Apple’s 2027 flagship is shaping up to be the most dramatically redesigned iPhone in years, with supply chain leaks pointing to a quad-curved OLED display that wraps glass around all four edges of the device for a fully bezel-free front face.
Samsung Display is set to manufacture the panel, with leaked supply chain documents describing an “equal-depth quad-curved” construction that extends the curvature uniformly across all four edges of the glass rather than the shallow side-only approach seen on earlier Samsung handsets, eliminating the visible bezel boundary entirely.
The panel construction, described in leaked documents as “equal-depth quad-curved,” extends the curvature uniformly across all four edges of the glass rather than the shallow side-only approach seen on earlier handsets, which should eliminate the visible bezel boundary and create a continuous surface between the display and the chassis.
Underpinning that construction is a shift to COE (Colour Filter on Encapsulation) technology, which removes the traditional polariser layer from the display stack entirely, producing a thinner overall assembly with higher peak brightness and reduced power draw compared with conventional OLED panels in the same category.
The quad-curved form factor itself isn’t new – Huawei shipped its P40 Pro with a similar four-sided curved panel way back in April 2020 – but it has gone out of fashion in more recent years, with most now utilising completely flat screens. A trend that, ironically, was set by Apple with the release of the iPhone 12.
Beyond the display, the 2027 device would also attempt to resolve one of Apple’s longest-running hardware challenges by integrating both Face ID and the front camera beneath the screen surface, a goal that has reportedly remained unresolved across several internal development cycles despite sustained engineering effort.
Whether the device ships as the iPhone 20 or iPhone XX, with the anniversary milestone making both conventions plausible depending on which naming direction Apple’s leadership pursues ahead of a launch still more than a year away.
