Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is preparing the glorious return of Touch ID in iPhones, but not in any button, as the fingerprint reading solution has been offered until now, but under the screens of its future models. Meanwhile, those from Apple have already implemented an optical fingerprint reader in the MacBook Pro 16 inches, the Americans testing the implementation in the laptop before implementing a similar fingerprint reader under the iPhone screens, only that it will be ultrasonic.
Apple recently managed to register a patent that describes a method by which Touch ID can be reintegrated into the iPhone, but under the umbrella of Apple phones, as it happens in other Android phones. This patent describes a technique that Apple already uses to provide Touch ID in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, and of course from here to future iPhone models it's just a simple step for Americans.
Touch ID will return UNDER the iPhone screen, it has already arrived in the MacBook Pro
In the patent registered by Apple, there is talk about an optical fingerprint reader, but everyone knows that they are inferior to ultrasonic ones, so it is quite clear that Apple will not use this technology. Instead, those from Apple will implement an ultrasonic fingerprint reader, much more efficient, with a wider finger scanning area, but unfortunately the change will not come in 2020, but maybe only in 2021, unfortunately.
“An optical image sensor is carried by the housing below the display. The optical image sensor detects biometric data associated with a user, such as, for example, data representative of a biometric image of the user's fingerprint patterns. The controller may perform an authentication function by matching the acquired biometric data with the biometric template data stored in memory, for example. The controller may perform and/or restrict the functionality of the electronic device based on authentication, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. In some embodiments, there may be more than one optical image sensor."
The first implementation of Touch ID in the screen of iPhone phones will not lead to the elimination of Face ID, as the Americans want to offer both biometric security solutions in tandem for customers all over the world. Of course, this brings even more problems for the implementation of the technology, but it has to start somewhere to offer this radical change for customers all over the world, and everything is based on the evolution of phones.
Although for now it is not very clear when the first iPhone with Touch ID integrated into the screen will be released, many people are eagerly awaiting its appearance.
