The iPhone 17 Air is expected to carry that forward by being “about 2 millimeters thinner” than current iPhones, Gurman has written. Other recent rumors have put it between 5.5mm and 6.25mm thick, which is close to the M4 iPad Pro’s depth and less than the thinnest iPhone so far,

The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be 5.5 mm thick It's expected to replace the iPhone 16 Plus Samsung is rumored to be launching a Galaxy S25 Slim too If the rumors are right, we'll get a new iPhone model this year: the iPhone 17 Air.

A new report says the iPhone 17 Air could be even thinner than we expected. Here's what we know about this future iPhone model.

The key phrase here is “thinnest part” which indicates that the iPhone 17 Air won’t achieve this remarkable thinness consistently. This probably just means that the camera will jut out a little bit, as it does on almost all modern smartphones, but it’s possible that this could refer to a tapered design of some kind.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that previous reports of an iPhone 17 Slim being 6mm are underestimating its thinness, at least for part of the device.

Macworld In a new Medium post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo outlines a few expectations for the iPhone models coming this year. Most of it corroborates previous iPhone 17 rumors and Kuo’s own previous statements,