I don't believe it. There will always be a crease. If you don't see it on day 1, you will by day 100. It's a moving part and will start to show with age.
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Apple's 2026 Foldable iPhone Has No Visible Display Crease – Report
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Aspect ratio is the biggest factor. If they continue the square, it’s a deal breaker for me. I see foldables out in the real world today and it silly seeing them unfold only to watch a movie or video with gigantic black bars on the top and bottom. I don’t see a ton of real estate being used in any efficient manner with today’s current aspect ratios. Rectangular makes way more sense.
This. I don‘t want it, I think it‘s a gimmick.
Years ago when the first folding phones came out and everyone cried for Apple to do it, I thought it makes no sense with where Apple is heading in terms of continuity.
I always thought it‘d be way cooler if Apple went the digital route/ continuity screen mirroring or handoff route. Imagine having a website open with a form filled out halfway through, you go to your Mac and place the phone down next to it and the Safari webpage (with state preserved) smoothly warps out of the corner where your phone is placed near (similar to their shared cursor mode for iPads / Macs). Do that for as much content as possible/ Apps as possible and it‘s a dream come true. Thankfully they are moving towards such a feature with all the various handoff / iCloud features they implemented over the last few years. Bring me a future where all my content is instantly available from all of my devices and I don‘t need my phone to have a bigger screen, I can just take over from another big screen
That‘d be next gen to me. Always thought of something like that when I saw Iron Man 2, the courtroom scene where Tony points at a display and beams video feed to it.
I probably won’t be able to afford it, but if Apple gets the flip phone done right then I’d be willing to give up my 13 mini.
The Find N5 has a very visible crease, a simple google image search demonstrates that. It's even visible in this exact image, if you look carefully. You'll also notice the photographer very deliberately avoided having any bright lights (or any lights at all, in fact) reflecting near the crease area or it would be even more obvious.
By looking at the price, people will go after Fold or Flip 7th iterations from Samsung. Others are also having their 3rd or 4th iteration of foldable ones like OnePlus.If the iPhone Foldable ones are above 8 inches, it may eat up its own MBAirs or iPads! That’s good for the consumers since they do not need 3 devices if iFold can do it!
Given how expensive existing foldables are, I shudder to imagine how much an iPhone fold would cost.
I’m a fan of foldables so I’m excited and intrigued to see what Apple can do.
Interesting that Samsung are developing the crease free display exclusively for Apple rather than using it for their own foldable phone.
I sure it’s that much. I prefer to have my social status and look down on the peasants lol.
Samsung Display is mentioned as the source of the display. They are separate from Samsung (consumer electronics).
"Apple has decided to eliminate the crease at all costs, regardless of price, to differentiate its foldable phone from existing models,"
Then the trade-in value on my 16PM had better be otherworldly, Tim.
Then the trade-in value on my 16PM had better be otherworldly, Tim.
It seems the display ratio is closer to Pixel Fold's, which was like a passport.
That should give the inner screen a boost when watching movies, youtube and stuff...
That should give the inner screen a boost when watching movies, youtube and stuff...
Agreed! I'm not in the market for a foldable, at all, but if I was, I'd want a flip. I don't need/want more screen, but I would like it to be smaller in the pocket.
It’s not the crease that bothers me. It’s the durability of the hinge. I’ve watched plenty of JerryRigEverything videos where the hinge is destroyed with just a little bit of dirt. That’s the biggest engineering challenge in my eyes.
My current iPhone has no visible crease either 
and I have 100% capability and usability without having to unfold it.
and I have 100% capability and usability without having to unfold it.
I do want it! Actually is all I want from Apple since 2019.
The purpose is so very clear and logical: to have a big screen in a small form factor device when closed. Can’t you see it?
I don’t think so. Apple got burned a few years ago when they tried to hike the iPhone prices too high. I don’t think they will make that mistake again. It will be expensive but competitively priced compared to the other brands.
They need to think about a folding iPad not an unfolding phone. But also to define iPad as it was originally conceived - a media consumption tablet not a laptop.
If my phone will open to give me a non square media viewer/reader I'm interested. But not gen 1 and the price would need to be less than an iPhone and iPad combined.
If my phone will open to give me a non square media viewer/reader I'm interested. But not gen 1 and the price would need to be less than an iPhone and iPad combined.
I think, for me, there are iPhone tasks and there are PC/Mac Tasks. When a task gets to the point where it would be easier on a bigger device I switch to my MBP.
Booking flights/watching YT/research etc.
I had an iPad, but sold it because it didn't do either the mac jobs well, nor the portability any better than my Mac.
I am a mountain biker, a motorcyclist, amongst other things. So a plus sized iPhone is about as heavy as I want to go for pockets, but the screen is good enough for all the tasks I ask of a phone.
I'm not sure I would really want to whip out and unfold a phone, I might as well grab a mac.
It seems so wasteful to me to have an interior and exterior screen. Why not wait until the outer screen can be folded out?