Leaker Majin Bu has observed one thing in taking a look at display screen protectors for the iPhone 17 line.
The display screen protector for the alleged iPhone 17 Air has its digital camera cutout shifted from the suitable facet of the Face ID sensors to the left facet. The apparent implication is that the standard entrance sensor format—an oval cutout for TrueDepth sensors on the left and a spherical cutout for the entrance digital camera on the suitable—will likely be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digital camera will likely be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the suitable. Display screen protectors for the opposite fashions present the digital camera within the typical place.
It’s unclear why Apple is shifting the digital camera on solely this telephone, although it seemingly has one thing to do with inside engineering. With the intention to make a telephone 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 “capsule” form by the Dynamic Island, and that ought to be almost, if not precisely, the identical measurement on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digital camera place, nonetheless hidden in an similar Dynamic Island, received’t have any impression 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 screen notch with the iPhone X, the digital camera was positioned on the left facet, the place it has remained since.
The change could communicate to some new inside design concerns supposed to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nevertheless. Which means we may see the identical association on future iPhones.