Most iPhones have a built-in optical illusion — can you spot it?

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Most iPhones have a built-in optical illusion — can you spot it?
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Designers have fooled customers with a surprising fake-out on the outside of their devices.

Billions of Apple-made smartphones have a built-in optical illusion – but can you spot what it is?

At the bottom of most iPhones – at least since the iPhone 7 – there are speaker grilles on either side of the charging port. But the designers have fooled customers, as there’s really only one speaker on the right side. To test it, covering the speaker on the right side while playing music will muffle the sound, but blocking the left won’t make a difference.

While the design varies between Apple devices, most iPhones have this tricky feature, which is seemingly meant to create aesthetically pleasing symmetry.Future Publishing via Getty ImagesIn some cases, the extra grille actually acts as a microphone, and prior to the iPhone 7, the phones had a designated hole for a microphone; however, it wasn’t crisply symmetrical like many Apple devices.

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