Apple's iPhone 16 Pro could have world's thinnest bezels

coolfactor said:

This bizarre fixation on thin bezels is... bizarre. Don't these people realize that the bezel serves a functional purpose? Two, actually.

1. More accurate colour reproduction by creating a border where light can't "leak" into the image being viewed.

2. Unintended touch. Even with my 13 Pro, this issue continues to aggravate my usage of the phone. I often need to readjust my grip to restore accuracy with my intended touches.

No one cares about about bezel thickness now. In the past, thick bezels were an issue as they were very prominent. However, it's been years since the industry hit almost invisible bezels, mostly the side bezels where the sensation of thickness is more noticeable. 

The bottom bezel is where they are more noticeable nowadays and I'd hazard a guess this is where this rumour is focused. 

That's fine, as it's somewhere an extra millimeter of screenspace might be gained. The problem is that no one cares, as that bezel, while technically 'thicker' is already thin enough to not be an issue.

The other non-issue is symmetry. Again no one cares because they never 'see' the slight asymmetrical form of bezels. 

As far as unintentional touch is concerned, I can only speak from my experience over more than two years with a phone whose side bezels are so thin that the official case for it does not actually reach the sides. It has slightly elevated protections on the top and bottom corners.

In that context, unintentional touch for me has been zero. 

With a case on mine, a thin bezel makes the case the limitation.  Fine with me.  

The thinner bezels on the last model have been causing me issues while playing games.

While holding the phone, the skin under my thumbs wraps around the phone and touches the screen, so the phone thinks I am performing a two finger gesture instead of a a tap.

Thinner bezels will only exacerbate this issue even more.

Makes sense--fight to remove maybe an extra quarter-millimeter of the already barely there bezel, but leave us with Dynamic Black Hole Island floating in the middle of our screens. It's Apple's way of punishing us for hating on the Notch.