However, in this case, Apple's replacement front camera can only be an off-screen camera. Because with Apple's personality, it is definitely impossible to use the domestic normalized lifting camera, and it is even more impossible to cancel the front camera. So there is no doubt that the answer must be the off-screen camera.
And this year, major domestic manufacturers began to show their off-screen photography technology. For example, Xiaomi and OPPO already have relatively mature off-screen camera solutions. According to reports, the specific solution is to put the camera at the bottom of the screen, and there is a refractive prism between the camera and the screen to reflect light, so that the camera at the bottom of the screen can collect light. When the camera is not used, the screen displays pictures as usual.
However, according to the existing technical level, the manufacturer has not yet had a perfect method to solve the light transmission problem of the camera under the screen. Moreover, the current off-screen camera can't fully display the pattern. After all, the screen where the camera is located is different from other parts of the screen. Therefore, it is not difficult to find that the piece where the camera is located on the screen is blurred relative to other parts of the screen, and even taking a selfie with a screen camera is like covering it with gauze. Although AI technology can deal with the gray level in photos, the definition is far from that of ordinary cameras.
As for how Apple will solve this measure, there is no relevant patent document that can be disclosed to us at present. But I believe that once Apple uses this technology, it means that the off-screen camera technology is fully mature. But Apple must have its own unique solution. As for the full-screen iPhone, let's wait and see.