Apple applies for patent on that ‘single slab of glass’ iPhone<div class="feat-image">
</div><p><a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/ios-26/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iOS 26[/url] is giving us a glass-like UI, but Apple’s long-term vision for the <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iPhone[/url] hardware is what former design chief Jony Ive referred to as a “single slab of glass.”</p>
<p>A new Apple patent application appears to refer to work on this, describing a “six-sided glass enclosure” … </p>
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Apple applies for patent on that ‘single slab of glass’ iPhone
