iPhone With Under-Screen Face ID: What the Latest Rumors Say

[zarmanto]

That makes sense and would be decent transition. They way I currently see it is that they could have done the same thing currently done with the island, but with the notch. The pill pushed the black area of the screen further down and left a tiny strip of useless pixels above it.

Agreed -- and I'm pretty sure that there are technical reasons for why they chose the pill in particular. I suspect they needed to move the camera system away from the edge for some reason, perhaps related to the antenna array, or perhaps related to migrating to a bigger camera system.

However, they absolutely could have implemented the "Dynamic Island" software widgets and features around the notch as well as the pill; the decision to restrict those features to the pill was entirely a marketing tool, likely to promote broader acceptance of the pill as the direction going forward. For example...

I actually like the Island though. It could of course be done completely with software.

But just sayin: it is done entirely in software.

 

[Sippincider]

Apple really drip drips out features

And as long as each drip sells phones, they’ll keep doing it.🚰🚰🚰

Myself, the drips are non-events, and hardware failures/needs (not wants) are what decide the purchases.

 

[neuropsychguy]

"It is unclear if the devices would have a Dynamic Island, a feature that helps to hide the Face ID sensors on current iPhones."

I hope it's around in some form. I really like the Dynamic Island.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Both the notch and the dynamic island are just ugly ways Apple are trying to solve the problem. Others have doen it nice IMHO.
Because you want an iPhone and are into Apple's Ecosystem you will live it and the Apps and iPhone wallpaper are dark at the top, to hide it, and you get used to it after I dunno how many years.

 

[9081094]

Apple just keeps on innovating ... with 6 year old technology no less.

Exactly, they take the time in perfecting the existing technology and ones they come out they leapfrog the competition. Good examples are the 60 hz screen refresh rates, 8 GB ram and Siri 😝

 

[Madhatter32]

Exactly, they take the time in perfecting the existing technology and ones they come out they leapfrog the competition. Good examples are the 60 hz screen refresh rates, 8 GB ram and Siri 😝

LOL -- "leapfrog." You can keep telling that to yourself if it helps.

 

[9081094]

I look at those android phones with just the pinhole and they tempt me to jump ship. Apple really drip drips out features

What are you talking about? The AirPod max came with a usb c port, the ipadmini with a processor swap in not more than 3 years, the brand new iMac is available in new colors and got a processor swap. Timmy is firing on all cilinders. 😜

 

[9081094]

LOL -- "leapfrog." You can keep telling that to yourself if it helps.

I was just kidding. It’s unbelievable how little that comes out of a multibillion dollar company. Innovation my ass.

 

[NT1440]

Both the notch and the dynamic island are just ugly ways Apple are trying to solve the problem. Others have doen it nice IMHO.
Because you want an iPhone and are into Apple's Ecosystem you will live it and the Apps and iPhone wallpaper are dark at the top, to hide it, and you get used to it after I dunno how many years.

Who has embedded a VSCEL laser projector under the screen?

Or is “camera” all you think FaceID is?

 

[timborama]

Still hoping for under-screen Touch ID

Agreed, maybe Apple will figure that out in another 5 years.

 

[icanhazapple]

Still hoping for under-screen Touch ID

This is what people want.

 

[AlexESP]

I look at those android phones with just the pinhole and they tempt me to jump ship. Apple really drip drips out features

What are they dripping? What Android phone has under-screen ToF? The question is still hard to answer if you remove “under-screen”.

 

[the-bigwig]

Still hoping for under-screen Touch ID

I feel the opposite, I like face id much more and I hope they will never do it.

 

[bLackjackj]

Macrumors, we have already seen the roadmap & it clearly shows that the NOTCH is on its way out. Reducing in size and then gone,..thankfully. I hate the NOTCH. Apple internally even still calls it a NOTCH.

FYI, "Dynamic Island" was just a marketing term Apple used to rose colour the ugly box.

 

[Eso]

I look at those android phones with just the pinhole and they tempt me to jump ship. Apple really drip drips out features

I recently got a pixel 9 series phone with the pinhole camera. It has face unlock, but it suffers noticeably from not having the complete face ID system. It has poor success rates in mid-low light and off-angles.

 

[mrr]

I just want to see the iPhone support the Apple Pencil.

 

[iFunk]

Touch ID would be amazing on the side button. Why did Apple never roll it out on the newer iPhones? I believe my wife's newer iPad has it!?!?

 

[phuklok1]

I'm with the bring back touch-ID crowd. i never had touch-ID fail on me other than the rare times of having gloves on when skiing.

Face-ID fails constantly during normal daily use - while biking, half the time while driving, hates sun behind you, may or may not like your sunglasses, is annoying when the phone is on the table or at a wierd angle, when sleepy and squinting (LOL), etc.

I would have them both, totally worth the 3 dollars it would cost them to add it to the power button since it has already been designed, engineered and in mass production on ipads.

 

[julesme]

“…Dynamic Island, a feature that helps to hide the Face ID sensors on current iPhones.”

I would debate that Dynamic Island “hides” the sensors…when it’s visible 100% of the time.

 

[zarmanto]

Touch ID would be amazing on the side button. Why did Apple never roll it out on the newer iPhones? I believe my wife's newer iPad has it!?!?

Personal opinion: Because in a fit of competitive speculative bidding, they managed to somehow (accidentally?) buy an Israeli startup called PrimeSense in 2013. In addition to (presumably) PrimeSense's talented employees, that purchase provided Apple with patents for some pretty innovative 3D depth sensors -- and oh-by-the-way deprived their competitors' access to those same patents, causing the discontinuation of at least one popular product... and so, Apple needed to justify that purchase somehow. Thus, FaceID was born.

And now you know... the REST of the story.

 

[easy4lif]

Ahh yes, time for the annual underscreen touch ID/faceID rumor to come out.

And next year too 😜

 

[now i see it]

They’ll wait until iPhone XX (20).

 

[techfreak23]

The new Camera Button on the iPhone 16 can be used as Touch ID as it's touch sensitive, I hope they bring that back now.

They already did that with one of the iPads on the power button in recent years, but it didn’t also have Face ID. While it would be nice, I don’t see them having both on a device anytime soon, except maybe for MacBooks.

 

[michaelnevernot]

Still hoping for under-screen Touch ID

Amen, FaceID + TouchID is sorely needed. FaceID fails for me daily in so many scenarios where TouchID would work brilliantly, and vice versa. They complement each other perfectly.

 

[yukari]

Ugh. Get rid of the camera bump first.