iPhone 14 lineup to reportedly feature pill-shaped cutout to house the front-facing camera

It should be noted that reports point that the Apple iPhone 14 will retain the notch but the Pro will come with a new pill-shaped punch-hole cutout. This doesn’t coincide with what Apple had said earlier that the notch was necessary to house the required sensors for the front-facing camera and face ID. It should be interesting to see how Apple manages to house so many sensors under the tiny notch area. Prior to this report, a Korea-based publication, The Elec had claimed the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max will come with a punch-hole cutout on the screen instead of a notch.

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had claimed the iPhone 14 models will have a punch-hole cutout. Since there are multiple reports about the same design, it looks almost confirmed. Apple had first introduced the notch with the iPhone X and has retained the same since then. However, the size has shrunk but with the recent iPhone 13. The notch houses a TrueDepth camera array that includes an infrared camera, front camera, dot projector, and a flood illuminator.

There are rumours claiming the company may adopt a laser-based time-of-flight architecture for Face ID and a unibody lens design that would help it reduce the size of the front-camera module.