Next year’s iPhone 17 Air continues to get more detailed spec leaks. The latest report gives us our best understanding yet of exactly how much thinner the new device will be.

Apple has started drastically slimming down its devices, and the iPhone is next.

2024 was a big year for this new initiative. The launched in May as Apple’s thinnest device ever, then in September the debuted with a notable thickness reduction too.

This year’s iPhone lineup didn’t get the same

Apple has been granted another patent for technology that would allow it to have Face ID embedded in the display, enabling the company to reduce the size of the camera cutout.

While Apple has been working on this for many years, there are a couple of reasons to suspect that the tech may perhaps debut in the iPhone 17 line-up …

The idea of embedding Face ID emitters and sensors beneath the display has been referenced in a number of Apple patents, like this one back in 2021 :

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Next year’s iPhone 17 Air will get a lot of attention for its ultra-thin form factor . But there’s another strong contender for what could ultimately become the device’s best feature: the 17 Air’s unique display.

For years now, iPhone buyers have had a couple main screen size choices when buying a flagship model.

• iPhone Pro and base iPhone have had 6.1-inch displays
• iPhone Pro Max and Plus have had 6.7-inch displays

That changed slightly with

Although Apple typically follows a two year cycle with process nodes, with the 7nm and 5nm processes lasting two years each – it seems highly likely that Apple is about to use the 3nm process for a third year in a row with the upcoming iPhone 17 lineup. There are a number of reasons for this, which we’ll be delving into.

Technically speaking, this isn’t the first time that we’ve had the same process node for three years in a row, it’s