iPhone owners are just realizing what the mysterious black circle on the back beside the camera does

Users of the latest iPhone Pro models are just getting to grips with the functions of a mysterious black circle next to the cameras on the back of the latest iPhone models. A recent Reddit post with 1,400 upvotes saw a user circling the mysterious circle and asking simply, 'What's it for?' The circle is only found in the latest iPhone Pro models and certain iPad Pro models - and it's actually very useful, enabling some of the device's coolest apps and features. The dot, which is built into the camera array, is actually a LiDAR scanner (it stands for Light Detection and Ranging). The black'dot' can be seen here on an iPhone 14 Pro (Apple) The sensor enables the Measure app to work out people's height (Apple) Put simply, it's a depth sensor which uses lasers to work out how far away things are.