With a lot of rumours and gossips, Cupertino giant deliberately released iPhone X in 2018 with a trend of sporting with notch design and offering face unlock with which it made Apple fans to expect a few hardware upgrades in next year.W hile Apple is working on the same thing . Apple is working on a triple-lens camera for at least one of the iPhones the company plans to launch in 2019, Economic Daily News is reporting, citing a research note from Deutsche Securities analyst Jialin Lu.

A new iphone model for upcoming year with not just a dual rear camera setup but a triple-lens rear camera setup. According to a news report, the triple camera setup will come with a 3D depth sensing and enhanced zoom. Two of the sensors would snap photos that would be taken at different angles.

Perhaps more importantly to Apple, the triple-lens camera could enhance the iPhone’s augmented reality features. Apple has been clear that it believes augmented reality is a critical technology going forward. CEO Tim Cook has also suggested that with the right slate of features, augmented reality could become much bigger and far more important than virtual reality.

In addition to 3D sensing, the rear camera would greatly enhance zoom capabilities, according to the report. The third lens could come with a 3x optical zoom, making it the best zoom ever offered in an iPhone. Current iPhones, including the iPhone X, have a 2x optical zoom.

The latest development will make the new iPhone model follow the Huawei P20 Pro that had already introduced a triple rear camera setup. The Huawei P20 Pro camera comes with a 40-megapixel lens, a 20-megapixel monochrome lens, and an eight-megapixel telephoto lens with up to 3x optical zoom.

Apple has apparently not decided how many iPhone models should feature triple-lens cameras. For now, the analyst would only say that at least one model would.