Ondrej Holzman The new iPhone is expected to arrive in September, and the holiday season just starting is ripe for a lot of speculation about the new Apple phones, of which there are likely to be more. The latest reports say that Touch ID could go away in at least one model.
The authors of the latest speculation are none other than analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, drawing mainly on the Asian supply chain, and Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, who came out this week within a few hours with very similar predictions. The most important one is that Apple is said to be preparing a new security element not only for unlocking the phone.
The new iPhone (iPhone 7S, maybe iPhone 8, maybe completely different) has replaced Touch ID as a security feature by offering a camera that can scan your face in 3D, verify that it's really you, and then unlock the device.
Although Touch ID has worked very reliably on iPhones so far and was one of the most reliable solutions on the market, Apple is also expected to come up with a large display covering practically the entire front body in the new iPhone. And that should also take away the button that now houses Touch ID.
Although there is constant talk about whether Apple can get under the display, however, competitor Samsung failed to do so in the spring, and Apple is said to be betting on a completely different technology in the end. The question is whether it will be a necessary sacrifice, or whether facial scanning should ultimately be even safer or more effective.
The new iPhone should also come with a new 3D sensor, thanks to which the sensing technology should be very fast and reliable. Thus, the user would unlock the phone or confirm payments just by approaching the phone, and according to the available information, he would not even have to lean directly over the lens or manipulate the phone in any way, which is key.
The technology Apple is considering is supposed to be very fast. The 3D image and subsequent verification should take place in the order of a few hundred milliseconds, and according to some experts, unlocking via facial scanning could ultimately be even more secure than Touch ID. In addition, this was not always completely ideal in some cases (greasy fingers, gloves, etc.) – Face ID, as we can call the mentioned innovation, would eliminate all these potential problems.
Apple would certainly not be the first with similar security technology. Windows Hello and the latest Galaxy S8 phones can already unlock the device with your face. But Samsung bets only on 2D images, which can be bypassed relatively easily. It is questionable whether Apple's 3D technology would be more resistant to such a breach, but there is definitely a better chance.
However, building a 3D sensor into a phone is not an easy task, which is why the Galaxy S8 only has 2D sensing. For example, Intel's RealSense technology consists of three components: a conventional camera, an infrared camera, and an infrared laser projector. It is expected that Apple would also have to build something similar into the front of the phone. The new iPhone is likely to have some really big changes.
It's all bullshit, I'd say…
Absolutely. Pay by phone approximation? Great…
I don't understand why they don't do it on the back but don't hide it under the apple, it's always there.
Because it's stupid.
Safer? I wouldn't say. Let me give you an example: a child gambler wants to buy some items in the game, but his parents won't let him. Does the child wait until the parents go to bed, sneak up on them and aim at the payer's face?
With 3D touch, the parent's child would have to place their finger on the sensor, which could lead to the parent waking up. Unless he's 16 and as tight as a horse?
The child waits until the parents go to sleep. Then he simply lights up the entire field, orients the camera correctly to the parent's face, does not attack the spy, opens the parent's eyes and voilà, the phone is unlocked. Nobody notices anything.
Ps: no one really cares that the new iPhone has been in production for a long time? So it probably won't really happen anymore.
Nowhere in the article was there a mention of the fact that it is an iris scan!
It does not have to light up at all, as this technology is not dependent on whether it is dark or not. But even if it were as you mention, someone works at night and sleeps during the day, and I even know how to take a nap during the day in this heat for an hour or two. So in such cases there would be no need for light and there are XY other cases. You only need to think a little and come up with at least another 3
This is not an iris scan. That's another security option, the so-called Iris scanner, but it's only rumored that Apple has tested this technology, but it's nowhere near as likely as the 3D facial scan. At most as a supplement.
Don't confuse 3D Touch with Touch ID...
The phone can easily have both of those technologies. 3D Touch and 3D face scan. In some situations one is used, in others the other. Those who want ultra security will set the necessity of verification via both.
But now we are once again speculating on the invention of some even worse speculator than we are. And when Apple releases something, we'll just argue again if it's useful or not…..but at least Apple gives us his perspective on it.
3D touch, not for phone security, but touch ID...
Nj. Typo (in head). Corrected. Thanks! ?