Upcoming iPhones may come with under-screen fingerprint sensors as well as FaceID.
Noted industry analyst, and somewhat of a tech clairvoyant, Ming-Chi Kuo believes the feature could be introduced by 2021.
It is thought the feature will work alongside current privacy and security features to offer additional safety and security to users.
It seems the move may have been temporary and rumour suggest Apple could have been working on the in-screen tech since 2017, when it filed a patent on the tech.
While FaceID has become an Apple mainstay, not featuring on iPads as well as mobile phones, the rest of the industry and jumped ahead of the California-based tech giant when it comes to the fingerprint detecting hardware.
Chinese firm Oppo has released its Reno handset with an in-screen detector which is now available.
This now joins Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Nokia and OnePlus as manufacturers with the capability.
Rumours are abound of other tech firms developing similar capabilities, with Apple seemingly among them.
The tech is still developing and currently requires a thick module, lots of energy and only works on a specific portion of the screen.
By 2021, many of these issues may have been solved, Kuo claims.
TouchID was removed from all iPhone handsets after the 8 Plus, leaving FaceID as the lone form of authentication.
In October 2017, Apple’s vice president of public policy for the Americas, Cyntheia Hogan explained how they make the product accessible to people of different ethnicities.
HOW DOES TOUCH ID WORK?
Touch ID uses a small touch sensor encased around the home button that scans the layers of skin on a finger.
Users can ‘train’ their iPhone to read and learn their unique fingerprint and when they touch the home button, the phone is unlocked.
Touch ID can also be replace an App Store password when buying music, apps or books.
It uses a ‘laser cut sapphire crystal’ to take a high-resolution image scan before the Touch ID software in iOS 7 detemines whether the print belongs to the owner or not.
All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely inside the device’s chip.
The prints are not stored on an Apple server, or backed up to iCloud.
Upcoming iPhones may come with under-screen fingerprint sensors as well as FaceID. It is thought the feature will work alongside current privacy and security features to offer additional safety and security to users
We worked with participants from around the world to include a representative group of people accounting for gender, age, ethnicity, and other factors’, she said.
‘We augmented the studies as needed to provide a high degree of accuracy for a diverse range of users’, she said.
Developers also trained the neural network to spot and resist people trying to unlock the phone with photos or masks.
Source: Dailymail
