If the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max should swap the notch for a hole + pill combination, the “standard” models in the upcoming range might keep this good old notch for another year. Then, according to Ross Young, Apple would switch all of its smartphones to the “hole and pill” diet in 2023, with the iPhone 15.
It’s not a fresh rumor, we already have it understood some occasions these last months. But the analyst from DCSS, a firm specializing in the screen industry, is often well informed and he women some more details in his last post (registration required).
iPhone 14 Pro: Bigger-than-expected screen pill and hole
Behind the pill would hide the components essential to the proper functioning of Face ID. The hole would serve as an opening for the selfie camera. The set would be almost as wide as the notch, but we would still gain in discretion, and this configuration would scratch a few additional pixels. Will they be of any use? Knowing that the screen of the iPhone 13 does not display more information despite its smaller notch.
In 2023, future iPhones might also benefit from a reduction in the space taken up by this pill and this hole: an image shared on Weibo (above) shows that the latter would have a diameter of 5.631 mm on the iPhone 14 Pro . It’s bigger than on the Galaxy S10 from 2019.
What follows is the total disappearance of these elements. According to Young, it is the True Depth components that might first find a discreet place under the screen, thus erasing the pill from the landscape. This is not planned for 2023, according to the analyst who points to a coordination problem between the Apple team in charge of the screen and that of the sensors. At least two suppliers must also qualify for mass production.
