Next Monday takes place the presentation of the iPhone 16from which important news is expected in software and artificial intelligencebut no major changes in design which, according to what is known so far, will follow a continuous line. These will arrive next year, with the next generation of iPhone, the 17th, which will involve a restructuring of the models of the iPhone family and the launch of a variant that will be the most expensive, the thinnest and with which Apple will use the brand Air that you already use in your iPads and MacBooks.
The existence of ‘a significantly thinner version of the iPhone‘ by 2025 was revealed last May by The Information, and since then more details have been revealed about the new variant. Let’s see what is known.
According to Apple specialist Mark Gurmanfrom Bloomberg, the iPhone Airwhich has also been referred to by the media on other occasions as iPhone Slimcomes to replace the iPhone Plus within the range. That is, the catalogue that the company will present in September 2025 would include the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and 17 Air. This would be the order from most to least economical within the iPhone 17 family, with the particularity that The Air model would not be the most powerful, although it would be the most expensiveThe reason? Its design.
An ultra-thin iPhone that looks much more
Apple, which is not satisfied with the sales of the Plus model, starts from the premise that the user is willing to sacrificing some features of the Pro and Pro Max models in exchange for a design that is ‘much thinner’ and ‘more elegant than a standard iPhone’. These would be a smaller screen than the Pro Max, fewer cameras and less performance. In this last aspect, It would be positioned between the standard model and the Pro using an A19 chip. The iPhone 17 Pro will use the A19 Pro.
“You can get something that looks a lot better and at the same time has the specs of a normal iPhone,” Gurman said. The analyst Ming-Chi Kuohowever, does not give up on the iPhone Plus and believes that The Air will be the fifth model in the family. Ensures that the screen will have a diagonal of 6.6 inchesthe same Dynamic Island than the current iPhone 15, and the body will be made of aluminum and titanium. The latter is a material that Apple already uses in the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, but In the Air there will be a lower percentage of titanium than in these models.
This ultra-thin iPhone is also expected to be the lightest of all models thanks to titanium, which weighs less than aluminum, and a thickness of only 5 mmaccording to some rumors. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s is 8.2 mm, so the reduction would indeed be very significant. In any case, we will still have to wait about a year for the iPhone Air to become a reality.