Apple Working on Full-Face Recognition System for the iPhone

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The next-year iPhone is going to be quite a major overhaul in many regards, mostly because Apple wants to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iPhone in style.

As a result, the company is working on several hardware upgrades that would not only improve the existing features, but also add new ones to bolster security and performance.

Apple analyst KGI Ming-Chi Kuo says that one such feature is a full-face recognition system that could become available on a future iPhone model. Unfortunately, it’s very unlikely that this feature makes its way on the iPhone 8 planned for this fall.

Specifically, it all starts with Apple’s plans of making an iPhone with zero bezels. Because of the new form factor, the company can no longer use the existing capacitive sensor that’s currently available on the iPhone, so what Cupertino wants to do is switch to an optical sensor that would be installed under the screen.

This allows the iPhone to come with a zero-bezel design and, at the… (read more)

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