A new report obviously predicts that Apple wants to replace the iPhone Duo's existing Touch ID with Face ID as soon as possible, and suggests that Apple Intelligence might help.

Touch ID is easily the most apparent compromise in the iPhone Duo, and Apple has had to go back it because of that model's slim chassis. It was not physically possible to fit the usual Face ID components into that space.

Now Bloomberg has made the obvious prediction that Apple will be working to add Face ID to future generations of the iPhone Duo. But it's also suggested that AI could be part of the solution.

The claim is that Apple Intelligence could ultimately help with not just the iPhone's computational photography, but also all of its image processing. So Apple could in theory use less sophisticated depth-sensing camera systems and let AI take up more of the processing role.

That would then presumably mean that the physical Face ID components could be smaller. The prediction is that this will not happen until the third generation of the iPhone Duo, by which time the report also expects the model to gain a telephoto camera.

This is also an obvious prediction and the third generation iPhone Duo is sufficiently far off to make it an easy guess. But the suggestion of AI augmenting the hardware components would fit Apple's unusual ability of entirely controlling its software and hardware together.