A future iPhone could keep its current width while becoming shorter, with iOS preserving room for content by moving some controls into the status bar, in a theory shared by the Weibo leaker known as " Instant Digital ." Instant Digital imagines Apple shortening a non-folding iPhone once its display has only a single camera cutout or the front-facing camera moves entirely beneath the screen. Taking roughly a status bar’s worth of height off the display would bring its aspect ratio from around 19. 5:9 to closer to 18:9, apparently making the phone easier to hold and use with one hand. Controls that currently sit below the status bar could share a row with the time and system indicators. Instant Digital’s idea is that combining the two rows would let the shorter display show the same amount of information. The leaker described the layout and proportions as personal speculation. Apple has already changed how iOS uses the space at the top of the screen with the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo . The ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌’s smaller Dynamic Island supports up to three simultaneous Live Activities, up from two on earlier models. On the ‌iPhone Duo‌, iOS fits a compact status bar into the corner and positions the Dynamic Island vertically along the side of the outer display. The timing of a cutout-free display on the iPhone remains uncertain…