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What will Apple’s 10th anniversary iPhone look like?
The iPhone rocks the mobile world every single year. Are we in for a special treat next year? Only a handful of people on the planet know what the tenth anniversary iPhone will look like, and because of Apple’s legendary secrecy it is likely to remain that way for most of the next year. There are, however, some clues in recent iPhone iterations that can lead us to make educated guesses as to what to expect. We are not going to play it safe and will instead presume that Apple will push the boundaries of what is technically feasible. This starts by looking at the fingerprint sensor and Apple’s expertise with screens; it seems perfectly possible that the next iPhone could use the entire screen as a fingerprint sensor, and conversely we may also see the removal of the physical Home button, which could be replaced by a virtual one that only appears when needed. If we take this premise further, the screen could potentially fill the entire front side of the phone.

As speaker and antenna technology improve, it makes sense that the speaker at the top and the sensors could be moved to the edge, with maybe a tiny slither of hardware to allow for the front-facing camera. With this increased use of space the tenth anniversary iPhone could potentially be smaller, and there is logic in the presumption that an iPhone SE-sized device could be made with an iPhone 6-sized screen on-board. This would cater for those who like to carry their phones in a pocket, and we could then see a larger phone with a screen that is exponentially better than what we have seen. So, the front of the next iPhone could offer more than we ever hoped for, but what about the shape and size? This is difficult to gauge and much of the assumptions are reliant upon how well Apple is doing with improving battery performance in a small space.

The historic obsession with making iPhones thinner seems to be lessening somewhat and so it is quite possible that a squarer form, like the iPhone SE, could be brought back to house a battery large enough to cope with the new edge-to-edge screen. This is also a design that many feel looks better and works in a more practical way than the curved edges present in the iPhone 6 and 7. We can also expect evolutions of the camera, processor and materials used, but just maybe Apple will decide to take a leap and hit us with a completely new design that looks and feels like nothing before it. In a world where most phones look very similar no matter what operating system they use, it would be brilliant for Apple to make our mouths open in awe at a new, revolutionary design. It is also conceivable that the iPhone will become buttonless.

The recent removal of the headphone jack is a sign of intention, and if the Home button became virtual and the volume and power buttons were removed, a fully waterproof and dust-resistant phone is a genuine expectation. The improvements in iOS recently also lead us to believe that more advanced gestures could become part of the system, and this may include turning the phone on and off, changing the volume and even muting the entire device. We can already do a lot from the lock screen in iOS 10, so it makes sense to follow the curve and potentially see it replace buttons for many of your iPhone interactions, and can you imagine how sleek the phone would look with an edge-to-edge screen and no buttons?

The iPhone already does a brilliant job of making what is on the screen feel like the entire experience, and when all other physical components are removed, we will be one step closer to holding just a screen that happens to have an incredibly powerful and slim computer behind it. As we said at the start, we cannot know what will come in 2017, but it does feel as if Apple has been working to a plan. It feels as if there is an end goal in the improvements we have seen each year, and it is quite possible that the culmination of all this work could arrive in the tenth anniversary iPhone. Our fingers are crossed!
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