iPhone 16 Pro could ship with Face ID hidden under the screen, no Dynamic Island

Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro was the newest feature and represented the first major design change in Apple’s phone series in five years. But it looks like a design change is scheduled for next year, and this “island” could be gone just two years after its debut, at least on the Pro models. It looks like Apple might be considering “hiding” these sensors.

New iPhone 16 Pro information suggests Dynamic Island is being dropped

Incidentally, rumors about the use of “under display camera” technology to hide the dot projector and infrared camera, the two components that make up the TrueDepth sensor used for Face ID, have been around for a while. However, it seems that this technology is not yet mature enough for Apple to use in 2022, when the iPhone 14 Pro debuts, and two more years of development could lead to a solution that is acceptable to the company.

Coform The Elec, the iPhone 16 Pro, the model that isn’t scheduled to arrive until next fall, in 2024, could be the one that finally hides these sensors. Apple would thus decrease the size of the “dynamic island” and keep a subtle cutout just for the front-facing camera, as we’ve seen for years on competing phones.

The same source says that after this move, Apple could also work on hiding the camera under the screen. This would deliver the first “full” screen iPhone with no cutouts since the iPhone X debuted in 2017. However, the fact that the current technology leads to a significant degradation in photo quality on cameras hidden under the screen is still a big drawback that Apple doesn’t want to apply to its phones.

By 2023, however, Apple could also bring Dynamic Island to the “standard” iPhone 14 and Plus.