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In less than a week, we will know what the iPhone 14 generation looks like and if Apple will confirm all the leaks that we already know about this quartet of company phones. One of the most frequently reported innovations is the redesign of the cutout in the display of the iPhone 14 Pro models, but the speaker also goes hand in hand with it. But nobody cares about him, which is a mistake. 

The speaker of iPhones with Touch ID was always in the middle above the display, when the front camera and the necessary sensors were centered around it. With the arrival of the iPhone X, Apple did practically nothing with it, only placed its TrueDept camera around it and again the necessary sensors, but already in the display cutout. It did not reach its appearance for three more years, when the iPhone XS (XR), 11 and 12 did not receive any redesign. Only last year with the iPhone 13, Apple reduced the entire cutout, moved the speaker more to the upper frame (and narrowed it and stretched it), and the camera and placed the sensors under him.

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The design of the iPhones is unique, but aside from the protruding camera assembly, the speaker is the biggest design file of Apple. It is not only unsightly, but also impractical. Its fine grid likes to get dirty and is relatively difficult to clean, but mainly this element is as distracting as the entire cut-out.

At the same time, we know that it can be done better in such a way that the speaker does not have to be practically visible on the front of the device. Let Samsung's Galaxy S21 series be an example. He was able to move it even higher, basically to the border between the display and the phone's frame, where it is incredibly narrow, even if noticeably longer. But this element is not visible at all at first glance. A user ignorant of the issues could even claim that Samsung phones have no speaker on their front side.

According to the first renderings and the information available so far, Apple will rework the speaker slightly again, i.e. make it narrower and longer. But it will still be here and it will still be covered by the grid. Then if you look at the materials that somehow try to describe the change in the cutout that will become the holes, they prefer to ignore the speaker completely. 

The speaker itself is also one of the components that Apple services change most often, along with the battery and broken display. If you are an avid telephone user, it will gradually become quieter. Of course, dirt and clogging of the grid does not add to it either. So let's hope that Apple will at least focus on the speaker in the iPhone 14 Pro, and not leave it in the state it is in now with the iPhone 13 or in any renders. Since he's going to remove the cutout here, one would hope that he won't forget about the speaker. 

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