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iPhone 17 Pro Max
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The company says it designed the iPhone 17 Pro “from scratch.” It now features an aluminium frame, rather than a titanium one.
While the main and ultra wide cameras appear to have been untouched, the telephoto camera has gotten an upgrade, making it so all three rear cameras are now 48MP. Previously, the telephoto camera was only 12MP. Perhaps more importantly, the sensor has around 56% more area as well: it’s now 23.5mm² compared to the iPhone 16 Pro’s 15.3mm² telephoto sensor.
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The larger sensor comes at the cost of a little less reach; the iPhone 16 Pro’s telephoto camera was a “5x” 120mm equiv., while the 17 Pro’s is a 4x 100mm equiv. model. However, the company uses the extra resolution to provide an 8x mode, taken from a center crop of the telephoto camera’s sensor, similar to the 2x mode for the main camera.
| iPhone 17 Pro / Pro Max | ||||
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| Focal length | Pixel count | Sensor size | f/number | Crop factor |
| Main (24mm equiv.) | 48MP | Type 1/1.28 (71.5mm²) | F1.78 | ~3.5x |
| Ultra wide (13mm equiv) | 48MP | Type 1/2.55 (23.5mm²) | F2.2 | ~6.2x |
| Telephoto (100mm equiv) | 48MP | Type 1/2.55 (23.5mm²) | F2.8 | ~6.2x |
The phone also gets a new F1.9 “Center Stage” selfie camera, which Apple says is twice as large as the previous model. While the company is a bit cagey on details, the iPhone 16 had a Type 1/3.6 sensor, which was around 12mm². Presumably, this means the new camera is around 24mm². It’s also now 18MP, up from 12, and is square rather than 4:3, letting users take landscape selfies without having to rotate their phone. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this approach; GoPro has been doing something similar since the Hero 11 Black.
On the video side, the iPhone 17 Pro can now record in ProRes Raw, which Apple says will provide even more room to edit your footage in post. You can’t shoot with the codec in the standard camera app, but it’s available in the Final Cut Camera and BlackMagic Camera app. Apple has also worked with BlackMagic to create a dock for the phone, which adds Genlock support.
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The phone is powered by the A19 Pro SOC, which Apple says is now attached to a newly-designed vapor chamber, designed to keep the chip performing well without making the phone uncomfortably hot to hold. It moves heat away from the back of the phone and spreads it out across the aluminum frame.
Under that heatsink, the A19 Pro features 16 GPU cores, and the company says it should provide up to 40% better performance than the processor found in the iPhone 16 Pro. It features what Apple says is the “biggest battery in any iPhone,” which can power up to 33 hours of video playback on the regular-sized model, and 39 hours on the Pro Max.
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