A new rumor suggests that Face ID could be located under the display in the iPhone 16 Pro. Dynamic Island could be greatly reduced to only house the punch selfie camera.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max // Source: Anthony Wonner – Aroged
The main reason for the existence of the notch and then of Dynamic Island on iPhones is Face ID. Apple’s facial recognition system requires too many sensors to place them under the screen. If this is also what has made (and what makes) the identity of Apple smartphones, it is above all a technical constraint that the competition has not followed.
In a few years this could be history.
Face ID for the screen: it would be soon
As 9to5Mac recalls, we know that Apple has prepared patents for Touch ID and Face ID under the screen. Technically, it could be possible to integrate the two unlocking functions, but this would incur an additional cost. Some analysts have been leaning towards an integration of Touch ID under the screen and Face ID in Dynamic Island for the next iPhone 16 for several months. Others like Mark Gurman, an often well-informed Bloomberg reporter, don’t believe Touch ID will return to iPhones. The Korean media The Elec advanced last year the thesis of a punch design with Fade ID under the screen.
Apple iPhone 14 Pro // Source: Anthony Wonner for Aroged
This same newspaper says these days that “Apple is expected to make a big change to the lower range Oled of the iPhone 15 series this year, and apply the ‘Under Panel Face ID’ function which hides Face ID under the screen from the Pro range next year in the iPhone 16 series”, relays Patently Apple. The latter also specifies that the manufacturer could bring the selfie camera under the screen after having integrated Face ID under the screen. Something to improve the immersion and design of future iPhones.
On the side of 9to5Mac too, we are going in this direction: the media writes that “there seems to be a growing consensus that the iPhone 16 Pro models will be the moment when patents become reality”.
Dynamic Island will arrive on all iPhone 15
The media Patently Apple also relays a new report from a supply chain in Taiwan: it “claims that Apple has confirmed that it will apply its Dynamic Island camera aperture to the four iPhone 15s scheduled for release in september “. Information correlated by Bloomberg on January 9.
Enough to cause a definitive break between the iPhone 11 to 14 and the iPhone 15. Today, only the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max benefit from Dynamic Island.
In 2023, Apple will (certainly) present its new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Max, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra. Price, release date, technical sheet… We take stock of the first information available about them.
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