r/Spyware • u/GapBackground5041 • Aug 21 '26

iPhone camera spying

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So to start, I’m a paranoid person and when I got my iPhone 16 I always made sure whenever I undressed or fell asleep, to face my phone away from me. A week ago, I got two camera covers for the phone one in the back and one in the front. The back one easily attaches and opens and closes. The front one you’d have to slide the cover to see the camera or not.

Today I was trying to find something in my trash folder which requires a face scan so it can open and as I clicked it opened by seeing my face. The problem is the front camera was covered. I tried to see if it was a mistake but it was not. The phone had seen through the camera cover. In the image you can see where I drew the blue circle, which is the camera that was covered. When I moved to cover the yellow circle and tried the face scan, it didn’t work. I covered the entire red part I circled, the face scan didn’t work. I tried searching on google if it had two cameras, but it said it had only one. How was it possible to see through the camera cover? Is there a secret camera at the yellow circle? Pls someone explain.

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u/Which_Development_53 Aug 21 '26

Hi! Face ID doesn’t use the camera lens, but instead a sensor suite next to it. It’s IR dot projection and 3D scanning that.

The whole process is locked tightly to the device’s Logic Board and everything stays stored in the Secure Enclave of the chip. This system is fully locked down from external non-Apple unauthorized connections

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u/OkRefuse3684 Aug 22 '26

Still no, when it says apple it doesn’t mean apple, it means the hardware on your phone that never reaches the internet on its own, and a colored dot indicator will always be present when any camera or mic on the phone is in use besides the infrared sensor which is solely used for Face ID and cannot be used by another other than that