{"id":63809,"date":"2025-08-13T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63809\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:09:08","slug":"will-the-base-iphone-17-pro-get-more-storage-with-higher-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63809\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the base iPhone 17 Pro get more storage with higher price"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest report claiming that Apple will add $50 to the price of the iPhone 17 Pro<\/a> because of tariffs, also adds that the base model will start with more storage than before. <\/p>\n

It’s been expected that the price of the iPhone will have to rise<\/a> because of tariffs, with the latest reports claiming it will be a $50 rise<\/a>. Now leaker “Instant Digital” on Chinese social media site Weibo backs that up, and adds that Apple will increase<\/a> the starting storage of the iPhone 17 Pro to 256GB to mask the cost. <\/p>\n

Apple has been predicted<\/a> to do this, and specifically to raise prices but avoid blaming<\/a> the tariffs that are responsible for it. That’s because the White House exploded<\/a> when it was reported that Amazon was going to do a public service and clearly show the tariff increases on products. <\/p>\n

Plus Apple has done exactly this before. In 2022, the iPhone 14 Pro Max<\/a> started at $1,099, and in 2023 the iPhone 15 Pro Max<\/a> started at $1,199. <\/p>\n

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\nThe (translated) report on Wiebo – image credit: Instant Digital<\/p>\n

Apple, though, even stressed in the launch video that the iPhone 15 Pro Max would start with 256GB, up from the 128GB base model the year before. That enabled Greg Joswiak<\/a> to say that this matched “last year’s price with this level of storage.” <\/p>\n

Only Apple knows the breakdown of its iPhone sales, but it’s likely that users of the top-end iPhone would often elect to get more storage, given that they are probably shooting more video and images than most people. Consequently, it’s likely that this worked then, so it may well work now. <\/p>\n

What went down rather less well was an alternative that Apple tried in 2022. During that iPhone 14<\/a> launch video, Apple took time out to claim that it had kept prices<\/a> to exactly the same level as the iPhone 13<\/a> range. <\/p>\n

But it hadn’t. That claim was true solely for the US and China, while everywhere else saw significant rises. In the UK, the average price rise was $80, while in Japan it was $146. <\/p>\n

Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs have hit Apple in the same way that it has all US firms who now have to pay extra<\/a> to import goods from overseas. It’s a policy whose amounts change on a whim, causing stock market uncertainty, and it’s a policy that is putting US companies out of business. <\/p>\n

For Apple specifically, as the iPhone 17 is launched, there will be a 30% tariff on anything it imports from China. That’s ten times more<\/a> than Apple used to pay, but it may well get worse as Trump continues to threaten 150%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest report claiming that Apple will add $50 to the price of the iPhone 17 Pro because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}