Leaker Majin Bu has seen 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 aspect of the Face ID sensors to the left aspect. 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—can be reversed within the iPhone 17 Air. The digital camera can be on the left with the TrueDepth sensors on the suitable. Display screen protectors for the opposite fashions present the digital camera within the traditional 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. To be able to make a telephone so skinny, Apple might want to shift some parts. After all, 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 measurement on all iPhone 17 fashions. A small shift to the digital camera place, nonetheless hidden in an equivalent Dynamic Island, gained’t have any affect on customers.
Over time, the iPhone entrance digital camera has usually 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 aspect, the place it has remained since.
The change might communicate to some new inside design concerns supposed to assist make the iPhone 17 Air thinner, nevertheless. Meaning we may see the identical association on future iPhones.
