Blinking of the front camera

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hristo224 Author

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Blinking of the front camera

Hello. I have an infrared camera. I saw that the front camera of my iPhone XS is blinking. Why is that happening?

Posted on Nov 15, 2019 9:57 AM

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hristo224 Author

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Nov 19, 2019 11:58 PM in response to brenden dv

Hi. The “problem” is that the phone was on the table and no one is close to it. So it is strange to be because of the Face ID. I saw that the camera blinks after receiving an e-mails or other notifications. But sometimes it blinks without any notification while the phone is left on the table and no one is close to it. My previous IPhone 6s front camera also blinked on infrared.

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brenden dv

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Nov 18, 2019 1:19 PM in response to hristo224

Hey hristo224,

If I understand correctly, you can see light coming from the front facing camera when you look through an infrared camera. This can happen because of Face ID.

"The TrueDepth camera captures accurate face data by projecting and analyzing over 30,000 invisible dots to create a depth map of your face and also captures an infrared image of your face."

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Blinking of the front camera

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