When everyone talks about the end of Apple, the failure of the company and its iPhone, and bullshit like that, there are those who dare to predict some changes for the iPhone 2019, the one that we will see at the end of this year, after the summer, and he also does it with some very risky statements that in the opinion of this writer have little chance of coming true.
Modifications in the notch, that eyebrow that Apple placed at the top of the screen, that everyone criticized and that everyone has imitated in a blushing way, as well as the return of Touch ID and the eternal rumor of USB-C replacing the current Lightning are the riskiest bets of Atherton Research analyst Jean Baptiste.
A smaller notch
It seems probable and logical that Apple tries to reduce the notch as much as possible. That cutout in the screen necessary for the sensors of the facial recognition system and the front camera to work has been one of the most controversial elements since it was shown on the iPhone X, more than a year ago. That has not prevented becomes something envied by the vast majority of brands that have imitated it on their devices ad nauseam. What was to become an element of the iPhone, has ended up being almost an industry standard.
In the next generation of the iPhone, the one that launches in 2019, it is possible that Apple get components reduced enough to make the notch smaller. It is something possible, probable and logical, so we can include it in the pools that will be made during the coming months, because we will not see the iPhone 2019 until September, at least.
On-screen Touch ID and USB-C
These two rumors are already harder for me to believe. Why go back to Touch ID when new devices lack it? Even the iPad Pro already includes Face ID as a security system to unlock the device. The security of Face ID is already out of doubt after the initial mistrustIt is a fast, comfortable system and to which users have already become accustomed, so it does not seem very logical that Touch ID will now return, even if it is under the screen. It only remains that the iPhone can use Face ID vertically and horizontally, as is already the case with the iPad Pro.
And what about USB-C, which we have already talked about many times in other rumors, and which never ends up appearing. The truth is that the iPad Pro includes it, but I think that for "professional" reasons more than by the conviction of Apple that it is the connector of the future for its devices, at least for the immediate future. We will see what these rumors are, because the year has just begun.
Apple with its iPhone X was not the first to implement a notch on the screen, it was Essential Phone