Future MacBook notch may get replaced with removable cameras on a rotating screen
Future MacBook notch may get replaced with removable cameras on a rotating screen
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The notch could be replaced by a protruding camera -- but one which could also be repositioned. Last updated 12 hours ago. The FaceTime camera on a MacBook Pro is famously not as good as one on an iPhone, but new research shows Apple is continuing to work on it — and may have decided that the answer involves mounting larger cameras on a rotating display.
Maybe you don't give the camera notch on the MacBook Pro a second thought. But even if you loathe it, and believe it's taking up screen real estate, the one thing you can't say is that it is thick. It's quite wide, wide enough that you wonder why it doesn't include Face ID yet. But it doesn't add to the thickness of the MacBook Pro lid, and maybe it's this thickness that limits how good a camera system Apple can fit in there.
Rather than necessarily waiting for when it can make slimmer components, Apple has been investigating taking a different route. A newly-revealed patent application called "Camera integration for portable electronic devices," totally ignores trying to be slim, and instead focuses on providing the camera system the MacBook Pro needs.
What's more, while this is a new patent application, it's not a new idea. For Apple was already granted a patent of the same name and on what at least appears to be precisely the same topic, in July 2024. It's not uncommon for Apple to re-apply for a patent, and all it may really signify is that the company is continuing to pursue an idea.
