The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are smartphones developed and marketed by Apple. Alongside the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, they form the nineteenth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. They were unveiled during the Apple Event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2025, and released on September 19, 2025.
Both the iPhone 17 Pro models feature a new design over predecessor models and come in three colors: Cosmic Orange, Deep Blue, and Silver.
They are the first iPhone Pro models to feature an aluminum chassis rather than a titanium chassis (used in both the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro, later used in the iPhone Air) or a stainless steel chassis (used in the iPhone X and iPhone XS, and in iPhone Pro models until the iPhone 14 Pro) in response to overheating issues of the iPhone 15 Pro. They are also the first iPhone Pro models that are not offered in neutral dark or black color options.
This iPhone 17 marks the first time all iPhone models in a single generation have been manufactured in India.
The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max use the A19 Pro system on a chip. It incorporates the new Apple-designed N1 networking chip, part of the trend by Apple to reduce reliance on Broadcom. The Pro and Pro Max do not use Apple's new C1X modem found in the iPhone Air, opting instead for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80. Apple said it intends to continue adoption of its own chips going forward, but that was not the focus for this year. The base iPhone 17 Pro comes with 12 GB of RAM.
The Pro has a display (2622ÃÂ1206-pixel resolution) and the Pro Max has a display (2868ÃÂ1320-pixel resolution). Excluding size, both displays are identical to the display on the standard iPhone 17 and support up to 3,000 nits of brightness.
The "plateau camera" was redesigned for the first time since the iPhone 11 Pro, featuring a large horizontal camera bump and a 4ÃÂ telephoto "tetraprism" camera lens, instead of the previously used 5ÃÂ. The new telephoto sensor is 48 MP, allowing for the use of sensor crop to emulate an optical-quality 8ÃÂ zoom. As a result, the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have the best optical-quality telephoto lens on any iPhone (as of December 2025). The increase from 5ÃÂ to 8x allows for smoother transitions from 1-8ÃÂ zoom levels, and the higher quality sensor allows for optical-quality zoom without digitally cropping. However, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max dropped support for night portrait mode, which was available from iPhone 12 Pro series to 16 Pro series.
The front camera uses a new 18 MP Centre Stage camera with a unique square-shaped sensor, allowing the user to rotate the image taken without rotating the phone itself. The new Dual Capture feature allows the phone to take video with both the front and rear cameras at the same time.
Starting with all iPhone 17 models and iPhone Air, devices based on the A19 and A19 Pro include Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE). MIE is an always-on, hardware-and-OS, memory-safety defense that uses Apple's secure memory allocators, Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) in synchronous mode, and Tag Confidentiality Enforcement policies. By default, MIE hardens key attack surfaces including the kernel and over 70 userland processes while preserving performance. Apple states that MIE targets mercenary spyware by making end-to-end exploit chains significantly more expensive and difficult to develop and maintain.
The new Pro models introduce a new vapor chamber cooling design. This chamber is built directly into a new aerospace-grade aluminum unibody frame. Apple claims that the chamber provides up to 40% better sustained performance compared to the iPhone 16 Pro by distributing heat more efficiently from the A19 Pro chip during intensive workloads like gaming and video editing. The chamber works by using "thin, hermetically sealed chambers with a drop of water inside that cycles between liquid and gas to help dissipate heat."
Pre-orders for iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max began on September 12, 2025, and they became available on September 19, 2025.