iPhone 16 Rumored to Feature Even Thinner Bezels

[coffeemilktea]

This requires precise and advanced manufacturing techniques, given the complexity of tighter circuit placement and the need for bending some wiring downwards beneath the bezel.

Given how """innovative""" Apple has been this year and copyin- er, I mean, taking inspiration from features that Android has had for ages — you know, like downloading apps from random websites, and possibly pushing the boundaries of innovation beyond anything Phil Schiller could have envisioned by being able to move icons anywhere across the screen — does this mean that Apple may soon implement that one Android feature that people love to hate:

Curved screens?

 

[GaryMumford]

Reduce that dynamic island at the top, please. I feel like it's been the same size for 7 years now.

While its been 6 and a half years since the 'Notch' was introduced, It's actually only 18 months for the Dynamic Island

 

[shawnforever]

I upgraded from the 12 to the 15 Pro Max and it was big difference. The screen had noticeably smoother scrolling with ProMotion and it had other improvements as well. It's oftentimes hard to justify upgrading to the next year's model but if you wait a another year or two, the differences stack up and become apparent.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Like cool and all but come on. Something needs to change with the design. It is stale.

You didn't provide any ideas about what Apple could do to not make it "stale" so I'll assume this is what you were thinking.

The phone should be a 150mm diameter sphere with the entire outside of the sphere a screen. Then using the phone would be like peering into a crystal ball.

What's more, you could just twist the two halves of the sphere apart to replace the battery, upgrade RAM, add more storage, or replace whatever you want inside.

It could also float around behind you like a drone (hopefully not like an IT-O droid from Star Wars) to record you and be available whenever you need it.

That would be true innovation. That would be magical. That would be true courage. Anything less is boring.

 

[ant the ninja]

lol these threads are hilarious. Everyone is so nuts about how the phone looks but…it’s a phone…it’s rectangle. What do people want Apple to do? I don’t understand.

 

[gatorvet96]

Samsung in 2014:

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That has bezels just makes it look like it doesn't by curved glass. Ugly as hell IMHO

 

[Seanm87]

I miss being able to hold my phone without touching the screen

How on earth are you holding it? I’ve never done this

 

[MrGimper]

Reduce that dynamic island at the top, please. I feel like it's been the same size for 7 years now.

Dynamic island is actually more intrusive than the notch was, it was a genius invention. NOT.

 

[Born Again]

And they say Apple can't innovate?! That's definitely going to convince me to upgrade from 15Pro.

They can’t innovate? My a$$!

That’s going to be on Phil’s tombstone.

Thinner bezels .. material savings?

 

[zakarhino]

The iPhone used to be laughed at for having gigantic bezels vs. Android but Apple were the first major manufacturer to make a phone with symmetrical bezels (minus the notch) with the iPhone X (remember how all other phones had a slightly bigger bezel at the bottom? Google only just fixed that with the recent Pixel 8).

Now, with the 15 Pro's thin uniform bezels, dynamic island, rounded corners, and slight curved edges on the glass, I think the iPhone 15 Pro has the best looking and feeling display on the market.

All that to say I can't wait to see what the 16 Pro looks like if the bezels are even slimmer. We're slowly approaching the point where using the device will feel like holding the content rather than a phone displaying the content.

What the iPhone desperately needs is the Gorilla Glass anti reflective coating used in the S24 Ultra, it's a genuine game changer and the black levels look absurdly good. Unfortunately we have to wait for the 17 to get it.

 

[gatorvet96]

Given how """innovative""" Apple has been this year and copyin- er, I mean, taking inspiration from features that Android has had for ages — you know, like downloading apps from random websites, and possibly pushing the boundaries of innovation beyond anything Phil Schiller could have envisioned by being able to move icons anywhere across the screen — does this mean that Apple may soon implement that one Android feature that people love to hate:

Curved screens?

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Those phones have large bezels. It is an illusion with curving the glass. They were hideous and therefore no one makes screens like that anymore.

 

[alfonsog]

When they finally make the perfect phone with no bezels then it goes in a case right after opening what’s the point… I’m the only person I’ve seen that doesn’t always use a case.

 

[scrapesleon]

oh wow am I suppose to be impressed not...

 

[victorvictoria]

Ooh, thinner bezels! That should move the needle!

 

[Born Again]

Guys, you gotta see the iPhone as the Porsche 911 of phones. Only incremental changes, refinements and improvements here and there but the designlanguage stays the same. Many are complaining but can you imagine the sarcasm and sh*%storm if Apple radically changed the iPhones design? I bet everyone would hate it because it doesn‘t look like an iPhone anymore.

Marketing tells you it’s the Porsche my friend.

Between a Samsung galaxy and an iPhone you think there is much technology difference?

Let’s call the Samsung a Kia. The Apple is then the Hyundai.

Same **** my friend.

Don’t let the marketing fool you.

 

[Eggtastic]

Im all for it. I wish they would turn on the LED's intbeween the camera / face id "dynamic island". Apparently they are there but are purposely off to give it that look. Once you perform a dynamic island function they can just turn back off. Apple is apple and that will not happen.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Like cool and all but come on. Something needs to change with the design. It is stale.

There's only so many ways to make a rectangle.

 

[.wojtek]

Oh! So it will be even more difficult to hold the phone... way to go apple! 🤡 🤦‍♂️

 

[DocMultimedia]

There's only so many ways to make a rectangle.

This is why the next iPhone needs to be an ellipse. Innovation. Lol

 

[3530025]

Like cool and all but come on. Something needs to change with the design. It is stale.

Stale? How can you say that? 16s are going to be 0.2 inches larger and will have extra button!

Oh and cameras on 16 will be vertically aligned! You call that stale?!

 

[Japan Ricardo]

The priorities should be:
1. Thinner
2. Lighter
3. No dynamic island
4. Stronger
5. Longer battery life
6. Lies flat.

.... [list continues]


567. Thinner bezels

 

[big_papa_johnny]

lol these threads are hilarious. Everyone is so nuts about how the phone looks but…it’s a phone…it’s rectangle. What do people want Apple to do? I don’t understand.

People just love to complain for no reason.

 

[mazz0]

When they finally make the perfect phone with no bezels then it goes in a case right after opening what’s the point… I’m the only person I’ve seen that doesn’t always use a case.

I don't use a case. I might if they still made bumpers like for the iPhone 4 when people were holding it wrong, I liked those.

 

[mazz0]

The priorities should be:
1. Thinner
2. Lighter
3. No dynamic island
4. Stronger
5. Longer battery life
6. Lies flat.

.... [list continues]


567. Thinner bezels

1 and 6 contradict each other. In my opinion they shouldn't make it thinner, they should make it thick enough to not need a camera bump, and fill that space with extra battery.

 

[Rogue AI]

My god, these pointless iterative updates are driving me away from Apple. I’m tired of them.