The iPhone 12 Pro: moving beyond the notch.
Will the next iPhones have a notch? In the article you will find the possible solutions that Apple could adopt to avoid a notch, and my design solution (hand drawing) at the end.
The iPhone 12 is coming, perhaps delayed a bit by the Coronavirus, and this year the wait to know how it will be is spasmodic, because after 3 years during which Apple has maintained the same design, there should be “the revolution” .
As noted earlier, Apple has gone from a 2-year design cycle to a 3–4 year design cycle, but now the time for change has come.
Yes notch or not to notch?
The iPhone X notch was a necessary compromise to obtain an almost borderless phone: a full body OLED display, but the cameras and sensors had to be positioned at the top in a “notch”.
The notch was the engineers’ victory over the designers, then “re-framed” by the Apple narrative.
At the time of the launch there was an initial wave of irony about it, between memes and parodies, but the firmness with which Apple has kept the notch intact has gradually accustomed everyone to the presence of a…
