iPhone 17

With iPhone 17, announced on 9 September 2025, ProMotion and an Always-On screen reached the standard iPhone for the first time, along with a 3000-nit outdoor peak. Apple also doubled the starting storage to 256GB and kept the $799 launch price.

What changed from iPhone 16

Spec	iPhone 17	iPhone 16
US launch price	$799	$799
Starting storage	256GB	128GB
Screen	6.3-inch, 2622 × 1206	2556 × 1179
ProMotion and Always-On	Yes, up to 120Hz	No
Outdoor peak brightness	3000 nits	2000 nits
Front glass	Ceramic Shield 2	Ceramic Shield
Ultra Wide camera	48MP Fusion	12MP
Front camera	18MP Center Stage	12MP TrueDepth
Wired fast charge	50% in 20 minutes, 40W adapter	About 50% in 30 minutes, 20W adapter
Battery: video, streamed, audio	Up to 30 and 27 hours; audio not published	Up to 22, 18 and 80 hours
Wireless chip	Apple N1, Bluetooth 6	Bluetooth 5.3

For the same launch price you get a smoother screen that stays on, higher-resolution ultra wide and selfie cameras, twice the storage and quicker wired charging. The two-camera layout and the 2x view from the main camera carry over, and wireless charging stays at 25W on MagSafe and Qi2. If you own an iPhone 16, those are the reasons to upgrade.

What the 17 Pro adds

The iPhone 17 Pro launched at $1,099. For that it adds a 48MP 4x tetraprism telephoto at 100 mm, the A19 Pro chip with a 6-core GPU, a LiDAR Scanner, USB 3 at up to 10 Gb/s, ProRes RAW and Apple Log 2, a 1TB option and an aluminum unibody with a Ceramic Shield back. Apple rates it for 33 hours of video against 30 here, and it’s heavier and thicker, at 206 grams and 8.75 mm against 177 grams and 7.95 mm. Apple has since moved on to the 18 Pro, its current compact Pro as of 19 September 2026.

Screen

The 6.3-inch Super Retina XDR OLED, 6.27 inches measured as a rectangle, packs 2622 × 1206 pixels at 460 ppi, the same grid as the 17 Pro, with a Dynamic Island. ProMotion adapts the refresh rate up to 120Hz, and Always-On keeps the time, widgets and Live Activities visible while dropping as low as 1Hz. Brightness runs from 1 nit at its dimmest to 1000 nits typical, 1600 for HDR and 3000 outdoors, under an anti-reflective coating.

The aluminum design comes in black, white, mist blue, sage or lavender, with a color-infused glass back, and Apple rates it IP68, for 30 minutes as deep as 6 meters.

Cameras

The 48MP Dual Fusion system pairs a 48MP Fusion Main (26 mm, ƒ/1.6, sensor-shift stabilization) with a 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide (13 mm, ƒ/2.2, 120 degrees, Hybrid Focus Pixels), and both save 24MP or 48MP photos. The 2x Telephoto is a 12MP optical-quality view from the main camera at 52 mm, and digital zoom reaches 10x.

The front camera changes most. It’s an 18MP Center Stage camera at ƒ/1.9 with autofocus, on what Apple calls the first square front sensor in an iPhone, so you can tap to zoom out or rotate the shot, and Center Stage works in photos and video calls. Face ID uses the same TrueDepth module.

Video tops out at 4K60 Dolby Vision. Dual Capture and Cinematic mode both record in 4K at 30 fps, Action mode runs at 2.8K and 60 fps, spatial video is 1080p at 30 fps, and slow motion is 1080p at 120 or 240 fps.

Battery and charging

Apple rates iPhone 17 for up to 30 hours of video and 27 of streaming, eight and nine hours more than iPhone 16. Charging got quicker too: a 40W or higher adapter takes it to 50% in 20 minutes.

Chip and connections

The A19’s 5-core GPU adds Neural Accelerators and hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Apple’s N1 chip runs Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 6 and Thread, alongside second-generation Ultra Wideband and NFC with reader mode. On cellular it supports 5G with mmWave and Gigabit LTE (model A3258), and location uses precision dual-frequency GPS with NavIC. With no cell signal, the satellite features (Emergency SOS, Roadside Assistance, Messages and Find My) still work. DisplayPort video runs over USB-C, but file transfers are limited to USB 2’s 480 Mb/s.

It runs iOS 26, which Apple released on 15 September 2025.

Price

iPhone 17 launched at $799 in the US with 256GB, with a 512GB option and no 1TB model. Pre-orders opened on 12 September 2025 at 5 a.m. PDT; it reached US stores on 19 September 2025, and 22 more countries and regions on 26 September 2025. As of 19 September 2026 it was no longer in Apple’s own iPhone lineup, so check the seller’s price and the phone’s condition before you buy.