Will the iPhone 14 Pro have a hole punch? Possibly, and under-screen Face ID

(Pocket-lint) - Although it's lone been a fewer months since the past iPhone debuted, the rumour mill is good underway for the adjacent iteration.

The latest juicy tidbits travel from a root focusing connected what the alleged iPhone 14 Pro mightiness look similar and diagnostic successful the biometrics department. 

Twitter leaker DylanDKT has claimed the iPhone 14 Pro volition diagnostic a pill-shaped hole-punch cutout for its front-facing camera, and that the bulk of Apple’s Face ID technology volition beryllium hidden nether the show alternatively than usage a ample notch. This plan could beryllium constricted to the iPhone 14 Pro models, however. It seems similar the modular iPhone 14 models are destined to support the existing Face ID notch.

Keep successful caput well-known Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo first said past year that the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max models volition usage a hole-punch design. Kuo further claimed that Apple plans to bring backmost Touch ID successful the signifier of an under-display fingerprint scanner, but that won’t hap until 2023.

Finally, DylanDKT claimed Apple volition merchandise an updated iPhone SE successful 2022. It'll look a batch similar the 2020 iPhone SE, but it introduces 5G and refreshed specs. An iPhone SE with a caller plan that's akin to the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 - but with a smaller surface - could travel successful 2024.

There's adjacent a foldable iPhone successful development. But it's successful the prototyping phase, with Apple not yet convinced astir launching 1 for consumers. 

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 6 January 2022.