{"id":157328,"date":"2025-09-15T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:03:09","slug":"rumor-smaller-dynamic-island-but-no-under-screen-face-id-for-iphone-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157328\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: smaller Dynamic Island but no under-screen Face ID for iPhone 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Under-screen-Face-ID.jpeg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Under-screen Face ID | Existing Dynamic Island tech\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As Apple continues towards their goal of a true all-screen iPhone, it looks like the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone-18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18<\/a> will get them one step closer.<\/p>\n<p>There have long been conflicting rumors on when the Dynamic Island might finally see a design update. Most recently, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/05\/new-iphone-17-pro-leak-claims-to-show-dynamic-island-redesign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumored<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4nzk9uZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17<\/a> may have a smaller Dynamic Island, but that of course didn\u2019t pan out. However, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/5143897135\/Q4niosSS2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instant Digital on Weibo<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone-18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 18<\/a> lineup will see a narrower Dynamic Island cutout, but will not yet be making the move to an under-screen Face ID or front camera:<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 18 series is just a slightly narrower pill, it does not have a single camera, and does not have under-screen Face ID or an under-screen camera. (translated via Google Translate)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/u\/5143897135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instant Digital<\/a> has provided accurate information in the past, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/03\/07\/yellow-iphone-14-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 14 in Yellow<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/03\/08\/new-ipad-air-will-feature-landscape-front-facing-camera-new-rumor-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landscape front camera on the 2024 iPad Air<\/a>. However, they have also provided some wrong information, so keep that in mind when considering this rumor.<\/p>\n<p>Wrap up<\/p>\n<p>Since its <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/09\/07\/iphone-14-pro-features-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">introduction<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3K6Jhe1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 14 Pro<\/a>, the Dynamic Island has not changed in size or shape, so a narrower design would be a fairly significant change. It would also mean that when the Dynamic Island is in use for things like Live Activities, it would take up less space on your screen and in your status bar.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite Apple accessories:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757826487_344_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757826488_416_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4malRlB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1017520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757826489_603_im-9to5-banner-750x150-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Apple continues towards their goal of a true all-screen iPhone, it looks like the iPhone 18 will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-157328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}