It’s now been around three days since an iPhone Duo owner complained on the MacRumors forums that something was “a little off” during their FaceTime calls. The note prompted a bit of an investigation, and MacRumors itself confirmed on Monday what that user had feared : Apple’s first foldable does not support FaceTime’s Eye Contact feature.

Eye Contact, for those unfamiliar, is essentially the FaceTime version of that creepy Nvidia feature of the same name that, for about five minutes in 2023, made me feel like I was talking to an AI interviewer every time I video-called someone who owned a gaming PC. It uses on-device AI to make it appear as though you’re looking directly into the camera while FaceTiming someone, even when you’re almost certainly looking elsewhere on the screen.

This feature has been widely available across the iPhone line since the launch of iOS 14. That means the normie iPhone 14 has it. The iPhone 13 mini has it.…