Apple’s new iPhone path now points toward a 2027 iPhone 20, and the reported redesign goes beyond another routine annual refresh. says the 20th anniversary model will be the biggest overhaul to the device in years, with more glass and a curved glass chassis.
Tim Cook and iPhone X
Tim Cook said the iPhone X would “set the path for technology for the next decade,” and Apple announced that model in 2017. That earlier launch is the clearest yardstick for the anniversary playbook, because Apple has used milestone iPhones to reset the design language rather than just tweak the spec sheet.
Apple is about to see the iPhone 18 range, which makes the 2027 question more practical than theoretical. Apple would ordinarily be expected to release the iPhone 19 lineup that year, so any leap to iPhone 20 would signal that the company wants the anniversary branding to cover the whole family, not just one showcase model.
Apple and iPhone 19
Previous reports have said Apple will skip the iPhone 19 and go straight to iPhone 20 in recognition of the anniversary. That would leave Apple with a clean naming break, and it would also make the curved glass chassis and thinner bezels read as a family-wide reset rather than a single premium trim line.
The same report says the iPhone 20 should have thinner bezels, which means the visible change would come from the frame around the screen as much as from whatever sits inside it. For readers waiting on an upgrade cycle, the useful signal is simple: the 2027 model year is shaping up as a design reset, while Apple has still not said whether the entire lineup will carry the iPhone 20 name or only one model will.
