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Apple is exploring technology that would allow iPhones and iPads with flexible screens to automatically fold up when dropped to reduce damage.

Apple is working on technology to allow iPhones or iPads with flexible screens to detect when dropped, and immediately fold up on the way to the ground to minimize damage.

Apple is working on technology to allow iPhones or iPads with flexible screens to detect when dropped, and immediately fold up on the way to the ground to minimize damage.

Continued patent filings prove that Apple is pursuing a folding iPhone design that would utilize a sliding body, with a flexible screen.

Apple is researching the use of geared hinges that would strengthen a foldable iPhone's screen. These hinges could allow the iPhone to be folded both inwards like a book, and outwards to have a form of wraparound screen. Detail from the patent showing geared hinges on a foldable display Apple has previously applied for many patents about a foldable iPhone, ranging from slidable displays and scroll-like screens, to ones with articulated hinges. There are now so many that it's surely certain that a foldable iPhone is coming -- but also that these overlapping or conflicting r...