20th-Anniversary iPhone May Not Feature an All-Screen Design After All

Apple is rumored to be planning a redesigned iPhone model for release in 2027, to mark the 20th anniversary of the device's launch. However, a source with a proven track record has now cast doubt on the device featuring an all-screen design.

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In his Power On newsletter last month, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple was planning a 20th-anniversary iPhone model "without any cutouts in the display." He later added that the device would have "extraordinarily slim bezels" around the screen, along with "curved glass sides around the entire phone, even at the edges."

In a post on X today, however, Counterpoint Research VP Ross Young revised his expectations for future iPhone displays. He now believes that the first iPhone with both under-screen Face ID and an under-screen front camera will be released all the way in 2030, suggesting that a truly all-screen iPhone remains a full five years away.

At one point, Young expected an iPhone with under-screen Face ID and an under-screen front camera to launch as early as 2027, so his current expectation of 2030 is disappointing news for Apple fans, if accurate. At the same time, it is not too shocking, as an all-screen iPhone is one of those rumors that seems to get pushed back over and over again.

Gurman and Young both have very good track records with Apple rumors, but their timelines for an all-screen iPhone now differ, so we will have to wait and see if Gurman responds. If we go by the latest word from Young, though, the 20th-anniversary iPhone might not be the ambitious, all-screen model that Apple fans have long dreamed of.

Gurman and Young have shared conflicting information in the past. In February 2024, Young was first to report that the rumored micro-LED Apple Watch Ultra was canceled. In a since-deleted post on X, Gurman responded by telling Young that he was looking forward to wearing his micro-LED Apple Watch in a few more years. A few weeks later, Gurman relented and reported that the micro-LED Apple Watch project had been canceled.

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Top Rated Comments

sunapple Avatar
14 weeks ago

Wow-another deadline miss

Apple has the slowest innovation out of most major phone makers-it's getting embarrassing
Yeah it is almost starting to seem useless that Gurman and Young put out these deadlines, only for Apple to miss them all the time.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
watergap Avatar
14 weeks ago
But it may add a new color :)
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Aleh Avatar
14 weeks ago

I mean... the 10th anniversary device - the iPhone X - also had a design that was already dated by the time it came out. Competitors already had much smaller notches even in low end devices. Why are we surprised by this again?
None (and I mean NONE) of the phones at the time of the iPhone X had uniform bezels on all sides, and it’s not like they had Face ID hardware in their notches either. They aren’t comparable at all.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Chiromac81 Avatar
14 weeks ago
Wow-another deadline miss

Apple has the slowest innovation out of most major phone makers-it's getting embarrassing
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
thiscatisfat Avatar
14 weeks ago

Wow-another deadline miss

Apple has the slowest innovation out of most major phone makers-it's getting embarrassing
While I remember people saying the exact same thing just before 5S and after iPhone 5 came out (can't innovate anymore my ass), and I disagreed strongly with this type of statements, in today's world and with where Apple is at the moment and what they're producing? Definitively, 100% agreed. Apple is uninspired, boring, can't believe we have iPhone looking more or less the same since 2020 and will continue to be the same. It's hard to be an Apple fan nowadays, more fans are turning into haters - this is a fact, watch Apple Explained and you'll see how broken the hardest Apple fans are with today's Apple.

Not only is iOS 26 disappointing and not at all as big of a change as Craig made it out to be, iPhone is stale as well. Macs are good, Apple's Mac lineup is very strong in my opinion. But the best seller - iPhone - bland.

Apple has always been narcissistic on the inside, but at least they used to deliver. Now it's just being narcissistic and delusional as well.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Kylo83 Avatar
14 weeks ago
I knew it was to good to be true, this is Apple now days, it won’t be until 2031
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)