
Quick Summary
Apple is reportedly planning to upgrade the RAM in the iPhone 17 Pro / Max to 12GB, partly to better handle Apple Intelligence.
The same upgrade is predicted to arrive in all iPhone 18 models.
Apple's approach to the iPhone Pro and Pro Max is well established now: each year the Pro iPhones get the newest, most cutting-edge hardware and it then rolls down to other models the following year. And that pattern is tipped to continue with the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone 18.