Nothing new really, but it is always news that Apple is missing details of its upcoming releases, and the HomePod firmware is giving a lot of it. If a few days ago we were talking about some features of the HomePod itself discovered thanks to its operating system, now it is the turn of Apple's next big launch: the iPhone 8.
Its design can already be confirmed as you can see in the image, and not only that, but we also already know that the iPhone 8 it will have a facial recognition system that will be used to unlock the device and to make payments. Where will we have the Touch ID of the iPhone 8? Well it seems that the answer is becoming clearer: there will not be.
The renders that we have been seeing for weeks on the internet seem to be confirmed with that scheme of the iPhone 8 that has been found in the HomePod firmware. The design with hardly any frames and that upper slit that the screen incorporates and that will serve to place the sensors and the front camera is confirmed. This design detail does not like many users, but Apple could hide it by using that space as a status bar, same as now, with icons for battery, coverage, etc. on both sides of that cleft. With the black front it would not be noticeable, and the white front ... could it be that Apple abandoned it? With a design like that of the iPhone 8 in which almost the entire front surface is a screen, it seems that a white front does not make much sense.
Another of the most important data of the iPhone 8 will be how we will identify ourselves to unlock the device and make payments. After so much conjecture about where the Touch ID sensor will be placed and the problems that Apple could have had to place it under the screen, it seems that in the end the company would have opted for an infrared facial recognition system as a substitute. This system would be combined with 3D sensors to prevent a simple photo from unlocking the device, as is the case with other competing mobiles. It could also be used in total darkness and it would even recognize the user's face from different angles, even with the iPhone horizontally (on the table) or with objects on the face such as glasses.
That is, if it is confirmed, more than one will have a very big problem, when you are lying in bed wanting to unlock the iphone at night, haha I can imagine it, you take a facial photo for the day and for the night does not recognize you with the messy hairs, hahaha
What does hair have to do with FACIAL recognition?
I think the fingerprint sensor will bring. Many banks trust this identification system and others are adhering to Apple Pay, precisely because of the security provided by the system.
A new identification technology would create many doubts for banks and merchants that provide the system.