How did Apple decide to identify you?
When you pick up the iPhone, in most cases you put your thumb on the home button, trigger the Touch ID sensor and unlock the smartphone.
It is also used to identify itself in the Apple store, in the banking app, and in authorized Apple payment transactions.
But Apple is a big problem.
As home key is expected to become a virtual on-
In the upcoming iPhone screen button, Apple needs to solve the biometric problem without the traditional Touch ID sensor.
It seems to me that Tim Cook and his team have three notable options to choose from, and none of them are at fault.
The first is to expect to retain the entire Touch ID system for most of 2017, but embed the Touch ID sensor under the touch screen glass.
With the move to the virtual home button, allowing the screen to dominate the front of the device, this will keep the Touch ID sensor in the same physical position as the previous iphone (
Reduce cognitive changes)
While advancing the technology, Apple will move further along the "do not press the button" route.
Apple is not the only manufacturer with insufficient attention.
Glass fingerprint sensor
Samsung has been developing similar solutions for the Galaxy Note 8, although there are current signs that it is not successful, instead it has turned to putting the sensor behind the phablet next to the camera lens.
Reports on the IPhone suggest that Apple has a viable solution, but production is lower than expected.
The second option is probably the most speculative.
IPhone 8 design leaked recently (
Reported on Forbes)
The power button has been recommended to be enlarged.
This is a strange choice.
While using with the new curved glass display and back cover can change style, the larger power button can be equipped with a Touch ID sensor that echoes Sony's Android approach
Xperia mobile phone on this site.
If Apple has a problem with the following
But the glass sensor that needs to keep the Touch ID, and then, that would be an option, since it uses existing technology and combines it with the current Touch ID hook in iOS, therefore, only a small degree of disruption will be provided-and third-
Party application
Over the past few weeks, the third option to replace Touch ID has been discussed in Apple circles.
This will allow Tim Cook and his team to completely abandon the use of Touch ID in the iPhone 8 and rely on cameras and sensors facing the front to identify authorized faces.
Although facial recognition is the most "gee-
The option of Whizz, of course, is also an easier option to use, and it needs to be as accurate and fast as today's Touch ID.
It needs to deal with all kinds of difficult conditions (
Includes different lighting and atmospheric conditions that change the profile and color of the user's face)
And handle it in a way that's easier and faster than Touch ID.
Each face recognition failure makes acceptance more difficult.
I am not in favor of Apple's idea of removing biometrics from the new iPhone, nor is it in favor of a separate physical touch ID sensor appearing in front of the iPhone 8 (
Because this will destroy the effort of the appearance of "almost all screens.
I 'd love to spend my money on apples.
Glass fingerprint reader
On last year's iPhone 7, after the removable home button was replaced by a pressure-sensitive "zone", this is a natural next step, and it fits the user's expectations, something the opposition does not have.
Reports of lower yields are also linked to the delayed launch of the iPhone 8.
Everyone has to wait, not the phone and a lot of people are disappointed that "they didn't get it" and the arrival of the iPhone 8 will be another media event that can change from "zero" to "Old Place ".
For me, Apple is working on a "back-
Use the up recognition system for face recognition.
If the ultimate goal is to reduce the number of sensors and additional peripherals on the smartphone, lose the fingerprint sensor, and not improve the forward sensor that can be used for multiple purposes, this is a better long-term
Apple's long-term bet.
But both solutions face problems that need to be solved in hardware.
This means that it has been decided which hardware to install in the iPhone 8.
Although the problem with accurate identification in software is huge, there is more room for future-oriented sensors.
Apple owns the following patents
The glass fingerprint reader and technology have been proven, but we don't know if this can be used on a large scaleproduction yet.
Before that, we can be relatively sure that the power button is much larger than the previous model.
The bigger one