Ice Universe has posted a video of a cover glass sample said to be approved for Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone, and it curves on all four sides.
Gizmochina reported on the clip, which shows the glass bending down toward the frame on every edge, with rounded corners and smaller cutouts for the front camera and Face ID sensors. Ice Universe calls it "3D quad-curved" glass. Most phones that curve their screens do it on the two long sides only. Bending all four edges is harder, and it's the look people have been describing for the 2027 iPhone for a long time: a nearly borderless front where the screen seems to spill over the edges.
Apple is expected to skip the iPhone 19 name and go straight to iPhone 20, marking two decades since the first iPhone. The rumored redesign puts glass on both the front and the back, curving into the sides so the metal frame mostly disappears when you look at the phone head on. The Pro and Pro Max are reportedly codenamed V73 and V74.
With smaller cutouts, less of the screen goes to the camera and Face ID hardware, so more of the front is picture. Gizmochina also reports bigger screens for 2027, at 6.41 inches on the Pro and 6.96 inches on the Pro Max, on a brighter, thinner Samsung OLED panel.
Apple usually locks big design choices about a year before launch, and a physical glass sample in November 2026 lines up with a fall 2027 phone. A sample isn't the shipping part, though, and Apple has backed away from more ambitious all-glass designs before.
Whether this glass ends up in your hand next fall is still Apple's call, and Apple hasn't said anything about it.
If the curved, near-borderless front is the change you've been waiting for, this is the best sign yet that it's coming in 2027.