{"id":1483,"date":"2025-08-11T12:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:21:06","slug":"apple-applies-for-patent-on-that-single-slab-of-glass-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/apple-applies-for-patent-on-that-single-slab-of-glass-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple applies for patent on that \u2018single slab of glass\u2019 iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/Apple-applies-for-patent-on-that-single-slab-of-glass-iPhone.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/ios-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS 26<\/a> is giving us a glass-like UI, but Apple\u2019s long-term vision for the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone<\/a> hardware is what former design chief Jony Ive referred to as a \u201csingle slab of glass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new Apple patent application appears to refer to work on this, describing a \u201csix-sided glass enclosure\u201d \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"ios-26,iphone\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1013590\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/11\/apple-applies-for-patent-on-that-single-slab-of-glass-iphone\/#more-1013590\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iOS 26 is giving us a glass-like UI, but Apple\u2019s long-term vision for the iPhone hardware is what former design chief Jony Ive referred to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/apple-applies-for-patent-on-that-single-slab-of-glass-iphone\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}