Next Year's iPhone 16 Pro Still on Track to Feature Under-Display Face ID, Followed By Under-Display Selfie Camera in 2026

[Vasilioskn]

The Dynamic Island isn’t going anywhere. It just won’t show 100% of the time since it won’t have to.

Hopefully there will be an option to turn it off.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Any chance of peek and pop making a comeback ?

 

[thatguywill]

Any chance of peek and pop making a comeback ?

Yeah 3D Touch is greatly missed

 

[bb9]

The sooner we get this the better 🤞🤞👍

 

[Razorpit]

Any chance of peek and pop making a comeback ?

Unfortunately that ship has sailed.

 

[SFjohn]

I’ll believe this when it happens, not before…

 

[groove-agent]

So Samsung has under screen cameras now but we have to wait 3 years to see it on the iPhone? Not that Apple or anyone else would care, but I'm seriously looking at going back to the "dark side" (Android/ Windows) during Apple's second innovation slump. The first slump is when Tim Cook took over and most of the Mac product line wasn't getting updated. Apple just seems complacent and not really creating the usual "game-changing" tech. Now other companies have caught up and are offering more interesting and innovative products. I'm hoping Apple's is simply ramping up something big like A/R.

I love how the article states:

The Pro models will be first to feature new display innovations, as first seen last year with the Dynamic Island exclusive to the ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌

The Dynamic Island is hardly a "display innovation". They simply created a cutesy notification area to hide the pill. In the end, the pill actually consumes more screen because it renders the area between the pill and the top of the screen unusable.

 

[East India Company]

I just hope my Xr will last until then

 

[CarAnalogy]

Hopefully they go back to making them lighter and thinner. What happened to that? These things are massive bricks year after year now.

Jony Ive is cackling somewhere.

 

[gund1234]

Hopefully they go back to making them lighter and thinner. What happened to that? These things are massive bricks year after year now.

When Ive was pushing Apple engineers to make products thinner, people complained, now Ive is gone and finally Apple is making phones thicker, people are complaining.

 

[sorgo †]

I will gladly hold onto my 13 mini until we've arrived at something without pills, notches, or holes

 

[Born Again]

The quality of the images shown on the display and the quality of images captured by the camera will be lower if this rumor is true.

So you’re on team notch?

When Ive was pushing Apple engineers to make products thinner, people complained, now Ive is gone and finally Apple is making phones thicker, people are complaining.

Woa woa - we like it thick!

 

[Serqetry]

Lol how could he possibly know what Apple will do with the iPhone 18? Apple rumors these days are so absurd.

 

[svish]

Very early rumours. But I think under panel camera might happen only in 2027, with the 20th anniversary of iPhone.

 

[Nicky G]

What I'm really curious about is the main camera array roadmap. Is periscope coming to the normal-sized Pro any time soon? This might well drive my next purchase decision.

 

[Gengar]

Phones are commodities. You can have an amazing smartphone for $200. The lock in is iMessage. If Americans switched to a different messaging app, Apple would be finished. Europeans, and Asians, are, in general, a bit brighter than us stupid Americans, and aren't iMessageHeads. That's why Apple holds no sway there.

So I can trust Meta’s WhatsApp? 😂

 

[ThomasJL]

So you’re on team notch?

Hell no! I’m on team bezel. In fact, I’m team captain of team bezel. See my OP below to see what I mean:

The bezel-lovers coming out of the closet thread

Bezel-lovers of the world, UNITE! Let's unite under this one thread. It's time for us to come out of the closet and declare our love for bezels. I'll start. I'm ThomasJL, and I'm a bezel-lover. I love how bezels make room for a home button. I love how bezels allow for Touch ID. I love how...

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[Skyscraperfan]

The current visible front camera can already spy on us… we’re completely reliant on trusting the software to indicate that the camera is being used now.

At least you know where it is. So you could put a sticker on it. That's what many people already do with their notebook. At an ATM for example I cover the camera with my hand. If it is under the display, I do not know which part I have to cover.

I always wondered why camera indicators are done by software. They should just physically be wired to the camera. So whenever the camera gets power, the indicator lamp gets power too. With that physical connection no hacker would be able to power the camera, but not the indicator lamp. The same trick could work with microphones, which are much harder to cover than a camera.

 

[Marty80]

Bring on the iPhone 16 ultra, my iPhone 12 Pro Max is starting to feel its age.

 

[Denzo]

I’m ready for my breathe to be taken away. How man more MP camera bump and battery can we all swallow for the cost of admission these days.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

Bring touch id under display

 

[brandoman]

8+ was the greatest phone ever. That phone, remade with a better camera and go back to the all metal (or even better, plastic) back, would be an instant buy, at any price, as much as I despise Apple under current leadership. That screen was never before, and has never since, been equalled. Home button, touch ID, no notch, incredible DPI with totally invisible pixels. What the heck happened... 🙁

Yes!! Bring back Touch ID.

 

[_Spinn_]

This timeline makes sense. I can’t wait for everything to disappear under the screen.