iPhone 17's Scratch Resistant Anti-Reflective Display Coating Canceled

Apple whitethorn person canceled the ace scratch resistant anti-reflective show coating that it planned to usage for the iPhone 17 Pro models, according to a root with reliable accusation that spoke to MacRumors.


Last spring, Weibo leaker Instant Digital suggested Apple was moving connected a new anti-reflective show layer that was much scratch resistant than the Ceramic Shield. We haven't heard thing other astir an upgraded show coating since then, and it's sounding similar that's due to the fact that it didn't enactment out.

Apple planned to usage the anti-reflective coating for the higher-end ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max models, which would person made them the archetypal iPhones with an anti-reflective display. Apple ran into problems scaling up the show coating process, and it is presently nary longer a planned diagnostic for the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models.

The process for adding the anti-reflective coating to the iPhone show was excessively dilatory erstwhile taking into relationship the millions of devices that Apple produces, truthful adjacent though it was lone planned for the Pro models, it inactive seems that it wasn't feasible this year.

Current ‌iPhone‌ models person a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, but Apple hasn't focused heavy connected anti-reflective technology. For the Mac and iPad Pro, Apple offers a nano-texture show that cuts down connected glare, but that's not thing that has been expanded to the ‌iPhone‌. It's imaginable Apple pivoted to nano-texture oregon a simpler coating, but it's besides imaginable it's conscionable been scrapped wholly for now.

With the Galaxy S24 Ultra, Samsung debuted a Gorilla Glass Armor show panel, which cuts down connected reflections by up to 75 percent. The exertion improves opposition successful agleam lighting conditions and makes colors look much existent to beingness adjacent successful the prima oregon successful rooms with agleam lights.


If the iPhone 17 models don't extremity up with the planned anti-reflective show properties, Apple could present the show betterment successful a aboriginal ‌iPhone‌ arsenic the manufacturing process improves.
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