Forget iPhone 13 — new patent teases dual-screen design

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Forget iPhone 13 — new patent teases dual-screen design

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Apple could exist shaking up the iPhone and iPad designs in a large way.

Among the Apple patents published this week by the US Patent and Trademark Part (USPTO) is one that could see Apple install a second display on the dorsum of devices "configured to show text, colors, line drawings, photographs, animations, video and the similar."

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Why would this exist important? As spotted by Obviously Apple, the main purpose seems to be to improve photography of people, as the rear display could provide "stimulus features" to make subjects respond with a express mirth or smile only as the shutter closes.

Below, Manifestly Apple imagines an example where an iPad shows a subject area an Animoji panda as their photograph is taken — a handy mode of grabbing a child'southward limited attending at the key moment.

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While the report mentions that the second screen could feature Apple staples like multi-touch, its principal entreatment could be something far simpler: selfie quality. The front-facing cameras on phones tend to be inferior to the rear shooters. With a screen on the back, iPhone and iPad users could massively improve the quality of their selfies while still existence able to encounter themselves.

This could be taken a stride further: if the rear camera is all of a sudden good for selfies, then the front-facing camera could be removed birthday, ditching the need for a notch and opening up the door to a true full-screen display. That'due south likely a pace besides far, though. Apple's Face up ID relies on the clever series of sensors in the front end of the screen, then it's unlikely that the TrueDepth camera is going away someday soon.

Enough of patents never see the light of day, and if they do, they don't necessarily arrive in the form originally imagined. Only nosotros could see something like this for the eventual iPhone Flip or iPhone 14.

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing most tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine too. When non weighing upwardly the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, y'all'll probably find him tackling his always-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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