There have been a lot of rumors so far regarding the thickness of the purported iPhone 17 Air. It will replace the iPhone 17 Plus and join the other members of the iPhone 17 series, such as the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max.
Lately, its thickness has been reported somewhere between 5nm and 6nm. Now, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg seems to have shed light on the exact thickness. He claims the iPhone 17 Air will be about 2 mm thinner than the current iPhone 16 Pro.
iPhone 17 Air will be Apple’s thinnest iPhone yet
The iPhone 16 Pro is 8.25 mm thick, so with a 2 mm reduction, the iPhone 17 Air achieves 6.25 mm. If this is true, the iPhone 17 Air will be tagged as Apple’s thinnest iPhone yet. The iPhone 6, which measures 6.9 mm, was known for its slim design.
According to Mark Gurman, this is possible because of Apple’s own modem. So far, Apple has been using Qualcomm’s modem and related parts, which took up a lot of space. Engineers and designers have been complaining about this. Now Apple has finally decided to use its in-house modem, which leaves room for other components such as battery, display, and camera system.
This is why Apple spent billions of dollars on its own modem and is finally ready to build the company’s thinnest phone yet.
The first iPhone device to adopt its in-house modem will be the iPhone SE 4, which will likely go official in March 2025. Later, it will be used in the iPhone 17 Air, which will probably launch in September 2025.
In terms of specs, the iPhone 17 Air is said to pack a 6.6-inch display, a 3nm A19 chipset, Face ID, a single 48MP rear camera unit, a 24MP front camera unit, and 8GB of RAM. The device will feature an aluminum frame. It won’t have a physical SIM card tray and will have only a single speaker, maybe because there is not enough room to include a second speaker.
