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This is what’s coming.
2025
(*17*)In 2025, Apple plans to debut the iPhone 17 Air, a a lot thinner model of the iPhone. Rumors recommend that it might be as skinny as 5.5mm, which might make it the thinnest iPhone to date.
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Apple is prioritizing the brand new, slimmed down chassis over options, and there will probably be some compromises. The iPhone 17 Air is predicted to have a single-lens digicam and decrease battery life as a result of Apple has to use a thinner battery. Nonetheless, it’s an all-new design, and it helps Apple begin the transfer to slimmer smartphones.
2026
(*17*)The primary foldable iPhone is coming in 2026, and that would be the largest change to Apple’s smartphone lineup in iPhone historical past. Over the weekend, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman shared just a few extra particulars on the gadget, including to what we already know.
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Apple’s 2026 flagship iPhone will fold like a guide, that includes an outer show when closed and a bigger inside show when open. Apple has been working to scale back the crease, so the foldable iPhone will seem like a single piece of glass.
(*17*)In accordance to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the foldable iPhone can have a 5.5-inch outer show and a 7.8-inch internal show. When it is unfolded, it’s going to be even thinner than the iPhone 17 Air. It’s going to measure 4.5 to 4.8mm when open, and between 9 and 9.5mm when closed.
(*17*)There’ll once more be compromises, with Apple dropping Face ID and utilizing Contact ID authentication as a substitute. It is going to even be restricted to a dual-lens rear digicam, as a substitute of a triple-lens setup, although there will probably be two front-facing cameras to make certain there is a selfie cam when it is open and when it is closed.
(*17*)The foldable iPhone will probably be offered alongside extra normal iPhone 18 fashions.
2027
(*17*)For the iPhone’s twentieth anniversary in 2027, Apple has massive plans. You may suppose that the twentieth anniversary iPhone will probably be a foldable gadget, however that is not the plan.
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Apple is engaged on an iPhone with a wraparound show that curves round the entire edges, so there will probably be no bezels in any respect. It is going to seem like a single piece of glass, with no squared edges and no cutouts on the entrance.
(*17*)Apple is making ready for the all-glass iPhone with the 2025 and 2026 iPhones, and with the brand new Liquid Glass design in iOS 26.
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