There isn’t a reliable public statistic for “what percentage of iPhone 17 buyers buy an 17e.” The sources I found compare the models and their features, but they do not provide a buyer conversion rate or market-share ratio between the two phones.

What is known

  • The iPhone 17e is positioned as the lower-cost option, while the iPhone 17 is the more feature-rich base model.
  • The price gap is commonly described as about $200, with the 17e starting at $599 and the iPhone 17 at $799 in the sources I found.
  • Review and buyer-guide coverage suggests the choice is driven more by budget and feature tradeoffs than by any published adoption percentage.

Practical read

If you are asking for a rough market estimate, no credible public figure is available from the material I found. Based on the positioning alone, the 17e would likely appeal to a subset of buyers who want the cheapest new iPhone, while most iPhone 17 buyers would not also be buying a 17e as a second device.

What would be needed

A real percentage would usually come from one of these:

  • Apple sales mix data.
  • Carrier or retail sell-through data.
  • Consumer survey data.
  • Third-party market research.

Without that kind of data, any exact percentage would be speculation, not fact.