Apple continues to file patents to offer a better version of Touch ID!
Touch ID is one of the iPhone components that users want to recover. And Apple knows it, but wants to get it right. Even since 2013, the company has been working on various patents to locate Touch ID under iPhone screen. And it’s getting closer.
The most recent rumors, shared from the news account “yeux1122” on the Korean blog Naver, bet on the return of Touch ID in a limited way to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max models. These will be located at the front of the screen, it will only have a small hole for the FaceTime camera. Face ID sensors will be hidden under the screen.
The most anticipated return will have to wait
As for one of the most anticipated returns, Consultant Ross Young is less optimistic, saying Touch ID could arrive with the 2026 iPhone model at the earliest.possibly the same year that Apple introduces Face ID as an under-display front-facing camera, which most reports say Apple could roll out in 2024 or 2025 at the latest.
This very week, Apple files a patent related to Touch ID under the screen which combines short wave infrared technology with an optical imaging system that could have several functions. With this, in addition to reading the fingerprint of the user when he touches the screen, it will also be possible to determine the pattern of the veins, the oxygenation of the blood, the pulse and the presence of gloves and humidity.
Currently, Touch ID still has a place in the Apple ecosystembut only on low-end devices like the iPhone SE 3 and iPad mini 6 and MacBook line.
Despite the advances shown by Apple in each of its patents to place the Touch ID under the screen, there are those who bet on integrating it into the side power button. And with that, having two types of biometric authentication technology to protect our information, without one depending on the overhaul of the other.
