We are already used to seeing many models of Android smartphones, with those of Samsung in the lead, with a circle or hole at the top of the screen, used to house the front camera of the device. This could be precisely the future design of an iPhone, specifically the one that Apple will present in 2022, according to the famous Taiwanese analyst of the Apple world Ming-Chi Kuo.
This means that space now occupied by the flap or tab at the top of the screen would no longer be the sign that identifies an iPhone from afar, and that it has become almost a house brand, although initially, it caused quite a controversy. . With the passage of time, we have all gotten used to it and in fact many of us like that the icons in the status bar are grouped on the sides of this tab.
In any case, it is best to take this prediction from Kuo with a lot of skepticism because if the front camera is simply placed in a hole, what happens to the rest of the TrueDepth components that make Face ID work on the iPhone? There are many components there.
Now that it is normal in the world of Apple rumors to talk not about the next model but about the next two, there is still a long time for Apple to make a decision on what it will be like not the iPhone 13 or 12S, but the iPhone 14 that will come later. We will have to wait a long time seeing rumors also about a flap on the smaller screen, which have been ringing for years, before even thinking about eliminating that distinctive part of the iPhone design. Kuo tells us that this design with a hole for the front camera would be available only on the high-end models of the iPhone in 2022, that is, the Pro models.