- More iPhone 17 CAD drawings have appeared
- A speaker design could be on the way for certain models
- It is not clear how the sound quality will be affected
Sound quality may not be the first spec you would look for when choosing a new phone, but it is still an important feature – and newly leaked schedules suggest that the iPhone 17 hand set could get a speaker insult.
These CAD drawings come from the well-known tipster @majinbuofficial, and have apparently been delivered through an internal source at Apple. They give us a good look at the bottom of the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max.
Although nothing much seems to change with the standard iPhone 17 compared to the iPhone 16, both the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max apparently get the same number of speaker holes on each side.
As our iPhone 16 Pro Review and iPhone 16 Pro Max Review tells you, the speaker configuration is currently asymmetrical on each side of the USB-C port. It looks like Apple this year is going to smooth everything.
Coming in September
3D CAD of the iPhone 17 models reveal a redesign of the speakers. The Pro and Pro Max models now have the same number of speakers per day. Page, while the iPhone 17 Air comes with only 2 speakers per Page. The speaker configuration remains unchanged on Standard iPhone 17. Pic.twitter.com/b2uvyklc5fMarch 1, 2025
The iPhone 17 Air is a brand new model this year, so we have nothing to compare it with, but the sporting only two speaker holes on each side – maybe a sign that the component -cut Apple has had to do to make it as slim as possible.
Exactly how this will affect the speaker configuration or sound quality is difficult to say based on schedules alone, but it seems that Pro and Pro Max phones may come with a few audio upgrades attached.
The iPhone 17 leaks are really starting to pour up now. Renders who have previously appeared online suggest that we get four phones that look significantly different from their predecessors, especially in terms of the camera module.
A number of different internal upgrades have also been rumored, but of course none of this is safe until the phones are officially revealed – which, if Apple sticks to its usual schedule this year, will be sometime in September.
