Finally, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max are official, and Apple has presented both devices in its ‘astonishment’ hardware launch event.
The two new phones are, without a doubt, the best iPhones in the Apple iPhone 17 line (which also presents the standard iPhone 17 and the 17 thin air of the wafer), but what, specifically, makes them so special?
In this guide, we have gathered some of the key updates introduced for the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, from its new chips sets to its refreshingly different designs.
This story is broken and will update as more information is revealed …
New design
The most obvious update immediately, or at least the change, for Apple pro iPhones are their new designs. Both the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max look a large camera block that runs horizontally through their respective rear panels.
This is a marked change of the square -shaped camera block of Apple, which has been a characteristic of each professional level iPhone from the iPhone 11 Pro.
It is clear, then, that the iPhone 17 Pro needed a face washing, but this new biggest camera block also has a practical purpose: it houses larger sensors and more advanced image technology (more about this later).
In addition, the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max have a partial aluminum frame, partial glass, while the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro use a titanium frame.
Apple has made this change to reduce weight and improve heat dissipation, incorporating a rectangular glass area under the new telephone camera module to facilitate wireless load capabilities.
48MP teleobjective camera
Both the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max have a 48MP telephoto camera with 8X optical zoom. Yes, you read it well: an 8x optical zoom.
This is a big problem for two reasons. First, it represents an important update on the iPhone 15 PRO and the iPhone 16 Pro, which looks 12mp teleobjective cameras with 3x and 5x optical zoom capabilities, respectively.
Secondly, this new teleobjective camera brings to the iPhone 17 pro closer (and somehow ahead) to its largest competitor, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which has a 50MP teleobmic sensor with 5X optical zoom.
The optical zoom produces images of higher quality than the digital zoom because the lens elements physically move to magnify the subject (instead of trimming and enlarging it). The Teleobjective Chamber of the iPhone 17 Pro, with its 8x optical zoom, can physically move to magnify a subject up to eight times its original size.
In other words, both the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max are a shoo-in for a place on our list of the best camera phones.
Steam chamber cooling
The first underlying update for the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max is a steam camera, which is something that the best Android phones (including the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Google Pixel 10 Pro) have had for some time.
A steam camera is essentially a metal camera full of liquid that becomes steam when it is heated. This steam is then dissipated through the surface area of the camera, moving the heat of internal components such as chipset.
When a phone is too heated, the performance is generally reduced to help it cool, but with the cooling of the steam chamber, the iPhone 17 PRO and the iPhone 17 Pro Max should be able to stay cooler for longer than their respective predecessors.
Professional Chipset A19
As sure as the sun comes out, Apple has equipped its new Pro level iPhones with its new mobile silicon portion: the A19 Pro.
The last iPhone brain of the company has a six -core CPU, a six -core GPU, and is “even faster and more efficient” than the A18 Pro on the iPhone 16 Pro.
It will allegedly obtain “MacBook Pro
The latest chips sets should facilitate faster speeds, lower latency and more reliable Wi-Fi and 5G connections, than for our money, will be more notable improvements than the increase in paper power caused by the chipset A19 Pro itself.
