Long silent on Twitter, Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s star movement analyst, has been distilling information on the microblogging platform since his first message in early March.
In his last tweet, Ming-Chi Kuo returns to one of his past predictions, which concerned the introduction of a fingerprint reader under the screen of certain iPhones at the earliest in 2023.
He specifies that according to his latest information from the production lines, this technology should not make its appearance in the iPhone for at least two years. Indeed, the iPhones that will be released in 2023 and 2024 should not adopt a Touch ID sensor under the screen, according to him and his sources.
The analyst adds that Face ID with a mask on an iPhone is already a very good biometric solution.
I previously predicted iPhones would support under-display fingerprint sensing/Touch ID in 2023 at the earliest. But the latest survey indicates new iPhones in 2023 & 2024 may not adopt under-display Touch ID. Face ID with a mask on iPhone is already a great biometrics solution.
— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) March 30, 2022
According to Bloomberg and the wall street journal, Apple would have tested iPhone 13 models equipped with a fingerprint sensor under the screen, before preferring to keep Face ID. The possible postponement of this technology is indeed not very problematic, if we consider that the pandemic will come to an end (fingers crossed), or that Face ID with a mask makes it possible to secure your smartphone without having to enter your password all the time.
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Currently, in Apple’s catalog, the iPhone SE 2022 is the only one to use Touch ID. If Apple has to change its design in order to enlarge the front surface covered by the screen in a next generation, which could be released within two years, it only has Face ID left, or the offset of the Touch ID sensor. in the On/Off button, like on the latest generation iPad mini and iPad Air.