In the past two years, the global epidemic has raged, and the unlock function of Apple's mobile phone has also been complained about by many users, because wearing a mask has almost become the standard for people, at this time, apple mobile phone Face ID unlocking and payment methods have become a very "chicken rib" function.
In contrast, the 2D face unlock and under-screen fingerprint unlock schemes used by Android manufacturers have been admired by many fruit fans, and have called on Apple to add under-screen fingerprint unlocking solutions to future products.
But from the current situation, Apple has not launched any products that support fingerprints under the screen, the latest iPhone 13 series still uses Face ID to unlock, consumers who are covered with most of their faces can not use face recognition smoothly, and can only use traditional passwords to unlock.
So in such a situation, Apple's proud face unlock has become a deduction item, but even so, Apple still has no plan to use the fingerprint unlock under the screen, and even completely cut off the research and development team of the fingerprint under the screen.
According to foreign media reports, Apple has made two decisions a few days ago, one is that Apple's engineers will no longer develop under-screen fingerprint technology for iPhones, and the other is to fully transfer the Touch ID team to the Face ID team.
From this point, it can be seen that Apple has further enhanced the significance of the existence of Face ID, although the current unlock range of this technology is insufficient, but Apple has been actively solving the problem of wearing a mask can not be unlocked.
Now, iPhone 12 series and iPhone 13 series models after upgrading to iOS 15.4 beta version, can already support wearing masks to unlock, and users are completely insensitive when using this function, the system can accurately identify whether users have masks.
Apple's mask unlocking security level can also reach the ability to pay, the recognition speed is basically the same as the state of not wearing a mask, before the Apple Watch can achieve mask unlocking, now can be directly as usual unlocked, it is indeed a great news.
Therefore, in such a situation, Apple has no reason to develop fingerprint technology under the screen, and it is not surprising to cancel the research and development of this technology.
For apple's strength, the development of under-screen fingerprint technology is actually completely fine, but Apple has always respected the minimalist design concept, such as face ID face recognition after doing a set of screen fingerprint unlocking, such a program Apple naturally will not use.
Now Apple has finally clarified the final direction, the future mobile phone products will be dominated by Face ID, and will not add off-screen fingerprint technology to the product.
Of course, there is also a possibility of launching a side fingerprint unlock product, before Apple launched the iPad Air that uses the side fingerprint to unlock, and it is reported that the future iPhone SE series products will also use such side fingerprint unlocking solutions.
If the news is true, then there will only be two unlocking schemes for future iPhone products, one is apple's face ID scheme, and the other is the side fingerprint unlocking scheme that has been adopted by the iPad Air.
That is to say, the fingerprint scheme under the screen has been completely abandoned by Apple, Face ID will be the only direction of Apple's research and development, after the realization of mask unlocking, face unlocking will still become the mainstream unlocking method. What do you think about this, welcome to comment, like, share.