Photos claim to show the camera module for the iPhone 16 which dovetails with previous rumors of a vertical alignment for the lenses.
Why, it was about a week and a half ago when we told you that the latest iPhone 16 prototype included a rear camera array that looked very similar to the one used on the back of 2017’s iPhone X. If you recall, that design includes a thin camera island that ran vertically down the upper left corner of the rear panel and contained two vertically mounted cameras separated by the flash. As is its wont, Apple continued the design for the iPhone XS series before widening the island for the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 lines.
Since the iPhone 13 non-Pro models, Apple has placed the rear cameras in a box on the upper left corner of the rear panel but offset the lenses diagonally to make it look like a number two domino. However, there is speculation that Apple will return to the design used on the iPhone X (with a slightly different placement for the flash) because of the Vision Pro.
