Dynamic Island again rumored to change with iPhone 17

The Dynamic Island may get smaller in the iPhone 17 range

The iPhone 17 range has, again, been rumored to use a new Dynamic Island, changing how the UI elements appear for the new smartphone line.

Apple’s last major change to the top of the display on the iPhone switched out the notch in favor of the better-received Dynamic Island interface. While it hasn’t been tweaked with so far, Apple is now thought to be doing something to it for the iPhone 17.

In a Monday post to Weibo by serial leaker Digital Chat Station, a series of details about the iPhone 17 collection includes a mention about the Dynamic Island. “The system has a brand new Smart Island UI,” the leaker says, according to a computerized translation.

The Weibo account doesn’t exactly say what has changed to the UI. However, this is not the first time that the idea has been discussed.

In February, the leaker claimed that the Dynamic Island in the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be the smallest yet, through the use of a “metal meta-lens.” The component, which integrates both the receiver and transmitter for Face ID depth mapping so they use one aperture instead of two, can help shrink down the overall True Depth camera array’s footprint.

While the leaker, who is a well-known rumor source with a fairly accurate history, has talked about the Dynamic Island in the past, it’s also possible that there may not be much change to it at all.

In January, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the Dynamic Island’s size will “remain largely unchanged across the 2H25 iPhone 17 series.” This does give a little leeway for the Pro Max to be changed while others stay the same, but Digital Chat Station’s latest claim seems to apply to more than one model.

Lots of smaller changes

The Dynamic Island’s UI change is only part of the short list of changes that are on the way, according to the leaker’s post.

The rest of the list includes a mention of how the standard iPhone 17 will have a fine-tuned design, but without saying what’s happening. The Pro series will have a new-design “horizontal large matrix,” but again, there is no explanation for what this specifically applies to.

There is also the expectation of LIPO screens with narrower bezels, the use of a high-resolution 5x optical zoom camera on the Pro models, and the previously rumored camera bump changes.

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