May 5, 2024BF3-0288Wrong
What camera does the iPhone 17 have?
Jeff Pu: iPhone 17 front camera to hit 24MP
All four iPhone 17 models were expected to use a 24MP front camera.
Analyst Jeff Pu reported that all four iPhone 17 models would use an upgraded 24-megapixel front-facing camera, up from the resolution on earlier models.
How to read this record
- What was reportedAll four iPhone 17 models were expected to use a 24MP front camera.
- Who said it, and whenJeff Pu reported it on May 5, 2024 in 9to5Mac.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 17 was announced on Sep 9, 2025, 492 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyWrongIt did not turn out this way.Why: The iPhone 17 generation shipped with Apple's 18MP Center Stage front camera rather than the predicted 24MP front camera across all four models.
What do these words mean?
- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Jeff Pu
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple iPhone 17 · reported as “iPhone 17”