iPhone 8 continues to receive disclosures thanks to the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, today the same operating system of HomePod giving new details about the future smrtphone. More precisely, we start with the fact that the iPhone 8 will not have Touch ID integrated under the screen because there is no clear evidence of this implementation, the Apple company avoiding to offer any suggestion for its existence, which is good.
The iPhone 8 will have a cutout in the screen, as Apple told us already on Friday by including an image with the new design in the HomePod iOS. This cutout of the iPhone 8 will hide a 3D front camera, a laser sensor, an infrared sensor, one for proximity and one for ambient light, and with the help of the former, the FaceID facial recognition system that we were told about yesterday will be offered.
iPhone 8 will have an iOS with a modified status bar, maybe even interactive, because of this cutout from the screen, the information about battery, signal, Wi-Fi, time, Bluetooth will be displayed separately. Apple is forced to display segmented information from the iPhone 8 status bar because of this cutout, the status bar being redesigned by the engineers from Cupertino, so it could come with some interesting surprises.
Some interesting related strings (I'm guessing you've come across these) pic.twitter.com/Go5ZVFlzea
— Jeff Grossman (@Jeffrey903) August 1
iPhone 8 – Touch ID, cutout and changes from iOS 11
iPhone 8 will also have a function called Tap-to-Wake, which I have seen on Android terminals for several years, it being also offered in some Lumia smartphones. This will allow you to activate the iPhone 8 screen, when it is locked, by a simple press or double press on it, without using any button, especially since the Home button will be completely removed starting with this model.
iPhone 8 will have a virtual Home button, now called by Apple right Home Indicator, this being positioned again at the bottom of the screen. The good part is that although the iPhone 8 will have a special area on the screen dedicated to the buttons for controlling certain applications, it will be hidden in some of them, so it will not be visible all the time, as suggested.
iPhone 8 has a good part of the secrets revealed by the Apple company, but this is very good, because we find out ahead of time which rumors are false and which are true. Thanks to HomePod, iPhone 8 is no longer a mystery to us and we know a lot of the changes prepared by Apple, but by the time of the presentation in August we will certainly find out a good part of the other surprises prepared for us by the Americans.
The virtual home button seems to just be called the 'home indicator' — looks like the OS has no qualms about hiding it in certain contexts
- Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) August 1
