The 20th anniversary iPhone could have an all-glass display and no physical buttons

A Weibo post by the leaker known as “Instant Digital” claims the 20th anniversary iPhone will have an all-glass display and no physical buttons, just haptic ones.

From the Instant Digital post: The solid-state button scheme of Apple iPhone has completed the functional verification and is planned to be mass-produced and applied on the iPhone 20 in 2027. At that time, the power button, volume button, operation button and camera control button will be upgraded to solid-state buttons with local vibration feedback!

Regarding the camera control button, we will take the lead in simplifying the structure on next year’s iPhone 18, canceling the capacitive sensing layer, and only retaining the pressure sensing identification. The subsequent iteration introduces piezoelectric ceramics for local vibration feedback to replace the demo.

Speaking of the 20th anniversary iPhone, it will adopt a Samsung-made OLED technology called COE (Color Filter on Encapsulation) to make the display brighter and thinner than previous panels, according to ETNews.

“Apple plans to apply COE to bar-type smartphones in 2027 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iPhone launch,” an unnamed “industry official” told the publication.

Rumors about about the upcoming iPhone revamp. Apple is developing a 20th anniversary iPhone for 2027 that may have a ETNews has previously reported. 

This lines up with a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. He says the 20th anniversary smartphone will have a mostly glass, curved iPhone — without any cutouts in the display.

Also, according to ETNews, the 2027 iPhone will likely have “Mobile High-Reverse Memory (HBM),” a memory that significantly increases the signal transmission speed (bandwidth) by stacking DRAM.

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