Besides a massive camera bump, this year’s iPhone 17 Pro will reportedly come in a sky blue, according to MajinBu, a prolific leaker who has previously shared accurate information on Apple products prior to their official announcement.
Apple tends to play it safe when it comes to color options for its top-of-the-line iPhone Pro and Pro Max. Your choices are typically more mature—sorry, professional—colors like black, white, gray, or some shade of gold. Only normie iPhone users want fun and vibrant colors (like the teal iPhone 16!) apparently.
It’s not that I hate sky blue—the hue might resemble the sky blue M4 MacBook Air—or blue. Blue is actually my favorite color. But if the rumor ends up correct, I just have one thought: blue again?
Apple’s already done blue iPhone Pros, including ones that are sky blue-ish like the “sierra blue” iPhone 13 Pro in 2021. Before that, there was a darker “pacific blue” iPhone 12 Pro released in 2020. Last year, the iPhone 15 Pro came in “blue titanium.” That’s already three shades of blue!
Sure, Apple has tried non-blue colors like the “alpine green” iPhone 13 Pro and “deep purple” iPhone 14 Pro, but those colors were so muted, they literally don’t shine through when you throw a case on. Would it kill Apple to give the iPhone Pro series at least one version with some vibrancy?
Gizmodo staff seem to agree. Consumer tech reporter Kyle Barr wants a banana yellow (like the iPhone 14/14 Plus) and Gizmodo alum and current contributing writer Alex Cranz wants Apple to bring back the alpine green. I’m demanding Apple go brighter. Somebody find Apple’s “courage” and toss in Tim Cook’s direction. Give us a new shade of the coral and lime green last seen on the iPhone 5C. Or how about a red? Apple’s red iPhones have been done in partnership with PRODUCT(RED), but the last one was the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus in 2022. Apple no longer sells any the last-standing PRODUCT(RED) iPhone SE after it released the iPhone 16e earlier this year.
It’s unlikely that Apple will surprise us with an exciting new color for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max this year. I guess if you do like blue, Apple will be happy to sell you yet another shade of it.
