Apple making ready a curved 'Liquid Glass Show' for iPhone 20? Color us intrigued

Apple’s twentieth anniversary iPhone mannequin is anticipated to make waves in 2027, with a departure from a considerably drained design language. Now we’d have just a little extra perception into the corporate’s plans.

The well-known leaker Ice Universe (through wccftech) says Apple will debut a Liquid Glass Show, which takes inspiration from the software program characteristic launched inside iOS 26 final autumn.

Basically, it’ll manifest as a delicate curve in all edges of the show, with the usage of a quad curved panel. The leaker says the Liquid Glass show would leverage the UI components to create a “rigorously engineered visible phantasm” that would make the bezel virtually disappear totally.

The leaker says this could differ significantly from the curved shows that Android producers like Samsung have chosen prior to now, which have been way more pronounced and used to show info.

Apple might outline its subsequent technology show as “Liquid Glass Show.”
It’s not a conventional quad curved show, neither is it something just like the curved display screen options we now have seen on Android telephones through the years. The curvature itself could possibly be extraordinarily delicate. What actually… pic.twitter.com/onj81yNWQf

— Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) April 27, 2026

The leaker says: “What actually creates the visible affect could also be a classy mixture of optical refraction, gentle guiding constructions, and thoroughly engineered visible phantasm.

“The tip consequence could possibly be a show the place the bezel almost disappears from sight, whereas edge viewing stays pure and undisturbed. It flows like liquid, but stays as pure and clear as glass.”

So, for those who didn’t get pleasure from Liquid Glass as a UI software, you mightn’t be thrilled to listen to it’d develop into a hardware-based characteristic too. Nonetheless, it might additionally imply that iOS 26 and iOS 27 are merely setting the stage for the principle occasion in 2027.