14 DAY TRIAL // We’ve known for a while that Apple was planning to bring back Touch ID to the iPhone after the company previously abandoned this feature with the introduction of the iPhone X back in 2017, but now it looks like the strategy has changed slightly as we get closer to the debut of the iPhone 13.
First and foremost, it looks like the iPhone 13 wouldn’t get Touch ID at all. Initially rumored to make its comeback in 2021, the fingerprint sensor is still scheduled to return to the iPhone, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says this just wouldn’t happen this year.
So while the Touch ID sensor will be back sooner or later, it now looks like it’d rather happen later, with the iPhone 14 due in 2022 now expected to be the one to feature support for fingerprint scanning.
Only available on low-end iPhones
According to the same source, Apple is currently exploring two different approaches, and oddly enough, none of them has the Touch ID sensor offered alongside Face ID.
As it turns out, Apple is currently trying to figure out how to bring Face ID to absolutely all of its iPhones. And right now, the company is thinking of an approach that would have the facial recognition system embedded right into the glass on top iPhones and in a notch on the low-end models. In other words, the top-of-the-range iPhones could come without a notch, as Face ID could end up being embedded into the glass.
And then, the Cupertino-based tech giant does want to bring back Touch ID, but only on cheaper iPhones. The more expensive models would stick with Face ID, so in the long term, the biometric system available on the iPhone could help make a better difference between low-end and high-end models.