Apple Is Giving the Power Button a Critical Role on the iPhone X

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As you probably heard by now, the Home button will be gone on the iPhone X, and together with it, Touch ID is also biting the dust, with Apple going instead for facial recognition to secure the device.

This means that all the capabilities provided by the fingerprint sensor are replaced with face scanning, and while Apple is confident that this would work correctly, the company has implemented a series of tweaks to make sure this indeed happens.

One of them concerns the power button, which on the iPhone X will be longer than before. And it’s being extended for a good reason: the button will be used to allow payments.

It turns out that while Face ID will indeed be the primary feature that will authorize payments, users will be required to double-click the power button to confirm them. This is pretty much a way for Apple to make sure that no unauthorized payments will be made, as physical access to the device by the owner is required to confirm them.

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