We’ve been waiting for years for Apple and other smartphone vendors to deliver the perfect smartphone or a slab of glass with the display extending from corner to corner and edge to edge without any compromises. We’re getting closer to that vision, too, especially with flagship devices that feature thinner bezels than ever before.
But one “problem” remains at the top of the phone: the camera cutout. Android phones feature hole-punch designs where only the selfie camera punches through the display. The iPhone has a pill-shaped Dynamic Island that also fits the Face ID components. The Dynamic Island is the successor of the iPhone X’s infamous notch, which shrank in size in more recent models. But it’s still a huge hole in the top of your iPhone’s screen.
Before we see the selfie camera move under the iPhone screen, the Face ID components will likely be hidden. Some analysts expected the iPhone 17 to bring the first models with Face ID components placed under the screen, but that’s no longer the case.
An analyst corrected the timeline for this big iPhone design change last year. With a few months to go before the iPhone 17 series launches, an insider claims that Apple will make some design changes to the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 17 Pro Max. But Face ID won’t be dropping under the screen for quite some time.
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