It’s been broadly reported that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will characteristic signficantly smaller bezels than their predecessors. In truth, a number of completely different CAD drawings obtained by 9to5Mac have allowed us to visualise these modifications.

Now, Bloomberg has extra particulars on these modifications, and hints that the redesign might additionally make its technique to the iPad.

In the newest version of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman explains that Apple will shrink the scale of the bezel on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max from 2.2 millimeters right down to 1.5 millimeters.

Apple will use a expertise referred to as low-injection stress over-molding to perform this on the iPhone, one thing it previosuly used on the Apple Watch. But after bringing LIPO expertise to the iPhone, Apple additionally reportedly needs to deliver the characteristic to the iPad. The report explains:

This 12 months, two of the largest modifications to the 15 line will get Apple nearer to that dream iPhone. The customary iPhone 15 fashions will commerce within the notch for the Dynamic Island, whereas the Pro and Pro Max shows can be made with a brand new expertise: low-injection stress over-molding, or “LIPO” because it’s dubbed inside Apple.

That new course of will shrink the border dimension across the show to 1.5 millimeters (from about 2.2 millimeters on present iPhones). LIPO was first used within the Apple Watch Series 7 to make that system’s borders thinner and improve the scale of the show. And Apple plans to ultimately deliver the characteristic to the iPad as effectively, I’m advised.

Apple is claimed to have a new version of the iPad Pro within the works, nevertheless it appears unlikely that the LIPO expertise. Still, Bloomberg’s report makes it clear that Apple is engaged on giving the iPad the identical visial overhaul sooner or later, providing a serious discount in bezel sizes.

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