The iPhone 17 case makers are ready for Tuesday

Apple’s launch event for the iPhone 17 lineup is just around the corner, and case makers are already showing off the products they can be paired with on the IFA 2025 showfloor. I walked around two rooms dedicated to the latest mobile phone accessories and they were dominated by cases apparently designed for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Air launches, with several examples being displayed on dummy units.

The iPhone 17 models that the cases were based on were consistent across the floor. The rear camera bars on the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have adopted a Pixel-like design, stretching the square bar on the current iPhone 16 Pro models across to cover the entire upper body. The iPhone 17 Air features a similar look, but is much thinner, with a single camera lens and a slimmer camera bar.

Here’s a closer look at one of the iPhone 17 Pro Max dummies I got my hands on:

And here’s a look at the iPhone 17 Air. In his preview for Apple’s launch event on Tuesday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said the Air will be “roughly 5.5 millimeters, making it about a third thinner than the iPhone 16 Pro,” but at the expense of a drop in battery life. It certainly feels very slim and lightweight in my hand compared to my chunky iPhone 14 Pro Max.

We’ll get official confirmation of the upcoming iPhone designs next week. But for now, all of the iPhone 17 cases I snapped at IFA give us a pretty good idea of what we can expect.