For a while, a translation error led to reports of Apple switching to a punch hole camera instead. Prominent tech leaker Fpt, who also makes renders of upcoming Apple products, also made an iPhone 18 Pro render that featured this punch hole design.

A much better solution

Personally, news of this smaller Dynamic Island made me breathe a sigh of relief. Though I dislike the trend of notches and cutouts on phone displays, I’ve always found Dynamic Island to be the most aesthetically pleasing solution, despite it taking up more screen real estate.It’s also a very unique approach to the cutout trend, so much so that other phone makers are now adopting it across their own flagship smartphones as well. For Apple to switch to a standard punch hole design would have been a very odd move, and the company would have risked its phones looking like any other Android phone, at least from the front.Now, let’s just hope that production for the cutout-free iPhone 20 Pro remains on schedule, because I’m really hoping that it kicks off a new trend across the industry.