Apple launched the iPhone 16 series smartphones at the company’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ hardware launch event on September 9. While the devices only went on sale in India and several other markets on Friday, details have already surfaced online about Apple’s alleged iPhone 17 series, which is expected to debut in the second half of 2025. In line with previous predictions, a market analyst says that Apple’s next-generation iPhone models will support a display feature that was currently limited to Pro models.
In a now-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter), Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (via GSMArena) that the successors to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus — expected to debut as the iPhone 17 and the redesigned iPhone 17 Slim — will come with improved displays with refresh rates ranging from 1Hz to 120Hz.
While Apple introduced its 120Hz ProMotion on its smartphones in 2021 with the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, the company’s recent models feature LTPO AMOLED displays that enable features like the always-on display feature introduced on the iPhone 14 Pro and later models.
If Young’s claim is true, the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Slim could be the company’s first non-Pro models to sport high refresh rate displays. Even the latest iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus feature 60Hz displays, while several budget Android phones costing up to five times less than the base iPhone 16 offer higher refresh rates.
While the iPhone 16 lineup offers some incremental hardware improvements over last year’s models, the purported iPhone 17 Pro models are expected to arrive with more RAM — the iPhone 17 Pro Max will reportedly come with 12GB of RAM and a vapor chamber cooling system. Both Pro models could also feature Apple’s new 2nm chipset, built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) next year.
