It’s been a productive few years for Apple’s iPhone, meaning quite a bit will have changed if you’re looking to upgrade from an older device. The iPhone 15 added the action button , the iPhone 16 added the camera control zone, and on the software side we’ve seen the introduction of Apple Intelligence and now the divisive transparencies of Liquid Glass in iOS 26.

The latest line-up of iPhones that are now in stores all have these features, and all function more or less the same, but they present three distinct options from a hardware point of view. After a few weeks switching between them, here’s what you need to know about the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air.

We’ve been trained to think of the higher-end or Pro model smartphones as the good ones and the standard models as

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