Former Apple design chief Jony Ive always described his long-term vision for the iPhone design as “a single slab of glass.” Apple is believed to have retained that goal long after Ive left the company, with Liquid Glass representing the company’s software prep ahead of the new hardware.
We’ve already seen reports of a number of ways in which the 20th anniversary iPhone could take us significantly closer to Apple’s vision, and the latest of these may provide another piece of the puzzle …
What we’re expecting
It had initially been thought that Apple might create a standalone special edition 20th anniversary iPhone, although more recent reports suggest that it will instead be the iPhone 19 Pro that gets all the design features intended to create that glass slab look. To further complicate matters, some believe Apple will skip the iPhone 19 naming in order to mark the anniversary, calling it the iPhone 20 Pro.
This far ahead, the reports are highly speculative in nature, but the key design feature is expected to be a display which curves away from the front on all four sides in order to create the illusion of no bezel at all.
