Apple considered making the rumored iPhone 17 Air ‘completely port-free,’ according to report

The alleged iPhone 17 Air, which is rumored to beryllium coming this fall, is said to beryllium Apple’s thinnest iPhone ever. But, if the institution had gone done immoderate of its earlier plans for the device, slimness whitethorn not person been the astir talked-about element. In the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that Apple astatine 1 clip planned to ditch the USB-C larboard “to marque the Air instrumentality Apple’s archetypal wholly port-free iPhone.”

The institution reportedly shelved the thought to debar sparking caller problems with EU regulators. According to Gurman, however, Apple is inactive holding onto it for aboriginal slim iPhones depending connected the occurrence of the iPhone 17 Air. Apple is expected to merchandise 4 iPhones this year, successful enactment with its strategy of the past fewer years, with the 1 presently nicknamed the iPhone 17 Air being astir 2 millimeters thinner than the rest. Leaker Sonny Dickson this play shared a bid of photos said to beryllium of iPhone 17 dummies, showing conscionable however slim the Air could look alongside the remainder of the family.

Gurman reports that the iPhone 17 Air volition beryllium priced astatine astir $900, sitting betwixt the entry-level iPhone 17 and the 2 higher-end models with akin artillery beingness to what we’re already utilized to, a astir 6.6-inch screen, Dynamic Island and the Camera Control button. Of course, nothing’s been confirmed officially yet, but the iPhone 17 rumors and leaks are definite to support coming implicit the adjacent fewer months.