Apple’s New iPhone Pro Looks Ripe for Trash Talk, If This Is Really It

It’s never easy predicting the future, but one thing the world has been able to count on for more than a decade plus is the launch of a new iPhone sometime in the fall.

Now, just a few months from fall 2025, the rumor mill concerning the next generation of iPhones, presumably called the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro, has kicked into high gear and now includes an idea of what at least one device might look like.

That’s assuming the recent pictures shared by the well-established Apple product leaker Manjin Bu are accurate.

From Bump to Bar

@MajinBuOfficial on X

Bu’s post, which he shared on X on June 24, 2025, and we’ve embedded above, includes two views of what he claims is the iPhone 17 Pro in Black.

These images look very similar to an earlier set of pictures shared by Bu back in April of the same device in a newly rumored Sky Blue color.

Like virtually any supposedly leaked image of an iPhone nowadays, these photos are most likely of non-working “dummy devices” created by third parties developing accessories for the next-generation iPhone.

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While the device’s general shape and size seem typical in the shared images, a massive new camera strip extending nearly from edge to edge is a dramatic departure from previous iPhone designs.

For whatever it’s worth, Bu’s images also align with other rumblings about a camera bar coming to the iPhone shared by sources who have a track record of accurately revealing details of upcoming Apple hardware in advance.

A story in The Information published in November 2024 shared that Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhone would feature a “rectangular camera bump made of aluminum rather than traditional 3D glass.”

Fanning Google’s Flames

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If this new design is accurate, Apple haters will immediately call out how the iPhone’s new camera bar is a clear ripoff of the Pixel’s camera setup, which, as Google states, “has become a trademark of the lineup” since it originally appeared in 2021.

However, this isn’t exactly a new point of attack against the iPhone these days.

The reality is that Google’s marketing team has already invested plenty of time and money in roasting Apple for copying Pixel software features via an often funny (at least for tech nerds) 28-part #bestphonesforever video ad series that started over two years ago.

In fact, they’ve already published a video just a month ago addressing this potential upcoming hardware similarity, too.

Considering how often Apple’s designs have been copied—including by Google—this kind of finger-wagging, even if meant as a joke, feels a bit rich personally.

But Apple’s iconic founder and former CEO Steve Jobs might’ve been of two minds on the strategy.

On the topic of competitors copying Apple’s work, Jobs once told his biographer Walter Isaacson. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Yet he also told Isaacson, “Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we [Apple] have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

The Death of the Wobble?

Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol

Setting aside debates about design originality — and whatever cameras end up living in that bold new slab — a full-width camera bar might finally fix one long-standing iPhone annoyance. At least for the case-free maniacs out there.

The dreaded “wobble” that can happen when using almost any recent model of iPhone on a flat surface could soon be a thing of the past.

For now, though, we’ll have to wait until September, per usual, to discover what Apple really has in store for the iPhone 17 Pro.

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