new inside design issues meant to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nonetheless. Meaning we might see the identical association on future iPhones.