When Apple releases the iPhone 17 Pro in fall 2025, it looks like it could include a brighter color in the range. The current iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are mostly demure and understated, unlike the more vivid shades for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus.
Right now, the color choices are these: Black Titanium, White Titanium, Natural Titanium and Desert Titanium. All are quiet shades, with the exception of the pale golden finish of Desert Titanium., and even that’s not what you’d call gaudy. Last year was even quieter, with the predecessor to Desert being Blue Titanium.
But next year, there could be teal, green or dark green options, according to prolific leaker Majin Bu. How likely is this?
One thing’s for sure, the range won’t include both green and dark green as the two are so close, and Majin Bu isn’t suggesting that it will—though I could see the green being the hero color for the iPhone 17 and dark green the corresponding Pro shade, rather like the iPhone 14’s purple and iPhone 14 Pro’s deep purple choices.
The leaker’s belief is that the most likely option is Teal Titanium, saying, “The most likely candidate could be Teal Titanium considering that there is already a similar option on the current iPhone 16 series.”
Well, the teal is not the brightest iPhone 16 color, that’s ultramarine, but it’s brighter than some. And for the iPhone 17 Pro, teal certainly fits with the understated vibe of the iPhone 16 Pro range and could look like a slightly jazzier version of last year’s Blue Titanium, which was quite a quiet color.
Personally, I’d be delighted with a dark green option, which would show the iPhone Pro range could surprise us in terms of color.
Apple has always taken pride in surprising people with its design and the colors that transfer from one generation of iPhone to the next are subtly different, even down to colors like PRODUCT(RED). When the next iPhone is released, it’s possible that the Pro models will take the iPhone in a new direction.
