The iPhone 7 Plus has a 5.5-inch display. That’s it. That’s the number. You can go home now. But wait! If you actually tried to measure the phone’s body with a ruler—which I did, much to my cat’s confusion—you’d be in for a shock. The phone itself is over 6.2 inches tall. That’s a full 0.7 inches of bezel, home button, and pure Apple arrogance lurking above and below that beautiful screen.
Think of it like a movie theater. The screen is the film, but you still have to sit through twenty minutes of trailers and a lecture about turning off your phone. That’s the bezel. It’s the unnecessary real estate that made the 7 Plus feel like a brick in your back pocket.
But Why 5.5 Inches? Why Not 5.4 or 5.6?
Good question, nerd. I respect you. Apple chose 5.5 inches back in 2014 with the iPhone 6 Plus, and they stuck with it for the 7 Plus because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, just make it slightly less slippery. The odd number was actually determined by a very complex algorithm involving pixel density, human thumb length, and the width of Tim Cook’s coffee mug. Okay, I made that last part up. But the pixel density is real: it’s a crisp 401 pixels per inch, which means you can zoom in on a photo of your dog and see the judgment in his eyes.
Here’s a surprising fact: a 5.5-inch screen is actually a diagonal measurement. It’s not width or height; it’s a hypotenuse. So if you’re thinking, “Oh, it’s only five and a half inches, that’s tiny!”—you’re wrong. Pythagoras is laughing at you from his grave. That diagonal gives you a screen that’s roughly 2.7 inches wide and 4.8 inches tall. That’s almost as wide as a slice of wonder bread, and trust me, you can feel it.
Apple iPhone 7 Plus (10th Gen) Dimensions & Drawings | Dimensions.com
