Overview
- Ookla’s crowdsourced Speedtest Intelligence from September 19 to October 29 shows the iPhone 17 family achieving up to 40% higher median download and upload speeds than iPhone 16 across regions.
- Worst‑case performance improved most, with roughly 60% higher speeds at the 10th percentile, indicating a meaningful lift in challenging Wi‑Fi conditions.
- The N1 integrates Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread but is limited to 160 MHz channels, which Ookla says did not materially affect typical user speeds during the study period.
- Globally, Google’s Pixel 10 Pro narrowly led median download speed, while the iPhone 17 led in worst‑case results and Xiaomi’s 15T Pro dominated uploads and latency metrics.
- In North America, the iPhone 17 posted the highest median and 90th‑percentile Wi‑Fi download speeds among flagships, with median results reported around 416 Mbps.