iPhone 14 Pro: Will it have a hole-punch camera and under-screen Face ID?

The iPhone 14 Pro series will sport a pill-shaped hole-punch design for its front-facing camera, with the bulk of Apple's Face ID technology being positioned beneath the display, according to Twitter leaker DylanDKT (instead of an eyesore of a notch). The story backs with prior reports from respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from late last year, who predicted that the camera on the 2022 iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max will be replaced by a hole-punch cutout.

With last year's iPhone 13 series, Apple introduced its first big update to the iPhone's Face ID notch, which had a slightly smaller notch than the original design that Apple has employed since 2017's iPhone X. Moving the Face ID array beneath the screen while maintaining a cutout makes sense for a couple of reasons: Face ID's IR-based setup would be less affected by the haziness and weak colors that plague current under-display front-facing cameras, and shrinking the iPhone 14 Pro's notch to a smaller cutout would put Apple back on par with Android competitors, who have long since left Apple's oversized notch in the dust with years of diminutive camera cutout designs.