iPhone 7 Plus leaked pictures appear to show phone will have dual-lens camera – and an even bigger bulge on the back

The little bulge coming out of the back of the iPhone has also arrived on the iPad, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere

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Apple is gearing up to put a dual-lens camera into its iPhone 7 Plus, according to reports – and the new phone could have an even bigger bulge on the back.

The company has long been rumoured to be integrating dual-lens technology into the bigger version of its next iPhone. The feature allows cameras to take much deeper, more detailed photos by taking two photos next to each other, rather than one.

But new detail from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo restates that prediction and says that the new camera will be limited to the bigger phone but there won’t be a single-camera version. The phone will also have its RAM upgrade to 3GB to help the phone deal with extra work required to do to process such photos.

The news is good for the many customers that now use their iPhone as their primary camera. Some integrations of such a set-up can allow the phones to take SLR-level pictures, with much more depth and clarity than those taken with a single camera.

But it also means that the camera bulge that sticks out of the back of the iPhone 6 is set to continue onto the new phone, if leaked photos of the case are to be believed. And because the phone has to put the two lenses next to each other, that bulge might be even larger – wide enough to incorporate two cameras on the back of the phone rather than just one.

That camera bulge has proved controversial with many users, who say that it is ugly. It also means that the phone can’t sit straight on a flat surface, since the extra part of the phone leads it to wobble.

Apple doesn’t seem concerned about those complaints, releasing the iPad Pro in March with its own little camera bulge sticking out of the back. That doesn’t cause the device to wobble but still sticks out – a fact that Apple didn’t shy away from showing in its introductory videos.

A range of other rumours have emerged about the iPhone 7, including reports that have suggested it will include the Smart Connector from the iPad Pro and that it will remove the headphone jack.