Apple is finally planning to kill the inelegant kludge (notch) exclusively in the the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max later this year, replacing it with a less obtrusive pill and hole punch design to house the front-facing TrueDepth Camera system.
Recently, the YouTube channel Tech Blood put together an artist’s conception video of the expected iPhone 14 Pro design.
Last month, Display analyst Ross Young reiterated his expectations for the iPhone 14 lineup and provided some color on what’s coming in the future.
The pill and hole punch TrueDepth camera system is going to be about the same width as the notch, according to Young, but it will “certainly save some pixels above the holes.”
The new design will be exclusive to Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro models in 2022, but Young believes that Apple will expand the pill and hole punch design to the entire iPhone 15 lineup in 2023.
Apple’s next-gen iPhone 14 Pro models will get thicker and have a more prominent camera bump on both Pro models, as shared by Max Weinbach on Twitter in March:
14 Pro and 14 Pro Max pic.twitter.com/39TMqVTFVc
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) March 22, 2022
MacDailyNews Take: Good riddance, inelegant kludge!
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Uh… John Prosser already unveiled this info MONTHS ago.
This is just as inelegant. At least the notch is a single obstruction with left-right symmetry. Two separate different holes in display is better? And the huge camera bump looks ridiculous. I joke before that the bump will be double the thickness of rest of iPhone at some point. It’s actually getting there, AND rest of iPhone is getting thicker too. This rumor makes one-handed notchless (or holeless) super-thin iPhone SE with single bumpless back camera look supremely optimal and elegant.
OH, I GET IT!
It’s an ‘I’ laying down! You could say, it’s lazy!
It’s a lazy i … it’s lazy-i iPhone!
Don’t mind the notch at all. It was fun on the iPhone X, is fine on my iPhone 12 Pro and I don’t mind it on my 14 inch MBPro. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
It’s always there ugly, front and center, useless waste of space and pay attention: steps on your content. See Android phones for a more elegant solution Apple has yet to figure out…
More elegant? Perhaps. But they’re Android so the beauty is only skin deep. As someone who used to work in IT security I’d never trust an Android device.