The rumored iPhone 17 Pro camera update may support 8K video — image credit: Digital Chat Station/Weibo
A new rumor posted about the iPhone 17 Pro‘s chassis design has tantalizingly alluded to the cameras being able to shoot video at much more the current 4K resolution.
Apple is shooting its forthcoming Bono music documentary in 8K for the Apple Vision Pro, but to date no iPhone has been able to shoot at greater than 4K. Now, however, the very briefest of references in a new leak on Chinese social media site Weibo suggests that the resolution will increase on the iPhone 17 Pro.
“With 8k in your hand, iPhone 17 series should expect more,” says leaker Fixed Focus Digital in the post (in translation).
That’s the sole reference to 8K video, or the cameras. The rest of the post is practically a musing about how good the iPhone 17 will feel with its “half-aluminum and half-glass” design.
It does also refer to the iPhone 17 series rather than specifically the iPhone 17 Pro. Nonetheless, it’s close to certain that any significant camera upgrade will come to the Pro models first.
This isn’t the first time that 8K video has been suggested as coming to the iPhone, however. In September 2024, it was reported that Apple had been testing 8K with the then-forthcoming iPhone 16 Pro.
If 8K does come to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, it will presumably also enable spatial video recording for the Apple Vision Pro at that higher resolution — but this depends very much on if Apple uses one video-capable 8K sensor for video recording or two in the iPhone 17.
