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Connor Jewiss

Apple's foldable iPhone might have a self-healing screen when it finally launches

IPhone fold mockup.

We know that Apple is working on a foldable iPhone. In fact, a more recent report informs us that the tech giant is working on two – one that folds like a book, and the other clamshell style. Apple has been exploring these products for over a decade, and is developing its own tech for them, and that includes the display. A recent patent gives us a look at what Apple's been working on, and it might be a foldable screen we've never seen before.

The patent, first spotted by Patently Apple, outlines Apple’s vision for a foldable device that could self-heal. There'll be a new self-healing layer that makes your phone almost invincible to the daily grind. Unlike Samsung’s foldables or any other alternative, Apple’s bendy phone would feature a coating that “may fill the dent even without external intervention.”

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