For years, the Apple iPhone line (except iPhone SE 2020) has gone without fingerprint readers, relying on Face ID, but it looks like Apple could bring the fingerprint reader back to iPhone 13.
This is something we’ve heard before, and now more recently The Wall Street Journal said that two former Apple employees said the company “has been working on screen fingerprint technology and has considered including Touch ID and Face ID on the same device. . “
So this would not be a return to Touch ID fingerprint readers based on the home button, it would be a modern on-screen display like many Android phones now have. This we have also heard before and, according to this latest report, it would be beyond face ID.
The best of both worlds
Having both makes some sense. Face ID is one of the best facial recognition options you’ll find on a phone, and it’s a feature that many people are likely to want to keep using. But it is also imperfect. The dependency on seeing your face means that it doesn’t work as well in the dark, or if you are wearing a mask or sunglasses. At such times, a fingerprint scanner would be much more convenient.
So, does the iPhone 13 line really have these two biometric security features? Perhaps. Bloomberg also said in January that the feature was under test, so there is no shortage of evidence for that. But so far most of the evidence simply points to Apple’s test or to consider the idea, instead of committing to it.
Smartphone companies often develop several prototypes of different devices and test all kinds of technologies, not all of them launched, as demonstrated by the masses of promising patents that are not yet products.
Therefore, Apple may decide against a fingerprint reader on the screen or postpone it for a future year, especially since it is also rumored that this year’s iPhone may be called the iPhone 12S – so called in part because it is said to be a little update, and it doesn’t seem like a small change to us.
We are still a long way from the likely launch of the iPhone 13 in September, so there is plenty of time for more rumors to roll pointing this way or that. We hope to have a clearer idea of what Apple is planning in the coming weeks and months.
Via 9to5Mac