Apple is enhancing its webcam on the shiny new M2 MacBooks, however for these of us nonetheless chugging alongside on our current MacBooks, we’ll have the ability to use our iPhones as webcams ( … if we don’t wish to sneak a take a look at our cellphone throughout a Zoom assembly).

Later this yr, Apple will start promoting a Belkin mount that allows you to clip your iPhone to the highest of your MacBook. Then, whereas on FaceTime calls out of your laptop computer, you’ll have the ability to use iPhone digital camera capabilities like portrait mode, middle stage and studio mild, a brand new function that brightens your face and darkens the background behind you. You may use your iPhone digital camera on different MacOS apps, like Zoom.

Without even adjusting your cellphone, your digital camera may someway present a desk view (huge angle lenses, maybe?). This could also be helpful for a math instructor, for instance, who needs to put in writing out the steps to resolve an equation with out hooking up a pill. In apply, it in all probability gained’t look as good because it did on the keynote — whose desk is definitely organized?

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Continuity Camera is, as its title suggests, a part of Apple’s continuity instruments. The firm may also introduce a handoff function, which makes it straightforward to leap between gadgets whereas on a FaceTime name. So if you happen to’re FaceTiming in your iPhone, for instance, you possibly can place your cellphone near your MacBook and seamlessly switch the decision to your laptop computer, relatively than hanging up and calling once more.

These options are anticipated to be out there later this yr, together with the Belkin mount. While that is all enjoyable and good, maybe subsequent time Apple can simply put a greater digital camera into the laptop computer itself.