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Opinion: Apple might introduce facial-recognition in future iPhones but fingerprints will remain

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<p>It seems pretty clear by this stage that Apple is working on a near-bezel-free design for the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-8/" target="_blank">iPhone 8[/url]. Not only have we heard consistent reports supporting this idea – and Jony Ive’s ambitions of a ‘single slab of glass’ design – but it’s also a pretty obvious next step in the evolution of smartphones.</p>
<p>Apple has been headed in this direction since day one. One of the major points of differentiation of the very first iPhone over existing smartphones of the time was that it dispensed with a physical keyboard in order to maximize the screen space. In the latest iPhones, Apple has ditched a mechanical Home button in favor of a touch-sensitive one, and it holds patents for multiple approaches to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/18/home-button-in-iphone-display-screen/" target="_blank">embedding[/url] a fingerprint <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/04/touch-id-in-display-iphone-8/" target="_blank">reader[/url] into a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/14/apple-patents-yet-another-method-of-embedding-fingerprint-reader-into-iphone-display/" target="_blank">screen[/url].</p>
<p>But the latest <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/15/iphone-8-function-area/" target="_blank">KGI report[/url] echoes an <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/21/kgi-apple-iphone-face-recognition-biometrics/" target="_blank">earlier one[/url] in suggesting that Apple may be planning to drop Touch ID and switch instead to ‘new biometric technologies’ …</p>
<p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/17/opinion-iphone-8-iris-recognition-face-recognition-fingerprint/#more-468364" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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