It’s been broadly reported that the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max will function signficantly smaller bezels than their predecessors. In actual fact, 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 approach to the iPad.

Within the newest version of the Energy On publication, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman explains that Apple will shrink the dimensions of the bezel on the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max from 2.2 millimeters all the way down to 1.5 millimeters.

Apple will use a know-how referred to as low-injection strain over-molding to perform this on the iPhone, one thing it previosuly used on the Apple Watch. However after bringing LIPO know-how to the iPhone, Apple additionally reportedly desires to convey the function to the iPad. The report explains:

This 12 months, two of the most important modifications to the 15 line will get Apple nearer to that dream iPhone. The usual iPhone 15 fashions will commerce within the notch for the Dynamic Island, whereas the Professional and Professional Max shows might be made with a brand new know-how: low-injection strain over-molding, or “LIPO” because it’s dubbed inside Apple.

That new course of will shrink the border measurement across the show to 1.5 millimeters (from about 2.2 millimeters on present iPhones). LIPO was first used within the Apple Watch Collection 7 to make that machine’s borders thinner and enhance the dimensions of the show. And Apple plans to finally convey the function to the iPad as properly, I’m advised.

Apple is alleged to have a brand new model of the iPad Professional within the works, nevertheless it appears unlikely that the LIPO know-how. Nonetheless, Bloomberg’s report makes it clear that Apple is engaged on giving the iPad the identical visial overhaul in some unspecified time in the future, providing a significant discount in bezel sizes.

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