Apple says it never worked on an in-display fingerprint sensor

During the months leading up to the official presentation of the iPhone X, there was little talk about how Apple was definitely going to ditch its beloved sizable Home button, and most importantly, where the new fingerprint sensor was going to be located.

Neither one nor the other, Apple completely got rid of the fingerprint sensor but did not relocate it anywhere else. Moreover, according to the latest information transmitted by the Cupertino company itself, the reality is that it never worked on the implementation of a fingerprint reading system integrated into the screen. 

It has been a head of the engineering department of Apple itself, Dan Riccio, who has confirmed that Apple never wasted time looking for an alternative to Touch ID.

I've heard numerous rumors about the possibility that we couldn't get Touch ID to work through the display glass and that's why we removed it. 

The reality is different, we tried to change things and break the limits, we assumed that Face ID was a better solution. We did not waste any time trying to find alternative situations for the Touch ID, neither through the glass nor in any other place since it would have been a distraction from the most important of the advances that the iPhone X includes, precisely the Face ID. 

We also do not know if it is a simple method to get out of the way without the company looking bad for not integrating a functionality that many of us dreamed of. The reality is that not having Touch ID can make a significant number of users flee who are not resigned to being the guinea pigs of a technology that still does not know well how it will work. We still need time and analysis to figure out if Apple's move has been too bold, or if Face ID is really destined to change the way we unlock our devices and pay for our things.