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Future iPhones may utilize multi-spectral cameras for Apple Intelligence

A new rumor says that Apple is exploring the use of multi-spectral camera technology, which could be a boon for iPhone photography but may also aid Visual Intelligence.

Close-up of an orange smartphone back, showing three camera lenses, a flash, and a small microphone hole.
Apple is looking to multi-spectral technology for future iPhone cameras

The Visual Intelligence feature in Apple Intelligence keeps improving, whether it’s describing what the camera is showing, or it’s working from screengrab images. Leaker Digital Chat Station claims that Apple is looking to eventually add multi-spectral camera systems, and one benefit of this would be for Visual Intelligence.

Multi-spectral imaging captures image data across different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. All iPhone cameras to date have focused on the red, green, and blue (RGB) elements visible to the human eye.

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