Smartphone manufacturers have all reached a general plateau in smartphone hardware, which means the roads to progress are significantly fewer than they used to be a decade or even half a decade ago.
The company has already made some strides with the iPhone’s display durability when it introduced the so-called “Ceramic Shield” alongside the launch of thein 2020. This upgrade did improve the display’s resistance to scratches, but the more significant benefit was a higher resistance to drops, reducing the dreaded web of glass cracks iPhone's were known for.
According to Instant Digital, this next screen durability upgrade will focus more on scratch resistance, but just how much the glass would be able to withstand scratches is still unclear. That said, the tech giant is allegedly investing “billions on coating equipment in Japan, which has been handed over to China's supply chain." If that is true, it is safe to assume we will be seeing the results of those investments in the future.
Speaking of the future, the Weibo post states that the increased scratch resistance most likely won’t be featured on thecoming this year. Instead, the scratch-resistant displays will probably come with the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, which should arrive in 2025. As for what will make this upgrade possible, the leaker mentions that"the outer glass of the iPhone 17 series will be made into a super-hard AR layer.” AR, in this case, we assume stands for the anti-reflection layer, which leads us to think that Apple might be trying to implement something similar to theA discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.