The flagship iPhone 17 Pro Max, which will be released next year, will receive three 48-megapixel cameras at once. Including an advanced camera with Tetraprism optics, which will provide improved photo quality with optical zoom. This was reported by authoritative analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

The main spec change for next year’s flagship Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max will be a 1/2.6-inch 48-megapixel sensor with a zoom lens, while the iPhone 16 Pro models will have a 1/3.1-inch 12-megapixel sensor with a zoom lens. Similar optics Both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are expected to get the same Tetraprism telephoto lenses this year; while last year’s iPhone 15 Pro series had a traditional 12-megapixel camera with 3x zoom, the iPhone 15 Pro Max uses a more powerful telephoto lens, a Tetraprism lens with 5x magnification. So Ming-Chi Kuo said that both iPhone 16 Pros this year will have at least 5x optical zoom and 25x digital zoom.

So far, the expert is not sure if only the iPhone 17 Pro Max will receive the upgraded Tetraprism camera. However, if it turns out to be exclusive to this model, it will appear on both iPhone 18 Pro in 2026. The analyst’s data confirms the report of Jeff Pu (Jeff Pu) from Haitong International Securities. Last December, he announced that the upgraded 48-megapixel telephoto module of the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be optimized to work with Apple’s Vision Pro. The current iPhone 15 Pro models also allow you to record spatial video for the mixed reality headset.

Pu also previously said that both iPhone 16 Pro models will have a wide-angle camera with a 48-megapixel sensor, and that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be the first model in the series to have three 48-megapixel cameras. For comparison, the current 48-megapixel iPhone 15 Pro only has a main camera; the wide-angle and telephoto cameras have 12-megapixel sensors.