The allegedly planned transfer of Face ID facial recognition technology under the iPhone screen is said to be delayed. A well-known display analyst, who last claimed in January that Apple was planning this change for the iPhone 16 Pro in 2024, has now corrected himself.
Ross Young writes in a brief tweetthat he does not expect Face ID to move from the display recess to under the screen glass before 2025. The reason for this are problems with the sensor, which apparently does not work as planned.
Apple allegedly dependent on Samsung
This puts an iPhone with a full display further into the distance, if Apple is actually planning it at all. Last year, the relocation of the Face ID sensor was predicted for the iPhone 15 Pro later this year. A few days ago, a report by the US online magazine “The Information” said that the US company could not act as freely with the displays as it would like. It states that Apple is dependent on Samsung as a supplier for OLED displays and that its own plans for MicroLED screens have had to be postponed again and again since 2017.
Consequently, the suggestion to move the sensors under the screen could also be related. The report states that it is currently out of the question to bring an iPhone with a display from our own production onto the market and that the Apple Watch should first be switched to MicroLED – but this will also take one to two years.
Expert from the display industry
Ross Young says he has been in the display industry for 25 years. Today he works as a consultant and appears again and again with news from the supply chain in the Far East, where it is also about Apple’s plans for future devices. The South Korean trade magazine “The Elec” also reported the schedule for Face ID under the display.
It wasn’t until 2022 that Apple redesigned the iPhone’s display cutout with the iPhone 14 Pro. Instead of a kind of peninsula, it has now moved down a bit and is called “Dynamic Island” by Apple. It bears this name because it is embedded in a kind of additional display via software. Supposedly, this change will also be applied to the standard iPhones, i.e. the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, this year.
(mki)