Mar 12, 2025BF3-0868Right
Ice Universe: iPhone 17 Air is 5.5mm at thinnest
The iPhone 17 Air chassis will measure about 5.5mm at its thinnest point.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had estimated the iPhone 17 Air's chassis at 5.5mm thick. Leaker Ice Universe reported the camera bump adds up to about 9.5mm at the phone's thickest point.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe iPhone 17 Air chassis will measure about 5.5mm at its thinnest point.
- Who said it, and whenIce Universe reported it on Mar 12, 2025 in MacRumors.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone Air (1st gen) was announced on Sep 9, 2025, 181 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.
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- Right
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- Partly right
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- 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.
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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
- Ice Universe
- We read it in
- MacRumors
- Product
- Apple iPhone Air (1st gen) · reported as “iPhone 17 Air”