Under-screen Face ID allegedly pushed back to 2026 iPhone 18 Pro
Under-screen Face ID always seems to be a year away, and the latest rumor now pins it to the 2026 iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max models.

iPhone 15 always-on display
Writing on X/Twitter in April, Display Supply Consultants' Ross Young's original roadmap claimed that an under-screen Face ID iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max would replace the existing camera notch with only pinhole front-facing cameras.
However, Young has tweaked that a bit. He says he has heard that under-screen Face ID is being pushed back a year to 2026.
If his revised prediction is correct, the 2026 iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will now be the first to replace the notch and use under-screen Face ID. Non-Pro models of the iPhone may not gain an under-screen Face ID feature until the iPhone 19, arriving in late 2027.
Young also predicted technical changes to the iPhone 17 range, including a move from low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) to low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) across all models in 2025. Since the iPhone 14 Pro, the LTPO display is what allows the Pro models to have an always-on display while preserving battery life.
Young sticks by his prediction that all models of the iPhone 17, expected in the fall of 2025, will use an LTPO backplane. This suggests the "always-on" feature will become standard across all models.
Rumor Score: Possible
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Then you sayiDynamic Island is more visually intrusive than the notch. Well of course it is! The whole fucking point is that it's dynamically changing what it shows the user based on how the device is being utilized.
Personally I'd love for it to get more sophisticated with the next version of iOS.
We've heard this story for years
Personally I don't want a punch hole, that does nothing, making the iPhone look exactly like every other ANDROID.
Cook is penny-pinching but he is not running a socialist enterprise. He would love to boost sales but he can't. Michael Dell suggested that Apple should give shareholders their money back. Cook is doing exactly that.
The biometrically secure feature should be coming to Android phones next year, not impossible for late this year, courtesy of Trinamix and Qualcomm. Apple integrating the same feature in at least their 2025 iPhone Pro line would not be any shock to me (and yes I understand that the phone design is already locked in place), with 2026 a sure thing if some Android phones already have it.
If you disagree then by all means show me evidence of a single iPhone or iPad on the market that has it and I'll gladly acknowledge that I'm wrong.
on sales volume. Most people will still upgrade on their own schedule or installment plan they have, not on a whim. I’m really thinking about getting an iPhone 15 and think the dynamic island is no worse than the notch and may even be better.