iPhone 16 Pro’s camera could fix lens flare and ghosting issues

Nearly all modern flagships take great photos, with Apple’s iPhone, Samsung’s S series, and Google’s Pixel line often being cited as featuring the best mobile shooters out there.

While I primarily use an iPhone to snap photos when I’m on the go and don’t have me DSLR on me, I’m often disappointed with how the smartphone’s camera system handles lens flare and ghosting, particularly under varied lighting conditions at night (sometimes, it feels like I’m in a J.J. Abrams movie with all the wild lens flare).

Apple is considering bringing atomic layer deposition (ALD) to the iPhone 16 Pro’s camera manufacturing process.

At a base level, this allows for more control over “thickness and composition,” according to MacRumors, including adding thin layers of material to semiconductors and, in this case, an anti-reflective coating to camera parts.

This coating minimizes the weird flare and ghosting issues that can sometimes occur with iPhone photos.

According to the Naver blog post, the anti-reflective coating will only make its way to the iPhone 16 Pro series.