Should I upgrade my iPhone 17 Pro?
The Apple iPhone 17 Pro went on sale on 19 September 2025. The Apple UK store price is £1,099 (read 19 August 2026). It has a 6.3-inch display, a weight of 204 g, the A19 Pro chip, a 48 MP main camera and 256 GB of storage to start. Apple claims up to 31 hours of video playback. Apple publishes no end date for its security updates. Every figure in the Apple iPhone 17 Pro specifications below links the page it came from and the date it was read.
a year oldNo published support end dateRead
Is it still supported?
Apple publishes no end date, and this site does not guess one. The support card on the iPhone 17 Pro page says what is known and where it came from.endoflife.date — iPhone, retrieved 2026-08-19
What the iPhone 18 Pro changes
The newest Apple phone in this line is the iPhone 18 Pro at £1,199, released 18 September 2026. Judged row by row against our published thresholds; the full table is at iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro.
On the makers’ figures and the named third-party sources, neither the iPhone 18 Pro nor the iPhone 17 Pro wins a row by a gap you would notice. 2 gaps are borderline, differences most people would not notice: claimed video playback (34 h against 31 h) for the iPhone 18 Pro and fast charging (60 W against 40 W) for the iPhone 18 Pro. The differences in weight and battery capacity are below the thresholds you would notice. Both state the same display size, refresh rate, peak brightness, typical brightness, HDR peak brightness, storage (base), RAM and wireless charging. The other 37 rows have no threshold or no direction to judge by, so nobody wins them.
- Claimed video playback: 31 h → 34 h borderline; marginal — most people won’t notice.
- Fast charging: 40 W → 60 W borderline; marginal — most people won’t notice.
Other makers at the price
Phones from other makers released within a year of the iPhone 18 Pro and priced within a quarter of its £1,199, nearest price first, each judged the same way against your iPhone 17 Pro.
What yours is worth
Our reading of the figures
Apple publishes no end date for the iPhone 17 Pro’s security updates, so support is not a reason to move until it is.
On the published figures, the iPhone 18 Pro does not win a single row by a gap you would notice; the differences are below our thresholds or have no direction to judge.
At £1,199 new, less the £540 CeX was paying for a grade A iPhone 17 Pro on 2025-11-25, the move costs about £659.
Every sentence above is built from the figures on this page by a rule, not written for this phone: a support date, the rows that clear a published threshold, a price and a trade-in. There is no score and no recommendation. The methodology page has the thresholds and where they come from. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All upgrade questions.