iPad Pro and iPhone 17 Air rumors
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Leaked iPhone 17 Air battery capacity reveals new model’s biggest weakness
- Report: iOS 27 to focus on new features for upcoming iPhone Fold
- Report: M5 iPad Pro to have dual front-facing cameras
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Monday, July 21st, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are |
| 0:09.7 | sponsored this week by Bitwarden. Leading off today with last year's M4 iPad Pro, Apple made a long |
| 0:16.7 | away to change to the design. It moved the front-facing camera from the top to the side. |
| 0:23.1 | According to Bloomberg, Apple has another big change in store for the iPad Pro's front-facing |
| 0:27.5 | camera with the M-5 update coming later this year. In the latest edition of his Power-On |
| 0:35.0 | newsletter, Mark German reports that Apple is adding a second |
| 0:38.9 | portrait side front-facing camera to the upcoming iPad Pro. This means you'll have a front-facing |
| 0:45.6 | camera on the top and landscape sides of the device. German explains that this is so |
| 0:51.9 | facetimers and selfie fans can use the device equally as well in either orientation. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a change meant to address complaints from iPad Pro users who were frustrated by Apple's decision to move the front camera from the portrait to the landscape side last year. |
| 1:09.0 | It's important to note that Face ID on the iPad Pro is already designed to work in either orientation, |
| 1:14.6 | so this addition of a new front facing camera shouldn't have any impact on the performance of Face ID on the iPad Pro. |
| 1:22.6 | The M5 iPad Pro is expected to launch later this year, other than the speedier M5 chip and the front-facing camera changes, we aren't expecting any major revisions. |
| 1:35.1 | Notably, the iPad Pro will be Apple's first M5 power device with the first M5 Macs not set to launch until 2026. |
| 1:51.1 | In other news today, this fall an ultra-thin iPhone-17 Air will join Apple's product lineup. |
| 1:58.5 | But unsurprisingly, that radically thin design will come with some compromises, specifically around battery life. |
| 2:06.0 | Back in May, a report said that the iPhone 17 air's battery capacity would be lower than some might have expected. |
| 2:12.6 | That rumor said the iPhone 17 air would feature a 2,800 milliamp hour battery. |
| 2:19.2 | A new rumor this week adds more weight to this expectation and said the iPhone 17 Air will indeed feature a battery smaller than 3,000 milliamph hours. |
| 2:24.6 | This is dramatically smaller than what we're expecting from the rest of the iPhone 17 lineup. |
| 2:30.3 | The iPhone 17 Pro Max is rumored to have a 5,000 millie amp hour battery. |
| 2:36.3 | The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro currently have 3,500 milliamph hour batteries, |
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