iPhone 17 Pro – A Developer’s Review
Beto, September 22, 2025 · 3,281 views
A new iPhone drops every year, and every year the same question matters: which features should your app support today? I upgraded from the 15 Pro Max to the 17 Pro and looked at the whole release through a developer's lens. My full breakdown is in the video.
What's inside
- Why Liquid Glass reaches back to the iPhone 11, so you can adopt it now
- Only about 25% of iPhones can run on-device LLMs today
- Apple intelligence APIs for local, private AI processing
- Running third-party models like Whisper on device
- A React Native package that exposes Apple intelligence
- What the rising camera ceiling means for photo and video apps
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