iPhone 17 Pro Expected to Have Major Camera Overhaul in Six Years

The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max, released in 2019, were the first models to feature three rear cameras. While the lenses have grown larger in subsequent iPhone models, the design of the rear camera system has largely remained the same.

Next year, with the release of the iPhone 17 Pro models, that might finally change. According to a claim in this week’s Information, the iPhone 17 Pro variants would reportedly include an aluminum “larger rectangular camera bump” instead of a glass one.

According to the report:

The back of the Pro and Pro Max models will feature a new part-aluminum, part-glass design. The top of the back will comprise a larger rectangular camera bump made of aluminum rather than traditional 3D glass. The bottom half will remain glass to accommodate wireless charging, two people said.

In September 2025, Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 series. At that point, it would have been six years since the last Pro model from Apple did not feature a square camera bump in the upper left corner, and the iPhone 17 models would be the first such departure. It seems like the rear of the iPhone 17 Pro will be drastically different from past models.

The iPhone 17 Pro is said to have a front camera with 24 megapixels, a 48-megapixel telephoto camera, and an extra 12 GB of RAM.