Leaked iPhone 17 Pro Dummy Reveals Bold Orange Finish & New Camera Bar

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro lineup may be getting a splash of personality. Reliable leaker Sonny Dickson shared images of dummy units on X showing the Pro and Pro Max in classic black, white and dark blue — plus a striking orange finish never before offered on Apple's Pro models.

Key details:

• A new horizontal camera bar replaces the square module introduced with the iPhone 11.


• Rumored upgrades include a 48-megapixel telephoto lens, improved ultrawide and a 24-megapixel front camera.

Apple is expected to unveil the final colors and specs at its September 8–12, 2025 keynote.

Apple enters its Q3 earnings on Thursday under growing pressure from U.S. tariffs, heightened Chinese competition and a delayed AI push, despite analysts forecasting 4.2% revenue growth to $89.34 billion.

• To curb U.S. levies, Apple shifted most U.S.-bound iPhone assembly to India, boosting local output 240% in Q2 and likely cutting expected tariff costs below $900 million.


• While iPhone sales are projected to grow 2.2%, service revenue growth may cool to 10.7% as rivals roll out generative AI features ahead of Apple's Apple Intelligence and Siri upgrades.

Meta has just recruited Bowen Zhang, a senior engineer from Apple's foundation models group, marking the fourth Apple AI expert to defect in recent weeks. Zhang joins Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Lab, as the social-media giant doubles down on a high-stakes talent war fueled by billion-dollar compensation offers.

Apple's AI division, led until recently by Ruoming Pang, has seen morale plummet amid reports of strategic uncertainty, compensation disputes and delayed Siri upgrades—issues that Meta is exploiting to bolster its own AI ambitions.

Apple has rolled out iOS 18.6 to iPhone users, alongside updates for iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6 and visionOS 2.6. The free releases focus on security enhancements and bug fixes, including a resolution for memory movie sharing issues in the Photos app.

Users are urged to install the updates—each requiring a few minutes to download, install and restart—to keep devices protected against potential cyberattacks. All eyes now turn to September, when Apple is expected to unveil its major iOS 26 overhaul (and companion OS 26 releases) with the iPhone 17 launch; public betas are available for all platforms except visionOS.

macOS Tahoe public beta rolls out Apple's new Liquid Glass design across all platforms—but Mac users notice a half-hearted implementation on Finder and toolbars. While iPhone and iPad embrace the translucent interface, the Mac retains only subtle shadows on gray buttons.

Beneath the cosmetic tweaks, Apple has poured effort into power-user features:

• Spotlight gains clipboard history, App Intents and Quick Keys


• Shortcuts adds folder- and drive-triggered automations


• Control Center transforms into a menu-bar manager via a new Controls API

These upgrades reaffirm macOS's role as a productivity platform.