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Apple’s future iPhones are likely to remain finger-free when it comes to unlocking and ID verification
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(Image credit: Macworld)
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If you prefer to unlock youriPhonewith your finger rather than your face, the iPhone 16 may not be for you: a new report from a well-connected insider says that almost none ofApple’s Touch ID manufacturing equipment exists any more as the iPhone embraces facial recognition across the range. The outlier is the iPhone SE, and some rumours have previously suggested that’ll embrace Face ID in its next generation too.
That doesn’t mean fingerprint recognition in the iPhone is dead forever. But if it returns it won’t be with a big button on a big chin, like in the current iPhone SE: that takes up too much space on any non-folding iPhone.
What’s the future of iPhone fingers?
Apple has been rumoured to be working on below-display fingerprint scanning for some time now, with the latest predictions suggesting it’ll appear in iPhones launching in late 2026 – which would meant the iPhone 18. Similar rumours suggest that under-display Face ID sensors are also likely on a similar timescale, removing the notch and Dynamic Island from the front of the iPhone. However, 2026 is such a long time away that any predictions are best considered wishful thinking rather than hard news; the lack of any such predictions for the much more imminent iPhone 16 indicate that neither form of authentication is coming any time soon.
The news about Touch ID being on its way out does seem credible, however: the same source previously leaked that the iPhone 14 was keeping the A15 Bionic chip and more recently suggested that the iPhone 16 Pro and Plus models' processors will be made using a different process to the ones in the iPhone 15 Pro in order to reduce Apple’s costs.
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