Suppliers of iPhone displays are reportedly hoping to persuade Apple to adopt micro lens array technology for the [iPhone 16](https://appleinsider.com/inside/iphone-16 "iPhone 16"), but while it has key benefits, there are significant downsides.

Apple is very familiar with micro lens array (MLA) technology, having included it in an iPhone patent as long ago [as 2013](https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/26/apple-patents-lytro-like-refocusable-camera-for-iphone), and as recently [as 2020](https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/02/apple-is-still-working-on-under-display-optical-touch-id-reader). But it hasn't used MLA for the main iPhone display and now _The Elec_ [says that](https://www.thelec.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=22829) screen manufacturers have proposed that Apple should do exactly that for the 2024 iPhone 16.  
 