Apple‘s iPhone 17e might be getting a big display upgrade.
The original “e” iPhone — the iPhone 16e, which launched in February 2025 — was an affordable iPhone variant with a powerful chip, but with no MagSafe and a display that featured an old-school cutout instead of Apple’s Dynamic Island.
The iPhone 17e, which is rumored to arrive in the next couple of months, will have a significantly upgraded display. According to leaker Digital Chat Station’s Weibo post, it will have a 6.1-inch, 60Hz LTPS OLED display with the Dynamic Island. Other improvements include the new A19 chip, and Face ID facial recognition.
Yes, at 60Hz it won’t match the displays on the iPhone 17 series, all of which feature a 120Hz display, but at least it will have a similar design and the added convenience of getting notifications and other info via the Dynamic Island.
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The same leaker account also posted some predictions about Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 series of phones. According to the report, the screen sizes on the iPhone 18, iPhone Air 2, iPhone 18 Pro, and iPhone 18 Pro Max, will be exactly the same as on their predecessors.
The iPhone 18 will thus reportedly have a 6.27-inch display; iPhone Air will come with a 6.55-inch display, the iPhone 18 Pro will have a 6.27-inch display, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max will have a 6.86-inch display.
The displays of the Pro models might come with one key difference. The leaker claims that the iPhone 18 and the iPhone Air 2 will have the Dynamic Island display, while the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will have an under-display camera “with new area.”
We’ve heard several rumors about this before, including one that says the Dynamic Island will be completely gone from these devices.
