iPhone 17 Pro Reveal Highlights New Features Ahead of September Release Date

Apple has pulled backmost the curtain connected its iPhone 17 Pro, revealing a big of caller features and upgrades, including a caller design, caller camera features, vapor enclosure cooling, and more.

The tech elephantine broke down each of the latest iPhone quality during its September 2025 Apple Event today. In summation to a archetypal look astatine the thinner and stronger iPhone Air, today’s lawsuit focused connected the iPhone 17, promising that Apple aficionados tin pre-order each of the caller hardware starting this Friday, September 12, with the merchandise day pursuing 1 week later, travel September 19.

Apple calls its iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max the "most almighty iPhone models ever made." That's acknowledgment to a "heat-forged aluminum unibody" with a ceramic shield extortion that should permission users with stronger durability, arsenic good arsenic longer artillery beingness and amended performance, crossed the board.

Under the hood is that rumored vapor enclosure cooling system, which is designed to much efficiently administer vigor and support show for longer periods of time.

"Deionized h2o is sealed wrong the vapor chamber, which is laser-welded into the aluminum chassis," Apple elder vice president, worldwide selling Greg "Joz" Joswiak said during the iPhone 17 Pro conception of the Apple Event. "This efficiently moves vigor distant from the components, allowing for higher sustained performance. The vapor enclosure directs vigor strategically done the system, wherever it is efficiently dissipated and released by the forged aluminum unibody."

While much wide upgrades to things similar artillery beingness and show volition permission iPhone 17 Pro users with uninterrupted telephone use, Apple is peculiarly arrogant of the device's camera features. All 3 of its backmost lenses are 48MP fusion cameras for the archetypal time, with up to 8x optical quality-zoom. The iPhone shaper describes each of its updated camera features by saying it's "like having 8 pro lenses successful your pocket."

While the basal iPhone 17 starts astatine $799 for the 256GB model, the 256GB iPhone 17 Pro maintains past year’s $1099 terms point, with the 256GB iPhone 17 Pro Max disposable for $1199. Apple is besides offering a 2TB mentation for Pro Max for the archetypal time, with its terms sitting astatine $1999.

The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models volition beryllium disposable successful 3 colors: Silver, Cosmic Orange, and Deep Blue. For more, you tin cheque retired everything announced during today's Apple Event here.

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