The iPhone 17 series is, by all accounts, a fantastic update to Apple's phone lineup, with a couple of the newcomers ranking among the best phones overall. The standard iPhone 17 now offers Pro-level features people have been asking about for years, while the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max feature brighter displays and more powerful chipsets, while improving on their predecessors in almost every way. Except maybe for scratch resistance, of course.
But as much as people like to talk about what Apple has given us on its latest phones, I can't help but think back to some of the things we've lost. Apple has pulled quite a lot of hardware from the iPhone over the years, and that's reflected on the current iPhone 17 models.
