This September ’s iPhone launch just beget a tiny minute less interesting , with reports that the antecedently rumor anti - reflective , anti - scratch screen is no longer potential to seem on the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max .
Last spring , a Weibo account namedInstant Digitalclaimed that Apple had bought equipment for making the out glass of the iPhone out of a novel “ super - hard ” anti - reflective material , suggest that Ceramic Shield would be replaced by something practiced in the declination of 2025 . But it looks like this ontogeny has n’t worked out .
MacRumors , citing an anonymous “ source with reliable entropy , ” read this project may now have been cancelled , and wo n’t look on the 17 - serial publication iPhones .
“ Apple be after to utilise the anti - reflective coating for the higher - final stage iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max models , which would have made them the first iPhones with an anti - reflective display , ” the situation explain . “ Apple ran into problems scale up the display coating appendage , and it is presently no longer a design feature article for the iPhone 17 Pro model . ”
The issue is likely a question of volume . Apple ’s provider can make the display , but not at a sufficient scale to cover even just the phone number of Pro handset the company expect to trade . It is n’t open at this point if Apple mean to persist with the project for future handsets .
In the Mac and iPad ranges , Apple extend a nano - texture show finish that boil down rumination and delivers improved screen performance outside or in bright ignition . This has n’t yet appeared on the iPhone , but an option could appear as a replacement for the cancelled / postponed labor .
Longtime Apple watcher will be conversant with theprocessby which approaching products are billed as groundbreaking when they ’re just a distant rumor , and then steadily become more and more quotidian as they approach release . But there are still more than a few interesting announcement that will make it to set up — for all the late newsworthiness and rumor , bookmark our regularly updatediPhone 17superguide .
