14 DAY TRIAL // The iPhone 13 is just around the corner, but a set of renders that made the headlines earlier this week and allegedly showing the upcoming iPhone 14 is generating a lot of buzz on the WWW.
And it’s all because these photos preview plenty of big changes coming on the iPhone, including the removal of the infamous notch.
Introduced in 2017 on the iPhone X, the notch has always been a controversial feature, despite most people eventually getting used to it. However, Apple has been looking into ways to get rid of it ever since, and this year, for example, the notch could be smaller on the new-generation iPhone.
But in 2022, the iPhone 14 could come with a design change that many people are waiting for: the notch could be removed completely, with Apple to stick with a separate approach whose specifics aren’t clear just yet.
Face ID and Touch ID
In theory, the removal of the notch could mean two things for the future of Face ID. On one hand, Face ID could be moved to a new location, and the version that has bigger changes to be real is to integrate all components right into the glass. On the other hand, Apple could kill off Face ID completely, but this is rather unlikely given how much effort the company has put into this particular feature.
But in addition to Face ID, Apple could also bring back Touch ID, once again embedded into the glass.
Analyst Rouss Young says that Apple is indeed working on putting Face ID under the screen, but for the time being, this design isn’t final just yet. So in other words, Apple wants to do it, but it remains to be seen if the company does have the time to get everything right in time for the debut of the iPhone 14.