Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 Professional fashions can have the thinnest bezels of any smartphone, beating the display border thinness of even its newest iPhone 15 Professional units. That is in accordance with the leaker generally known as “Ice Universe,” who has divulged correct details about Apple’s plans previously.


Based on a number of sources, regardless of minimal design modifications, each iPhone 16 Professional fashions will enhance in dimension this 12 months. The iPhone 16 Professional is claimed to be 6.3 inches (up from 6.1), whereas the iPhone 16 Professional Max is predicted to measure in at 6.9 inches (up from 6.7), doubtlessly making it Apple’s greatest iPhone ever.

However it appears that evidently Apple is not simply counting on bigger bodily dimensions to make the viewing expertise extra immersive. Based on Ice Universe, this 12 months’s Professional fashions will even have decreased bezels that could possibly be the thinnest but seen on any smartphone, together with these on the Samsung Galaxy S24.

The breakthrough for attaining this could possibly be Apple’s rumored use of Border Discount Construction (BRS) know-how, which permits for a extra compact and environment friendly structure of the circuitry underneath the show, leading to even slimmer bezels. Ice Universe didn’t point out BRS, however two rumors out of Asia have referenced the know-how in relation to iPhone 16 fashions.

Final 12 months, Apple decreased the bezels on iPhone 15 Professional fashions utilizing low-injection strain over-molding, or LIPO, to shrink the show border dimension to 1.5 millimeters (versus round 2.2 millimeters on iPhone 14 fashions). Apart from that, Apple has not considerably tweaked iPhone display sizes because the introduction of the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ 12 fashions in 2020. However as talked about, issues are set to vary with the Professional fashions within the 2024 iPhone 16 lineup.

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