According to reports, Apple’s next iPhone may feature an improved selfie camera with autofocus and a larger aperture. a forecast The famous analyst Guo Mingchi. Unlike Apple’s current fixed-focus design, the front-facing camera with autofocus allows the iPhone 14 to take sharper photos even when you’re closer or farther from the camera. A wider aperture — Kuo predicts f/1.9 versus the iPhone 13’s f/2.2 — adds a little more background blur and lets in more light, making it better for nighttime selfies or FaceTime portrait mode.
Kuo and others predict that Apple will move away from the notch on the iPhone 14 Pro in favor of a hole-punch design. While it does mean that Apple has to fit the upgraded camera into a smaller space, it’s not an unprecedented challenge — the selfie camera on the Samsung Galaxy S22 has autofocus and sits inside a circular cutout. It’s worth noting that while Samsung has had an autofocus front-facing camera for years, it’s not a common feature of other manufacturers. The selfie cameras on the latest flagships from Google and OnePlus are fixed focus.
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Autofocus support and lower f-numbers allow for better shallow depth-of-field effects for selfie/portrait modes. In addition, AF can also enhance the focus effect of FaceTime / video call / live broadcast.
— Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) April 19, 2022
Kuo’s tweet says the upgraded front-facing camera could be on “four new iPhone 14 models,” meaning Apple won’t make better selfies a selling point for its Pro phones (though that won’t be the case). A huge surprise, as better camera systems have always been a mainstay of the Pro line). Good to hear this, especially since the iPhone 14 Pro is rumored to feature an A16 series processor, while the current-generation A15 processor will power the regular model, and Apple will also increase the rear camera resolution on its high-end phones .
While I’ve found the iPhone’s current front-facing camera to be completely serviceable, it may require some attention. Apple brought Night Mode to the iPhone 12’s selfie camera, but its aperture hasn’t improved since the iPhone 6 (though obviously that’s not the end, it’s all about quality).
