20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design

It's a rumour. Nothing else. Not even Apple knows what they'll release in 2 years.
- I disagree that they don't know. This is the time to finalize what they want their 2027 iPhone to look like, especially if they're making bigger changes where development might not be as straightforward as the yearly iteration for most aspects.
  
  Well, some people in the "inner circle" might have some idea about the direction they want to take. But I very much doubt that anyone outside of that circle knows anything substantial. And in the end, that website is called MacRumors for a reason. They splurt out various things to keep people speculating and engaging with their site - which earns them money. But that's about it. I've removed them from my feed reader ages ago.

Lol. They can't even get rid of the camera dock and now all of a sudden they'll jump to no visible camera? I call BS on that.
- They could remove the Dock. They just dont want to.
  If you made a multiplayer Video game with a cult following, which cant compete even slightly to other, more modern games, would you a) just release all QoL and content stuff in a single big patch and have to compete with the better games, or b) drip feed your cult your updates slowly, doing a small update every 5 years and locking it behind a DLC, so you never have to worry about your users Adapting to modern standards and even seeing the others as an alternative?
  Thats what apple is doing. If they would just add every single modern thing into a smartphone, other smart phones would start being competition, and worse, they would have to start innovating again. Instead, they are waiting years every time they do the slightest update to their design, making sure to alter the technology enough so consumers can't adapt to modern technology without having to learn how to use it from scratch.

It's still working:
They breathe a slight breath, and everybody writes about it, and everybody reads about it...

Uh, like most modern phones?
Imo, the usability of fingerprint in-screen dropped vs. fingerprint on the back. It just needs 3 tries each.single.time and hard to do with one hand (why at the bottom, not in the center, huh?). Bad enough for me to repair the display of my old Poco F1.

Touch ID would be a nice addition and a great callback for a 20th anniversary edition.
- I liked Touch ID. I even thought the idea of some android phones of having that on the back was a cool idea. But the convenience of Face ID is hard to ignore. Maybe both?
  
  Lots of Android phones have both. Apple decided to remove it from the iPhone when it introduced Face ID. Having the both in an iPhone would be Apple catching up to everyone else.

i personally am more excited about their glasses
- Lately apple has been on a bit of a losing streak imo. The only thing they are doing right are their M line chips.

Maybe the rest will finally follow suit when Apple drops the obnoxious cutouts and punchholes. can't wait to have more than 2 phones available again

The all-screen design would likely be reserved for higher-end iPhones, so it is likely coming on the iPhone 19 Pro models in September 2027.
I highly doubt they are going to release an iPhone 19. I expect they will skip to 20 for the anniversary like they did with the iPhone X.

I like the idea of a folding phone very much. Especially because of the bigger screen and the free benefit of essentially a built in screen protection when it’s in your pocket (because it’s folded on itself). What I don’t like is the inevitable crease that shows up in the screen after a year of use from the ones I’ve seen already. If Apple has solved that I’m all in.