The iPhone is set to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2027 and Apple is looking to bring some excitement with a bold redesign and some naming changes to go alongside it. If we’re following the numbers, the 2027 iPhone should be called iPhone 19, but Omdia senior researcher Heo Moo-yeol suggests that Apple will skip a number and go straight to iPhone 20.
The move would be similar to what Apple did with the iPhone X back in 2017. The iPhone’s tenth anniversary release marked the first major redesign in the series, whose traces are still visible to this day.
The iPhone 20 series is expected to be another turning point for iPhone design with previous reports suggesting a bezel-less display panel that, combined with the sloping lines, will make the device appear as a single piece of glass when viewed from the front.
The new report also mentions that Apple may skip the vanilla iPhone 18 next year and will instead offer Air and Pro models alongside the highly anticipated iPhone Fold. The year after, Apple is expected to bring its iPhone 20 series, which will include the vanilla model, but that one will launch in the first half of the year alongside the affordable iPhone 18e. Apple will then introduce the redesigned iPhone 20 Pro, Air and Fold 2 models at a separate event in the fall.
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