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Kuo: iPhone 17 Air measures about 5.5mm thin
The iPhone 17 Air should measure about 5.5mm at its thinnest point.
Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the iPhone 17 Air would measure about 5.5mm at its thinnest point, which would make it the thinnest iPhone ever, and that it would skip a physical SIM tray.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe iPhone 17 Air should measure about 5.5mm at its thinnest point.
- Who said it, and whenMing-Chi Kuo reported it on Jan 10, 2025 in MacRumors.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone Air (1st gen) was announced on Sep 9, 2025, 242 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyRightIt turned out the way this report said.Why: iPhone Air measures 5.64mm thick, substantively matching the reported roughly 5.5mm thickness.
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
- Ming-Chi Kuo
- We read it in
- MacRumors
- Product
- Apple iPhone Air (1st gen) · reported as “iPhone 17 Air”