Apple iPhone 17 Air: too bad, it would be less thin than expected

At the start of the 2025 school year, Apple will not launch an iPhone 17 Plus to accompany the iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. The Apple firm would rather plan to replace it with a more original variation and taking the well-known name “Air”.

As a result, the next generation of iPhone would benefit from a much thinner variant. But everything doesn't seem to be going as planned. Indeed, a leak of information from the production line has just raised some issues that Apple is currently facing.

In detail, the leaker @yeux1122 explains on Naver that the finesse of the iPhone 17 Air would be possible thanks to a key element: the battery. The American company's initial project was to equip this model with a new type of battery, composed of a refined internal substrate.

This choice unfortunately involves several issues in Apple's plans, including the cost of components, manufacturing quality and various technical compromises. The strategy would thus have evolved, forcing Tim Cook and others to opt for a battery approximately 6 mm thick.

However, this would not prevent the iPhone 17 Air from beating the thinnest iPhone to date: iPhone 6. The latter in fact reached 6.1 mm in thickness, while its Plus version climbed to 7.1 mm. As a result, we would not be at the same level as the iPad Pro M4 of 11 inches and 13 inches with their respective fineness of 5.4 mm and 5.1 mm.

It is still important to emphasize that an iPhone around 6 mm thick would create sufficient differentiation compared to the rest of the range.iPhone 17. The size should not change, the 7.8 mm thickness of theiPhone 16 and the 8.25 mm of the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max will clearly be no match for the thinness of the iPhone 17 Air.