Apple’s rumored all-glass 20th-anniversary iPhone may already be dead, according to a new analyst report claiming the company scrapped the design over production yield problems. The device was expected to mark the iPhone’s 20th anniversary in 2027 with a genuinely different look, glass wrapping around the sides and a nearly bezel-free front, with earlier reports even suggesting the front camera and Face ID would move beneath the display entirely. The reported issue is simple: Apple allegedly couldn’t manufacture the design at the scale or quality it needed.
This isn’t a clean story, though. Just weeks before this report surfaced, other reports claimed Apple’s supply chain had already finished renovating facilities to produce this exact phone, which pointed toward the project moving forward, not getting killed. That leaves two conflicting accounts sitting next to each other, and Apple hasn’t confirmed either one. A phone can absolutely go from active production prep to canceled if yields fall apart during testing, so the timeline isn’t impossible, but it does mean this cancellation claim should be read as one analyst’s take rather than settled fact.
There’s also a price angle worth remembering here. Some earlier estimates put this device’s potential average selling price around $2,060, which would have made it Apple’s most expensive iPhone by a wide margin, and a project that ambitious carries plenty of ways to stall before launch.
If the all-glass version really is off the table, Apple could still deliver a scaled-back 20th-anniversary redesign in 2027, possibly built around a smaller Dynamic Island rather than eliminating cutouts altogether. For now, treat the 2027 iPhone as unsettled rather than downgraded.
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