According to Gurman, the Liquid Glass interface will impact hardware, too, most notably with the 20th anniversary iPhone coming in 2027. The new model, internally called “Glasswing,” will have curved glass on all sides with “extraordinarily slim bezels and no cutout section in the screen.”

Liquid Glass' will introduce glossy, translucent elements across the interface, suggesting a more immersive, fluid experience that Mark Gurman says is designed to echo the 20th anniversary iPhone that it will eventually run on.

We're just a week away from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, when we get the first look at what the company has been cooking up during the past year for iOS 19, the software that runs the iPhone.