iOS 12 software reveals iPads are getting facial recognition

A savvy developer spotted that Apple's framework for Animoji and Memoji has been altered in an iOS 12 beta to support an iPad-size screen. Rumors of facial recognition in the iPad have been circulating for months, most recently after iOS developer Guilherme Rambo found code last month in the iOS 12 beta that suggests Face ID is coming to the iPad. Now, Steve Troughton-Smith shared a screenshot appearing to show Animoji on the larger iPad screen. The new iOS 12 beta has Apple's AvatarKit framework for Animoji and Memoji developed for iPad. No current iPad models feature facial recognition technology, so it seems likely that Apple has one in the product pipeline that's planned for release at some point'New in iOS 12: AvatarKit comes to iPad.