Apple's iPhone 17 Air could be as thin as the iPad Pro 13

The Information claims to have received new details about the iPhone 17 Air, which has also been known previously as the iPhone 17 Slim. To recap, the device is expected to replace the iPhone 16 Plus (curr. $977.95 - 256 GB renewed on Amazon) as Apple continues in the search to find a successful fourth high-end iPhone.

According to the new report, the iPhone 17 Air could be thinner than previous rumours suggested. While the iPhone 16 is already comparatively thin at 7.8 mm, current iPhone 17 Air prototypes are said to be anything up to 35% thinner at 5-6 mm in thickness. Consequently, the iPhone 17 Air would be the thinnest iPhone released to date; the iPhone 6 Plus has held this crown since 2014 with its 7.1 mm case.

As a result, the iPhone 17 Air may be about as thin as the latest iPad Pro 13, which comes in at 5.1 mm. Unsurprisingly, Apple is said to have made various hardware, including switching to a single rear-facing camera. Moreover, the iPhone 17 Air will miss out on mmWave 5G network support, as well as a physical SIM card slot; the latter has been true of all iPhones sold in the US since the iPhone 14 series, though.

Allegedly, the iPhone 17 Air will adopt Apple's in-house 5G modem too, which The Information expects will offer worse transfer speeds than the Qualcomm counterpart inside the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Furthermore, the iPhone 17 Air may also lack a down-firing speaker. Incidentally, The Information has revealed that a major change could be afoot for Apple's next Pro iPhones too, details of which we have covered separately.