Apple iPhone 11 is triggering people's 'trypophobia' - here's what it is

Apple’s newly launched iPhone 11 lineup is creating a lot of buzz for its specifications and features. The highlight of this year’s iPhone is its triple-camera module. But apart from the features and its camera's image quality among other things, the chatter on Twitter is on iPhone's camera module and the phenomenon of Trypophobia.

Users are complaining about the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max’s oddly-placed triple-cameras on Twitter. The micro-blogging site is flooded with several posts, where people with ‘Trypophobia’ are blaming the Apple iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max’s camera module design.

Trypophobia involves an intense and disproportionate fear towards holes, repetitive patterns, protrusions, etc., and, in general, images that present high-contrast energy at low and midrange spatial frequencies, according to a study. These clustered holes can be referred to the honeycombs, bubble baths, or seed pods. 

When triggered with trypophobia, people may suffer from nausea, shortness of breath, fast heartbeats, itching, excessive sweating, and even anxiety attacks. According to research, nearly 16 percent of people have trypophobia.

People took to Twitter to express how uncomfortable and ‘triggered’ they feel after seeing the iPhone 11 Pro’s triple camera design.

Those new camera’s trigger my trypophobia and it’s no joke #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/qaaGfHR03j

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— C (@HappyBday_RM) September 10, 2019

keep your nasty iphone cameras away from me @Apple #trypophobia pic.twitter.com/XFZmu2sv3p

— jennyduloc (@jennyduloc) September 10, 2019

iPhone 11 Pro triggers my trypophobia. Don't you just love the sight of this. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/eQO4oCFa63

— Raúl Kripalani (@raulvk) September 10, 2019

iPhone 11? What a funny way to spell Trypophobia#AppleEvent

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— yikes (@walmayer) September 10, 2019

Broke me: I'm not going to buy the IPhone 11 because it triggers my Trypophobia.

— ..little finger (@petercool_) September 11, 2019

The #iphone11 needs a trypophobia trigger warning pic.twitter.com/3Q80yfpd5Q

— Steven Greenstreet (@MiddleOfMayhem) September 10, 2019

I've had really bad trypophobia for years now and seeing pics of the new iPhone 11 all over my timeline makes me want to set everything on fire..stop pic.twitter.com/E1ucM9eeQy

— Em Harriss (@EmHarriss) September 10, 2019

LL pic.twitter.com/BWgoCpFxMd

— π (@JVC341) September 11, 2019

I’m sorry to have to do this to my fellow Trypophobia ppl, but since I seen it we all must suffer pic.twitter.com/yHrsarc60f

— Bearded Investor (@moneymadu) August 19, 2019