Apple might use aluminum for the next iPhone 17 Pro

A new report from The Information claims that 2025’s pro iPhone might move away from titanium and instead be made out of aluminum.

The report also states that the back of the phone will be part aluminum and part glass. My guess is it’d be to help reduce weight while still allowing for a window for the device to charge wirelessly. The camera bump will shift from glass to aluminum and be larger, but there is no word on whether this will include a new overall design or just a new material.

Perhaps this will allow Apple to move the iPhone over to its carbon-neutral design process like the Apple Watch. This would offer a nice marketing angle for Apple and show that the company is committed to making its products as green as possible. On top of that, making the phone out of aluminum might make it lighter. When I review iPhones, I always love how light the regular models are, so I’d love to see the Pros get lighter to match them.

The report also states that the new thinner iPhone 17 model, maybe called an iPhone Air, will have no SIM card tray, making it unable to be sold in China and trickier for people to upgrade to in Canada, where all iPhones still have a physical SIM tray.

Overall, for phone nerds, this means that the iPhone 17 series will finally be the year that Apple updates its phone designs and could be a more exciting year than the last few since the iPhone design has looked more or less the same since the iPhone 11.

Source: The Information