Time to buy a case for your new iPhone. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is reporting that some of the darker colors for the iPhone 17 Pro models and the iPhone Air are picking up marks and scratches far more easily than the lighter colors. In some cases, people are seeing these marred iPhones in the Apple Stores where they are displayed.

Specifically, the issue seems to be affecting the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max in the Deep Blue colorway and the iPhone Air in Space Black.

A French publication, Consomac, reported similar issues in France, but it's not clear how prevalent this issue is or if the devices were possibly mishandled. Accounts in China, one of the first regions to get the phones, were sharing images of scratched handsets.

This year, Apple changed the frame of the iPhone 17 Pro models f

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