Below-screen Face ID all the time appears to be a yr away, and the most recent rumor now pins it to the 2026 iPhone 18 Professional and iPhone 18 Professional Max fashions.
Writing on X/Twitter in April, Younger’s authentic roadmap claimed that an under-screen Face ID iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max, would change the present digicam notch with solely pinhole front-facing cameras.
If his revised prediction is right, the 2026 iPhone 18 Professional and iPhone 18 Professional Max will now be the primary to exchange the notch and use under-screen Face ID. Non-Professional fashions of the iPhone could not achieve an under-screen Face ID function till the iPhone 19, arriving in late 2027.
Younger additionally predicted technical adjustments to the iPhone 17 vary, together with a transfer from low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) to low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) throughout all fashions in 2025. Because the iPhone 14 Pro, the LTPO show is what permits the Professional fashions to have an always-on show whereas preserving battery life.