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iPhone 8 Concepts Explore How Apple Could Hide or 'Embrace' the Display's Sensor Notch

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We're a little over one month out from the expected September unveiling of the ten year anniversary iPhone, which has come to be known as the "iPhone 8" ahead of release. While recent HomePod firmware discoveries have essentially confirmed the iPhone 8's edge-to-edge design and front-facing sensor bar notch, it's still unclear how iOS 11 will be incorporated into all of these drastically redesigned hardware upgrades.

New mockups shared by Allen Pike and Max Rudberg this week have taken a look at how these changes might be realized in an iPhone 8 running iOS 11. Particularly, the mockups address one of the more curious additions in the iOS 11 beta: large, banner pieces of text that sit atop apps like Messages, Mail, and the App Store. Pike pointed out that these "Large Title" banners sit below navigation buttons in many of the apps, with plenty of "weirdly empty" white space on current model iPhones.

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Pike's theory, further polished in enhanced mockups by Rudberg, is that iOS 11 will shift the topmost navigation buttons within these apps to a bottom bar -- perhaps a "function area" -- where users will easily be able to tap UI inputs to jump around within the apps.

In total, Rudberg realized three possible outcomes that Apple could create with regards to the sensor bar notch and bottom navigation inputs. In the first mockup, the entirety of the iPhone 8's 5.8-inch display is used by the status bar and navigation buttons at the bottom near the virtual home button.

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The next two designs include a variety of combinations: the sensor bar using an all-black UI to hide the hardware notch, and the same effect "blending" the bottom navigation bar. As for Rudberg himself, at first he was more favorable of the UI blending the notch into the software of the iPhone, but due to what would result in a visually smaller display, he's now hoping that Apple will "embrace the notch."
Beforehand I was fond of the idea of blending the statusbar with the hardware, but seeing the mockups like this, I'm not so sure. Blending the statusbar with the hardware makes the screen seem smaller than it is and the result is less striking. I'm now leaning towards that Apple will embrace the notch.
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This week, HomePod firmware data also revealed that the notch will sit between a "split" status bar, where iOS 11 will showcase data like connection, battery, Bluetooth, and more on each side of the notch. One question mark that remains in Rudberg's mockups is where the time will be located in iOS 11 on an iPhone 8, although there appears to be some room on the left or right side of the front-facing hardware for it to be located.

The front-facing sensor bar on the iPhone 8 has been a point of contention for device concept and mockups over the past few months. It's expected that this bar will hold the earpiece, front-facing camera, and new 3D sensors for advanced facial recognition. Recent rumors have suggested that the iPhone 8 will do away with Touch ID completely, and rely on facial recognition abilities to authenticate purchases and other iOS elements that the fingerprint sensor previously guarded.

To see all of the iPhone 8 mockups shared this week, check out Pike's blog post here and Rudberg's here.

Article Link: iPhone 8 Concepts Explore How Apple Could Hide or 'Embrace' the Display's Sensor Notch
 
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canadianreader said:
Because of the lack of Touch ID most likely I’ll upgrade to the iPhone 7s
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Lack of Touch ID would require Apple to rewrite their Apple Pay agreement, which means that every retailer and every bank would have to agree to the new one. Remember how long it took for some to get on Apple Pay in the first place? It'd be a huge problem for millions of users while we waited for all of them to accept such a change.

I just don't see them completely leaving Touch ID, especially considering they just added it to the MBP. If they were transitioning away from it to a camera-based system, why put in the work to add it to the MBP, only to remove it and have to integrate the new system a year later?
 
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If there is the cutout then its a no go for me. Its either going to be visually balanced or I won't like it. Having thicker bar on the top and lower on the bottom = ugly
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
Lack of Touch ID would require Apple to rewrite their Apple Pay agreement, which means that every retailer and every bank would have to agree to the new one. Remember how long it took for some to get on Apple Pay in the first place? It'd be a huge problem for millions of users while we waited for all of them to accept such a change.

I just don't see them completely leaving Touch ID, especially considering they just added it to the MBP. If they were transitioning away from it to a camera-based system, why put in the work to add it to the MBP, only to remove it and have to integrate the new system a year later?
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Maybe the agreement is already rewritten....
 
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have the curvature top corners (of the display area) is different than the bottom two corners making it asymmetric and doesn't look good to me.
 
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I wonder if they will put the clock to one side and it swaps between the battery/status icons and the time. I wouldn't mind that as long as it fades from one to the other, not blinks. I've grown to hate things that blink because of annoying adverts (either through design or incompetence) (I have no problem with ads, they allow many games, and sites such as Mac Rumors to be available for free, but annoying ads are a different matter).
 
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That third image is the best way forward. A phone no longer needs to display the time as the Apple Watch now has that responsibility.
 
CerebralX said:
I think they should remove the carrier name from the top left hand side. I've never understood why the carrier needed to always be displayed in the status bar. Put the clock in its place, happy days.
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Some plans don't let you cross over to other carriers for free.
 
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