iPhone Reportedly Moving to All-Screen Design in Two Stages

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Apple has agelong been moving towards an iPhone with an all-screen design, and it mightiness yet execute the feat successful a fewer much years from now.

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple volition shrink the size of the Dynamic Island connected caller iPhone models released adjacent year. A twelvemonth aft that, helium expects Apple to merchandise a redesigned 20th-anniversary iPhone model.

Gurman has previously said that the 20th-anniversary iPhone volition diagnostic curved solid edges, extraordinarily slim bezels, and a genuinely edge-to-edge surface with nary cutout. It would beryllium the archetypal iPhone exemplary with a genuinely seamless, all-screen design.

Last month, The Information's Wayne Ma reported that adjacent year's iPhone 18 Pro models would diagnostic under-screen Face ID. He said that the devices would person lone a tiny spread successful the top-left country of the screen, to accommodate the beforehand camera. He besides said that the devices would nary longer person a pill-shaped cutout astatine the apical of the screen, truthful we are unsure what to marque of Gurman saying determination volition inactive beryllium a smaller Dynamic Island adjacent year.

In immoderate case, it sounds similar the archetypal all-screen iPhone exemplary with some under-screen Face ID and an under-screen beforehand camera volition beryllium released successful 2027.

The modulation to an all-screen plan has been gradual. With the iPhone X successful 2017, Apple moved from Touch ID and heavy bezels to Face ID and a notch. With the iPhone 14 Pro successful 2022, Apple moved from a notch to the Dynamic Island.

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