Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a 'Couple of Years'

[MacRumors]

Apple plans to bring Face ID to the Mac within the next "couple of years," respected Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman said today in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter.

In the newsletter, Gurman says that he believes Apple's ultimate goal is to shift all of its products to Face ID, including the lower-end iPhones such as the iPhone SE and the iPad Air, which feature Touch ID. Gurman says Touch ID remains an important part of Apple's product lineup, especially for lower-end models, thanks to it being a "cheaper alternative" to Face ID while continuing to provide security to users.

But I expect that to eventually change. It won’t happen this year, but I’d bet Face ID on the Mac is coming within a couple of years. I expect all iPhones and iPads to transition to Face ID within that timeframe, too. Eventually, a camera embedded in the screen would help differentiate Apple’s pricier devices by eliminating the notch at the top. The facial recognition sensor gives Apple two central features: security and augmented reality. Touch ID, more convenient or not, only provides the former.

Gurman had previously reported that as Apple was planning its recently launched redesigned 24-inch iMac, it had initially planned to include Face ID, but that Face ID implementation has been delayed to an upcoming iMac redesign instead. Unlike iPhones and iPads, Mac laptop screens are significantly thinner, making it harder to fit the necessary depth sensors for Face ID, Gurman notes.

Further down the line, Gurman says Apple will eventually embed Face ID into the screens themselves, abandoning the need for a notch on the iPhone. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes such an iPhone may debut as early as 2023. As for the Mac desktop, Apple is continuing to develop a replacement for the 27-inch iMac which may feature a larger screen and a more powerful "M2X" chip. Apple earlier this year paused work on the larger iMac to focus on the 24-inch iMac, which was released this past April.

Article Link: Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a 'Couple of Years'

 

[4743913]

I predict this will go hand in hand with the "iOS Style" lockdown of macOS which apple has been building toward.

Hazel, Little Snitch, Rogue Amoeba will all be in jeopardy but the ovis aries will be happy. 😀

 

[HeavenDynamic]

I'm feel like Gurman is more predicting than actually giving new information in these newsletters.

 

[Serban55]

Beautiful times ahead...next year is the arm mac pro year

 

[Puonti]

A USB-C / Thunderbolt display with a built-in A-series SOC sure would make it easy to bring FaceID to Apple Silicon Mac minis and Mac Pros...

 

[UMHurricanes34]

Don’t understand why this is taking Apple so long. The Mac is arguably the strongest use case for FaceID.

 

[Khedron]

Complete nonsense.

Honest headline: “Gurman upset with predictions being instantly proven wrong so extends predictions to years rather than months”

 

[dantracht]

We already know this, Captain Obvious.

 

[Kulfon]

Folks, you heard it from me first:
- new Mac will keep coming in the next couple of years
- they will have thinner bazels and newer screen tech
- As they will be launched, they will be the best Mac to date

 

[OliOliOliOli]

Don’t understand why this is taking Apple so long. The Mac is arguably the strongest use case for FaceID.

need 1080p camera 🤣

 

[OliOliOliOli]

Gurman is our Nostradamus!​

 

[Edsel]

Interesting to see how Apple is desperately playing catch-up to Microsoft who has had Face ID for 2+ years.

 

[knappeduivel]

I predict this will go hand in hand with the "iOS Style" lockdown of macOS which apple has been building toward.

Hazel, Little Snitch, Rogue Ameoba will all be in jeopardy but the walled garden sheep will be happy.

Calling people with a different opinion sheep is bad argumentation and downright rude

 

[Apple_Robert]

One doesn't have to be Gurman to have come up with that prognostication. I look forward to having Face ID on the Mac. I hope Touch ID will also remain as a backup.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

What about Touch ID?

They just need to revamped Touch ID. It should be enough for the Mac.

 

[bluespark]

I'm amazed the Mac doesn't have it already. A person using their computer is always looking at it and rarely masked, so it seems like FaceID would work well and would make the entire experience more pleasant.

 

[TurboJobo]

Why? touch ID works good enough on my laptop
I find that touch ID is just faster than Face ID
Miss my iphone 8 lighting quick to unlock
on my iphone 12 I have face ID disable and just use my code every 5 min or so

 

[alexandr]

Folks, you heard it from me first:
- new Mac will keep coming in the next couple of years
- they will have thinner bazels and newer screen tech
- As they will be launched, they will be the best Mac to date

let's not be forgetting the newest processor!

 

[alexandr]

Why? touch ID works good enough on my laptop
I find that touch ID is just faster than Face ID
Miss my iphone 8 lighting quick to unlock
on my iphone 12 I have face ID disable and just use my code every 5 min or so

yea, but if your hands are a bit wet forget about it. also in some parts of the planet gloves are a thing.

 

[dwaltwhit]

macs will continue to have keyboards

 

[jgbr]

I do love these predictions by commentators and Youtubers recently: “by the end of the year”…. “In the next few years” and “there will be a new iPhone sometime this year”…

 

[Windoes]

Bring it on! This has been a long wait already

 

[anthogag]

Face ID for Mac would be excellent.

Face ID on my iPhone is good. It needs Touch ID when the phone is on the table beside me; I can just touch the screen to review a notification

 

[alpi123]

Lately, Gurman has started to sound like: "New iPhones coming within a couple of years"

 

[4743913]

Calling people with a different opinion sheep is bad argumentation

sorry I hurt your feelings but it is accurate when it concerns locking down a computer like a phone. we already have a "computer" with diapers, its called an iPad.