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Foldable iPhone's Crease-Free Display Tech Spotted at CES 2026

Ramchi said:
Crease free display not possible. It may look fine in the showroom display without using much. But as soon as you start using it heavily, crease is unavoidable IMO. These are very expensive displays for repairs and Apple Care will making killing on this service.
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The crease is a non-issue even on current tech. I had the Z Fold 2 as a secondary phone for quite a while and you absolutely 1000% stop noticing the crease when using the device. Yes - when the screen is off and just black and you have the ceiling lights reflecting off of it, you can see the crease. When you actually use the device, it disappears in your mind's eye.
 
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elvisimprsntr said:
I already have a hard time justifying $1000 for a new phone every 4-5 years. I can’t imagine what the Apple tax price will be for a foldable.
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Apple Tax is real and legendary!

It killed the iPhone Air, but may not kill the folding iPhone due to it’s growing acceptance in the marketplace.

That said, Apple Tax could certainly stunt its sales.
 
Zorn said:
The crease is a non-issue even on current tech. I had the Z Fold 2 as a secondary phone for quite a while and you absolutely 1000% stop noticing the crease when using the device. Yes - when the screen is off and just black and you have the ceiling lights reflecting off of it, you can see the crease. When you actually use the device, it disappears in your mind's eye.
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The visual system fills in a lot of gaps for missing and distorted information. That doesn't mean the crease won't become bothersome over time. Also, flexing electrical components is generally a bad idea both in terms of fatiguing the material of which the components are made, and in terms of introducing noise to signals. A better solution would be to join two fixed screens with an ultra-precision hinge that joins the screens with a gap equal to the gap between pixels. That wouldn't be easy to do on an industrial scale at an affordable price, but eventually high-tech machining will get there.
 
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I'd be curious to see how bad (or good?) the crease is on this phone. I'm not sure if id like it if it has any crease which is likely my OCD.
 
The Game 161 said:
they will likely create a new foldableOS or something as new features will certainly be added for this form factor
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Please, not another OS! They need to unify the OS that simply changes its UI based on the screen it's output on - much like how fluidity and responsiveness work in web programming. This way we can run whatever program we want on whatever device we want.
 
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-BigMac- said:
Oh, cool. Another ‘revolutionary’ foldable Phone.

Because what I’ve always dreamed of is carrying a fragile, bendy, pocket-stabbing piece of origami that I have to treat like it’s made of glass fairy dust. Newsflash: I don’t want a foldable phone - I want a solid, unkillable slab of iPhone glory with a multiday battery and a screen that doesn’t even know what a bezel is.

Foldable? Cute.

You mean you wanted an iPad that you can accidentally snap in half? Apple, just make the iPhone Pro PRO. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just give me a phone that feels like it’s worth the $2k without praying to a tech god every time I pull it out of my pocket
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Then don’t buy one?
 
does any one know if the iPhone fold, when folded, can fit and be wireless charged on a Tesla Model Y's charging pad?
 
Dr McKay said:
For the life of me I will never understand the people that flood every single iPhone fold article to tell everyone how they hate it etc, or even claim that nobody else would want the fold because they don’t want it. They act like they’ll be forced to buy it or that Apple is going to kill the existing lineup.

If it doesn’t appeal to you, fine, move on. Apple makes different products to suit different people’s wants. Do you go into iMac and Mac mini articles to announce that you don’t like them because a MacBook better suits your needs? Do you complain when the ice cream parlour also stocks flavours that aren’t your favourite?
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Flood? Relax, Dr McKay, it’s a comment section, not a humanitarian crisis. People discuss products they don’t want all the time- that’s how opinions work. Nobody said Apple would force-feed me a foldable or delete slab phones from existence. Criticising a design direction doesnt equal personal panic attack.

Also the ice-cream analogy collapses pretty fast. If a brand known for rock-solid phones suddenly pushes a mechanically complex, crease-prone hinge experiment, people are allowed to say ‘that’s dumb’ without being told to ‘move on’. This isn’t an iMac vs Mac mini situation- it’s Apple flirting with a compromise some of us think is worse engineering, not a different flavour.

Some of us want Apple to make the best phone possible, not every phone possible. Discussing that is literally the point of tech forums.
 
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I personally wonder if Samsung pulled it off the floor at CES once people started stating its what Apple will be getting, and they cant have their largest customer for screens get mad about the technology being shown before hand?

I purchased a Z Fold 7 abut 2 weeks ago, I am on the Apple 1UP and have the 17PM, and I was trying to make the switch because I am just impatient and want a foldable so bad, and once I saw the "Passport" style Apple is rumored to come out with, I was not super happy. The Samsung Fold is a masterpiece of technology with how thin and solid the device is, but ultimately I had to return it because the pain points of switching all data from a eco System I have been in since the first iPhone proved to be a lot of work and very frustrating to do. BUT that just made me want a foldable that much more and I will do the 1UP again this year with Apples Foldable.

Most of you bashing it have never even held a foldable or tried one, I can say Samsungs is solid as heck, Jerry Rig Everything could not even get the Fold 7 to bend, and its super thin. The durability is not an issue, and finally Foldables are losing that Beta Test feel and the quality has really stepped it up, Or you just do not want to spend the money which is fine, But bashing something that you cant afford or do not understand is childish.
 
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Can anyone at CES let us know if it's still, a soft, easily scratch-able film like screen like the Fold 3? Hoping Apple can at find some way to make it more glass-like.
 
The problem with Fold isn’t the crease. It’s that there isn’t a big enough need or pain point that would require this kind of contraption as a solution.

When opened, the iPhone Fold will basically be the same size (a bit bigger) as the current Pro Max in landscape. But when you fold it, it becomes smaller and fits better in your pocket. Because for all Pro Max users, fitting it into a pocket has been a huge problem. Such a huge problem, in fact, that a $2500 Fold is totally justified.

Or maybe not.

My prediction? This is going to flop badly. In fact, I believe the iPhone Fold’s failure will kill off foldables altogether, and they’ll go down in history as a short-lived experiment.
 
I love that the crease-free tech is becoming reality. Neat.

For me, a crease in a foldable isn't the deal breaker. It's the hinge getting dirt/dust in it. I really like those phones, but don't know if I want to risk buying one just yet. Perhaps in a few more generations of this tech, we won't even need to pause to think about getting one.
 
Sami13496 said:
The problem with Fold isn’t the crease. It’s that there isn’t a big enough need or pain point that would require this kind of contraption as a solution.

When opened, the iPhone Fold will basically be the same size (a bit bigger) as the current Pro Max in landscape. But when you fold it, it becomes smaller and fits better in your pocket. Because for all Pro Max users, fitting it into a pocket has been a huge problem. Such a huge problem, in fact, that a $2500 Fold is totally justified.

Or maybe not.

My prediction? This is going to flop badly. In fact, I believe the iPhone Fold’s failure will kill off foldables altogether, and they’ll go down in history as a short-lived experiment.
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It will be significantly larger than the current Pro Max in landscape, just like the iPAd mini is significantly larger than the Pro Max in landscape. To many people, that's a game changer.
 
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Sami13496 said:
My prediction? This is going to flop badly. In fact, I believe the iPhone Fold’s failure will kill off foldables altogether, and they’ll go down in history as a short-lived experiment.
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How do you figure? Samsung has done well with theirs, and several other companies are in the foldable game. If there was not a market, we wouldnt have so many companies doing it, and improving on it year after year. So again, another person who does not want one so assumes because YOU do not want it, no one will buy it lol

Samsung has 7 Generations, soon to be an 8th (With 2 different versions of the fold and one flip) so we are well past your so called experiment phase lol
 
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