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Apple's iPhone 17 will forever change how we take selfies - including on Android phones

Look for other phone makers to take inspiration from the iPhone 17 and change their front-facing cameras in 2026.

The interface for the front-facing camera on the iPhone 17 models now lets you switch between vertical and horizontal (right arrow) and set the Center Stage to use AI automatically zoom or swap between vertical and horizontal to get everyone in your group selfie shot (left arrow). Apple went from lagging other flagship smartphones - which have been using 24MP selfie cameras since as early as 2018 -- to leapfrogging all of them in one generation of phones. Jason Hiner/ZDNETI've been testing the new selfie cameras on the various models of the iPhone 17 lineup for the past several weeks and I'm happy to report that it works as well as advertised and the front sensor is now worthy of taking high-quality photos and not just quick images to post on social media.

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