iPhones have come a long way since the first model was released back in 2007.
With new features being added with every version and iOS 18 having recently been announced with exciting updates - it’s hard to remember what the device used to look like.
But one thing that has always been a feature is the camera.
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Starting off with just one small lens, the latest model has three bulging out the back, and it’s difficult to imagine what an iPhone without any camera at all would look like.
That is until someone posted an image that many people couldn’t believe was real.
The picture uploaded to Reddit shows an iPhone with no camera, with the original poster writing: “A camera-less iPhone issued to my buddy that works at a nuclear plant. No cameras allowed.”
This baffled a lot of other users, many having never seen an iPhone without a camera before.
However, it seems that some weren’t convinced that the device was actually made by Apple.
One person claimed: “Apple themselves don’t make these phones, they’re produced by 3rd-party companies which buy from Apple and remove the cameras and sell them to government agencies.”
While someone else said that ‘our people at our plants all carry their regular cell phones’, however, added that it ‘might be different at government nuclear facilities’.
“Apple doesn’t make custom iPhones. This was done by a third party,” a third echoed.
Another Reddit post claimed to have found one in a shop, but at this moment in time, Apple does not offer iPhones without cameras - though it doesn't mean that people haven't enquired about it.
Another fan of the camera-less took to an Apple thread to ask if she could get one for her husband.
“Hello, in my husbands job the mobile with camera is forbidden for data protection etc etc, so he has an old phone with no internet no WhatsApp, only phone and sms, so I would like to buy for him an iPhone with no camera, but I don't want to pay for the nice and well developed cameras and then take them off, any advice?” they wrote.
Shutting down the idea, a response read: “Every iPhone currently has a camera on the front and back.
“There is no way to buy an iPhone that has no camera. You could disable the Camera app from the iPhone in Restrictions where you can disable features like Camera, FaceTime, Safari (Internet) etc... e.g. if you have a child.
“But from a hardware standpoint? No, sorry there is no way to remove the cameras.”
While another thread said that an ‘independent repair shop’ could remove cameras but it could ‘void your warranty’.
I mean, if it looks too weird to be true, it probably is.