Has Apple just accidentally confirmed the new design of the iPhone 12?

With just a couple of months (we hope) until the iPhone 12 is revealed, rumors have been circulating from all angles about its features and design. But the latest leak came from perhaps the most unexpected source of all: Apple itself. And it seems to confirm the most exciting iPhone design update in years.

We’ve heard that a new 5.4-inch iPhone is on the way, the smallest new model since the original 2016 iPhone SE. And in good news for fans of small phones, a feature hidden within the latest beta version of Apple’s iOS 14 seems to confirm the news. If iPhone 12 can include some amazing technology in a small package, it could be a snap to our best list of camera phones.

The feature in question is called Display Zoom, and its relevance to the alleged 5.4-inch iPhone 12 was spotted by 9to5Mac. Display Zoom is an accessibility tool that extends the iOS user interface, an effect that Apple achieves by “changing the entire system interface to that used by another smaller iPhone.”

But the 5.8-inch iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone 11 Pro have never supported Display Zoom, because there has never been a smaller iPhone with the same aspect ratio. So far, that is, the latest beta version of iOS 14 allows these phones to drop, for the first time, from 1125 x 2436 to an even lower resolution of 960 x 2079. Lo and behold, according to 9to5Mac, this would be exactly resolution of a 5.4-inch iPhone.

We were disappointed by the not-so-small size of the new 2020 iPhone SE, but the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 could be the pocket power creatives have been craving, especially given recent leaks regarding its ultra-powerful A14 chip . It seems that Apple is finally ready to cater to those who prefer to use their phones with one hand again.