TouchID Gone for Good

[Cashmonee]

Perhaps this is obvious, and maybe someone else caught this and posted it and i have missed it, but for anyone holding out hope of a TouchID comeback, this from Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering, Dan Riccio in TechCrunch's review seems to indicate Apple has moved on, and that all the rumors of Apple trying to keep TouchID were false.

“I heard some rumor [that] we couldn’t get Touch ID to work through the glass so we had to remove that,” Riccio says, answering a question about whether there were late design changes. “When we hit early line of sight on getting Face ID to be [as] good as it was, we knew that if we could be successful we could enable the product that we wanted to go off and do and if that’s true it could be something that we could burn the bridges and be all in with. This is assuming it was a better solution. And that’s what we did. So we spent no time looking at fingerprints on the back or through the glass or on the side because if we did those things, which would be a last-minute change, they would be a distraction relative to enabling the more important thing that we were trying to achieve, which was Face ID done in a high-quality way.”

I know we all love rumors, after all look at the name of the site, but I think this time analysts and their sources clearly were way off on several points.

Link to the review: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/31/review-the-iphone-x-goes-to-disneyland/

 

[Jimbo47]

But they patented Touch ID behind the touch screen, so they at least considered the idea.

 

[bambooshots]

Tl;dr if you like fingerprint based unlocking better stock up on 8/8 Plus phones or other Android phones before they jump on facial recognition hype train.
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But they patented Touch ID behind the touch screen, so they at least considered the idea.

Companies can patent ideas for a wide range of reasons; they don't have to patent it because they seriously considered going that route.

 

[JPack]

It was obvious on day one, during the keynote presentation in September.

Apple spent several minutes describing how Face ID was superior. They were descriptive and provided stats. You don't do that and then bring back Touch ID.