Sep 20, 2024BF3-0680Partly right
What refresh rate does the iPhone 17 screen have?
Ross Young: base iPhone 17 to get LTPO display, 120Hz
The base iPhone 17 should use an LTPO display with refresh rates up to 120Hz.
Ross Young reported that the standard iPhone 17 would gain an LTPO display supporting a 120Hz refresh rate and an always-on screen, features that had been limited to Apple's Pro models.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe base iPhone 17 should use an LTPO display with refresh rates up to 120Hz.
- Who said it, and whenRoss Young reported it on Sep 20, 2024 in 9to5Mac.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 17 was announced on Sep 9, 2025, 354 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyPartly rightSome of this was right and some of it was not.Why: iPhone 17 did ship with ProMotion up to 120Hz and adaptive refresh down to 1Hz, but Apple does not use the report's LTPO OLED material label in the launch specification.
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- 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
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- 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
- Ross Young
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple iPhone 17 · reported as “iPhone 17”