Overview

• COMPUTER BILD’s lab test finds the iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers strong A19 Pro performance, introduces Apple’s first vapor‑chamber liquid cooling, and adds a larger 5,088 mAh battery for notably long runtimes.
• Preorders opened on September 12 with deliveries from September 19, and retailer listings show many Pro and Pro Max variants are backordered while the iPhone Air remains broadly available.
• An earlier insider report cited by COMPUTER BILD suggests Apple allocated roughly 10% of initial iPhone 17 production to the Air, which may help explain its continued availability.
• Apple touts a major storage security upgrade across the iPhone 17 lineup, describing it as the most significant advance in consumer OS storage protection to date.
• Xiaomi officially teased the Xiaomi 17 Pro/Pro Max with a large rear secondary display and signaled a China‑first presentation later in September after adopting Apple‑like naming.