Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone

In recent years, the best iPhone leaks have come ’accidentally’ from Apple, and it happens too frequently to be a coincidence. Now, with iPhone sales stalling and talk of further price cuts, Apple AAPL +0.62% is again looking to change the narrative by subtly teasing a red-hot new iPhone upgrade…

Discovered by fan site AppleInsider, Apple has quietly filed a patent detailing how new iPhones will be able to tell you want to take a photo and automatically open the camera. Furthermore, the hardware required to do this has already been confirmed as a feature coming to iPhones this year.
Filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, Apple breaks down the “Apparatus and method for automatically activating a camera application based on detecting an intent to capture a photograph or a video.”

It works by recognising the motion made by a user to lift their iPhone into a typical photography position, then scanning for the proximity of a subject in the frame. If both criteria are met, the camera will open automatically.

This may feel like magic to some and horribly invasive to others (Apple will limit users to reviewing only the photos just they shot) but, either way, the technology to do this is coming soon.

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