- A delicious has claimed the iPhone 17 is getting a new dynamic island
- This may contain a smaller, narrower design
- However, not every leaking agrees that the dynamic island will change
The dynamic island in the iPhone 16 is a practical small area that stores information about your apps, such as hours duration and score for your favorite football team so you can keep an eye on important information. With the iPhone 17 just a few months away, however, there may be significant changes coming to the dynamic island.
We have collected this information from Leaker Digital Chat Station on the Chinese social media site Weibo. There, the poster claimed that the iPhone 17 series “has a new smart island user interface”, according to a machine translation.
Digital Chat Station did not shared more details about the dynamic island this time, but they have previously stated that it will be the smallest iteration ever in the iPhone 17 Series. The smaller design could also come to a foldable iPad and future iPad Pro, said the delicious and hinted at a much wider roll -out in future Apple products.
However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo offered an alternative option in which he said in January that the dynamic island “remains largely unchanged across the 2H25 iPhone 17 series.” Who will be correct is anyone’s guess.
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Since upgrading from my iPhone 12 Pro – with a solid, static notch at the top of the screen – to an iPhone 16 -Pro, I have become a big fan of the dynamic island. I love how flexible it is and how it makes multitasking far easier than it was on my old phone, all without preventing my experience or adding any unnecessary complexity.
Its size does not bother me as I value its applicability more than its appearance. But if Apple can shrink it down without losing any of the functionality, it’s a winning situation in my mind. It wouldn’t be enough on my own to tempt me to upgrade to the iPhone 17 series, but anyone who experiences it is likely to be happy with the result.
The dynamic island was not the only topic in Digital Chat Station’s post. The leaks also suggested that the PRO models in the iPhone 17 series will contain a “horizontal large matrix new design” (presumably refers to the rumored horizontal camera bar) and a “5x high-pixel periscope” zoom lens.
Everyone becomes clear when the iPhone 17 series arrives in September and we finally get a glimpse of the new (or not) dynamic island. It will settle the question of whether it has been shrunk down to still-smell-proportions or remains exactly as it is at the moment.
