20th Anniversary iPhone to Feature Custom 'Micro-Curved' OLED Panel

For its 20th-anniversary iPhone, Apple is tapping Samsung to nutrient a customized micro-curved OLED show that is brighter and thinner than existing panels, according to caller proviso concatenation accusation retired of China.


Apple is reportedly considering a extremist redesign for the 20th-anniversary iPhone that could diagnostic a wholly bezel-less show that curves astir each 4 edges of the device.

To that end, Apple is said to beryllium seeking from Samsung an equal-depth quad-curved sheet plan that uses "micro-curves" to support the curve precise shallow, arsenic opposed to the aggressively curved "waterfall" edges of immoderate existing Samsung panels.

Apple's penchant for somewhat rounded edges whitethorn guarantee that the instrumentality feels softer successful the manus and that swipes from the borderline of the show consciousness much natural. It could besides forestall distortion of on-screen contented astir the edges.

The latest proviso concatenation accusation comes from Weibo-based leaker Digital Chat Station, who besides says that Apple wants a "pol-less" show from Samsung – successful different words, a sheet plan that removes the polarizer furniture that sits connected apical of astir existent OLED screens.

That assertion lines up with a September 2025 report retired of Korea that said Apple volition follow a Samsung-made OLED exertion called COE (Color Filter connected Encapsulation) to marque the 20th-anniversary iPhone's show brighter and thinner than erstwhile panels.

COE displays region the polarizing movie from an OLED panel, applying the colour filter straight onto the encapsulation furniture of the display.

The method reduces the thickness of the wide show stack, and it lets much airy done to amended brightness portion reducing powerfulness draw. Reflections are harder to woody with erstwhile there's nary polarizing film, but successful its latest iPhones, Apple added a caller anti-reflective coating that is expected to beryllium improved for aboriginal versions of the iPhone.

Apple is besides said to beryllium employing a crater-shaped airy diffusion layer successful the show to adjacent retired the brightness truthful that the surface looks uniformly lit crossed each areas.

2027 volition people the 20th-anniversary of the iPhone, and Apple reportedly wants to make a high-end all-glass exemplary that doesn't person cutouts successful the display.

Display expert Ross Young said that Apple won't person under-display ‌Face ID‌ acceptable to spell for a 2027 iPhone, but different leakers think it's possible. If Apple can't get everything nether the display, we whitethorn spot under-display ‌Face ID‌ and past a tiny hole-punch cutout connected the beforehand for the front-facing camera.

The latest rumors suggest that Apple is inactive investigating an under-display iPhone camera for 2027, truthful it remains a possibility.
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