Apple's next Studio Display could be curved and very secure

Apple has been researching how to make privacy filters to prevent anyone but the user seeing what's on their curved screen — but Apple has never made a curved screen.

You can read too much into Apple's thousands of patent applications, but it's unlikely that the company would research a technology with no intention of using it. The six credited inventors on a new patent application did not cook this up during their lunch hour.

That's especially unlikely as the new application is "Privacy Films for Curved Displays" — and a version of it was already granted by the US Patent Office in 2023. So Apple is not only exploring the idea of curved screens, it's iterating on the idea.

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