Apple seems to be ditching titanium for an aluminum unibody
The iPhone 17 series is just around the corner—we’re less than a month away from the alleged official launch on September 9th. And even though we’ve had a ton of leaks and rumors, this one confirms one feature (or the lack of it) that won’t please the fans.
It seems that the rumors about Apple abandoning titanium on the iPhone 17 Pro are true. A leak straight from iPhone 17’s production line (allegedly) shows the all-aluminum chassis of the model.
The leak comes from the Korean website Never, where a supply chain insider with the tag « yuex1122 » shared photos of the iPhone 17 Pro. These images corroborated the earlier rumors that Apple is planning to drop titanium from the Pro model.
Another interesting thing we see in these photos is that the chassis wraps around the back with cutouts for the cameras and the MagSafe wireless charging coils. This could mean that the back material this year might also change and involve some kind of coating and not glass.
If true, this could see the return of metal phones and mark the beginning of a change from the glass sandwich design that has dominated the industry in the past decade.
