The iPhone may get even slimmer next year

One of the perks of making an ‘all-Apple’ smartphone where both the hardware and software are made by Apple, is superior optimisation. Among other aspects like good performance, seamless optimisation on an iPhone also allows for better battery life. While some brands would see that as an opportunity to achieve more juice with the same cell, that is not the Apple way.

The iPhone maker has instead set its sights on making its products thinner. We already saw this with the new iPads launched earlier this year, which leverage better battery life to actually go thinner while providing users with roughly the same number of usage hours. Reports now suggest we could be seeing a similar approach with iPhones.

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According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has accurately predicted several Apple designs and features over the years, the tech giant is aiming to create “the thinnest and lightest products in their categories across the whole tech industry.”

This points to a skinnier iPhone too, but it still is over 12 months away. The change is expected to hit the iPhone 17 series (or whatever Apple decides to call it) in 2025, and not the iPhone 16 series we’re expecting this year.

It’s not just the iPhone

Apple’s thin-design approach will likely see most of its products shrinking in the third dimension. Gurman previously also reported a major redesign for the next Apple Watch, which will mark a decade of the wearable’s release and could be called the “Apple Watch X” akin to 2017 iPhone X, which also marked 10 years of the iPhone’s evolution.

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Apple’s MacBooks, which are already considered the benchmark in thin-and-light laptops, could be next, coming in even slimmer form factors.

Of course, most of this is just speculation for now, and we will have to wait over a year for the new breed of slim Apple products to hit the market. That said, if you were planning to upgrade your iPhone this year, you now have at least one reason to hold on to your wallets.