With Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup anticipated to reach in September, rumors are heating up about all the pieces from the chips inside to the supplies outdoors. We’ve already seen just a few of the standard shade predictions for this 12 months’s fashions, however now a brand new rumor means that Apple might need one thing of a curveball in thoughts.
Just lately, a collection of purported lens covers from the complete iPhone 17 lineup hinted on the shades we’d see for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional, and new “iPhone 17 Air” fashions. Though the colours proven gained’t essentially correspond on to the advertising names, what’s most notable is that they recommend Apple might be planning to launch the iPhone 17 Professional in 5 colorways this 12 months, as a substitute of the standard 4.
Because the creation of the iPhone Professional lineup in 2019, Apple has historically provided its flagship fashions in three impartial shades — variants of black, silver, and gold or white, joined by a single distinctive shade. That started with Midnight Inexperienced for the iPhone 11 Professional, and most not too long ago culminated in Desert Titanium for the iPhone 16 Professional.
Through the years, we’ve solely had a fifth possibility as soon as, nevertheless it wasn’t out there at launch. The iPhone 13 Professional got here out in gold, silver, graphite, and Sierra Blue, however Apple shocked us just a few months later when it added Alpine Inexperienced to the lineup mid-cycle.
In a shock twist, this 12 months’s iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max may are available in variations of black, grey, silver, darkish blue, and an orange shade, assuming the leaked lens covers precisely replicate Apple’s plans. Gold is notably absent right here, however Apple deserted that end when it switched to titanium with the iPhone 15 Professional in 2023, opting as a substitute for White Titanium, which has been the norm for the previous two years.
It’s laborious to find out what the neutrals might be from the lens covers, because the silver one may nonetheless characterize the White Titanium. Nonetheless, Apple can also be anticipated to desert titanium for its Professional fashions this 12 months in favor of aluminum. That might be a primary for its highest-end fashions, however rumor has it that titanium might be unique to the brand new “iPhone 17 Air.”
That change in supplies introduces one other variable into the colours we’d see, however a brand new rumor suggests Apple may have one thing notably daring in thoughts.
In a current Weibo submit, leaker Instantaneous Digital (also called Setsuna Digital) claims that the iPhone 17 Professional will function a particular shade scheme designed to herald the arrival of Apple’s new iOS 26 Liquid Glass design.
The leaker acknowledges they haven’t seen the colour, however have solely heard about it. They are saying it’s anticipated to be primarily white, however could have “totally different results below totally different gentle,” based on a machine-translated model of the Chinese language submit.
Instantaneous Digital has precisely leaked shade data previously, together with the yellow iPhone 14. Nonetheless, their observe file isn’t excellent, so except we hear additional corroboration, it will be greatest to take this one with a grain of salt for now.
Some confusion persists concerning the variety of colours we’ll see. Whereas a number of sources are aligning on the darkish blue and copper orange, there’s disagreement on whether or not we’ll see 5 colours or solely 4. Earlier this week, Filipe Esposito reported at Macworld that unbiased sources had confirmed to them that the 5 colours shared by Sonny Dickson’s digicam lens covers have been certainly correct.
This was backed up by “an inner doc with the Pantone colours” that Apple used as a reference, which Esposito listed as Pantone 19-4025 TPG Temper Indigo and Pantone 1501243 TCX Papaya for the darkish blue and orange fashions, respectively.
As the colour chips above recommend, the blue will probably be similar to the Blue Titanium shade of the iPhone 15 Professional. Nonetheless, Macworld’s supply says that the orange could have a extra “fluorescent” look.
Leaker Majin Bu provides a barely dissenting opinion on the variety of shades we are able to count on to see. Whereas they affirm the orange and blue, their sources say these might be joined by solely black and silver, slightly than the black, white, and grey variants that Macworld has been informed are coming, that are supposedly the identical as these discovered on the iPhone 16 Professional.
In fact, there’s a effective line between these shades, and the change to aluminum may change the equation. The grey and white shades, often known as Pure Titanium and White Titanium, respectively, have been a product of Apple’s titanium years; the chrome steel fashions that got here earlier than have been shades of black, silver, and gold.
Nonetheless, Majin Bu doesn’t contemplate this to be the most recent phrase. “There may nonetheless be a shock,” Bu says, as “Apple is presently testing one other shade for its units.” This might be the identical Liquid Glass shade that Instantaneous Digital shared on Weibo, which looks as if it would fill within the white variant that’s lacking from Bu’s checklist.
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