You may have missed it, but the internet had a collective meltdown about the brand-new iPhone 17 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Air demo units looking scratched up in stores. We finally have an answer. And no, the phones are not, in fact, made of butter. Apple has officially weighed in on "scratchgate," and the culprit isn't a
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Ming Yeung/Getty Images Shortly after the iPhone 17 launched, we started to see a deluge of complaints that Apple's latest devices were prone to scratching. Driving this point home, some users posted photos of scuffed-up iPhone 17 demo units in Apple retail stores. The underlying message was that if even the display models looked worn
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enesdigital/Shutterstock Authorities in the U.K. recently cracked down on a massive smartphone smuggling ring responsible for sending 40,000 devices from London to China every year. The big break in the case came from a single victim who decided to track their stolen iPhone using the device's 'Find My' feature. As reported by the BBC, the
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Ming Yeung/Getty Images Every year, it seems like Apple introduces "the thinnest iPhone ever designed," and the release of the iPhone 17 lineup is no exception. The new iPhone 17 Air doesn't just boast a 6.5-inch display, the A19 Pro processor, and 12GB of RAM; Apple is also touting that the device's thickness measures a
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are Apple's first iPhones to feature vapor chambers, a component Android smartphone vendors embraced long before the iPhone maker to help cool down increasingly powerful chips. Combined with the unibody aluminum chassis that extends towards the back, covering the camera plateau and
Cheng Xin/Getty Images Apple gave the standard iPhone 17 a big storage upgrade over its predecessor. The phone now starts at 256GB instead of 128GB, but you don't have to pay the extra $100 the upgrade would have cost last year. Every iPhone 17 model and the iPhone Air start at 256GB of storage this
