Leaker Majin Bu has observed one thing in 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 proper facet of the Face ID sensors to the left facet. The apparent implication is that the standard entrance sensor structure—an oval cutout for TrueDepth sensors on the left and a spherical cutout for the entrance digicam on the proper—will probably be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digicam will probably be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the proper. Display protectors for the opposite fashions present the digicam within the ordinary place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digicam on solely this cellphone, although it possible has one thing to do with inner engineering. In an effort to make a cellphone so skinny, Apple might want to shift some parts. After all, the 2 cutouts on the entrance of recent iPhones are joined right into a single “tablet” form by the Dynamic Island, and that must 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, gained’t have any affect on customers.
Over time, the iPhone entrance digicam has usually 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 might communicate to some new inner design concerns supposed to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nonetheless. Meaning we might see the identical association on future iPhones.
