Apple is charging $200 to double the iPhone’s storage
While Apple tweaked the starting price of the iPhone 17 Pro, raising it by $100, it said that part of the reason was that it has the same amount of storage as an upgraded version from last year.
“iPhone 17 Pro starts at $1,099, the same great price as last year’s 256GB iPhone 16 Pro,” said Apple’s marketing chief Greg Joswiak during the launch event.
But now, the first upgraded storage option on iPhone 17 models costs $200, instead of $100. For example, an iPhone 17 Air with 256GB of storage costs $999 while the one with 512GB of storage costs $1,199, according to Apple’s website.
For the iPhone 17 Pro models, Apple is only charging $200 to upgrade from 512GB of storage to 1TB, but it will charge an extra $500, bringing the total price to $1,999, for 2TB of storage space.
Apple previously charged $200 to upgrade devices from 256GB of storage to 512GB. Now that all of Apple’s iPhone models this year start with 256GB of storage space, it will cost more to upgrade them. — Kif Leswing
