Report: Apple cancels iPhone 17 Pro's new anti-reflective display
Apple will be unable to introduce a new anti-reflective coating on the iPhone 17 Pro displays, 9to5Mac reports. According to its sources, the new scratch-resistant display solution faced problems scaling up the production, and Apple is no longer considering the feature for the iPhone 17 Pro models.
The yields of the new anti-reflective coating iPhone displays was too low, considering the millions of devices that Apple needs to manufacture, even if the feature was limited only to the Pro and Pro Max units.
Currently, Apple does use a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, but it isn't as anti-reflective as competing phone manufacturers offer. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra arrived with a new Gorilla Glass Armor display panel that reduces reflections by up to 75%, visibly improving performance, contrast in bright conditions, and color trueness.
Apple incorporates a nano-texture display to reduce glare in the Mac and iPad Pro. It's still uncertain if this technology will be available for iPhones, or if Cupertino has completely abandoned plans to implement it by 2025.
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- 30 Apr 2025
- 7k3
But prices will remain same or more! What a way to milk their loyalists!
- PastTech
- 30 Apr 2025
- 7k$
first make brighter display then make anti-recflect coating to make it dimmer loop until, find something else or give more storage, then fill-up with bloatware and updates make powerful soc then bloat it software bugs loop until, find som...
- YourLocalPhoneCritic
- 30 Apr 2025
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It's only the tech enthusiast kids who don't put a screen protector on their phone that like the anti reflective coating. Some of them are too dumb to use their phone without a case. For me, if I want Privacy glass, i go get myself the...
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