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Latest Apple patent appears to show fingerprint recognition almost anywhere on the screen

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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span class="s2">Long-standing rumors (https://9to5mac.com/2015/06/22/iphone-virtual-home-button/)</span> that Apple plans to embed the Home button into the display of future iPhones became more concrete when </span><span class="s1"><span class="s2">Bloomberg (https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/25/apple-again-said-to-remove-home-button-with-iphone-coming-in-2017/),</span> the <span class="s2">WSJ</span> (https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/21/wsj-iphone-7-report/) and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/14/2017-iphone-home-button-in-screen/" target="_blank">NYT[/url] all reported that Apple plans make this move in 2017.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We’ve seen a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/18/home-button-in-iphone-display-screen/" target="_blank">succession[/url] of Apple patents for this technology, and another one published today appears to describe a technology that would allow a fingerprint to be recognised almost anywhere on the screen, not just in a fixed location … </span></p>
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