Information from China indicates that Apple has simply abandoned its tools dedicated to manufacturing Touch ID fingerprint sensors on iPhone.
Apple would no longer have any intention of reinstalling Touch ID fingerprint sensors on its next generations of iPhone. This is what we deduce from the information shared this week by a Chinese source. This reports that Apple has simply removed the machines dedicated to manufacturing Touch ID sensors from its production lines. More precisely, this set aside would be definitive and would concern the machines used to manufacture the chips required by Touch ID on iPhone.
This information, which comes from a Chinese expert in integrated circuits who has already been right in the past regarding Apple, comes as the possibility of an imminent return of Touch ID on the iPhone was mentioned by certain rumors a few months ago Again. A track now seriously compromised.
The iPhone SE 2022 would therefore be the last with Touch ID
If this Chinese source proves reliable, Apple would therefore have no intention of reintroducing Touch ID on its next generations of iPhone, at least not soon. By force of circumstances, the iPhone SE 2022 would then be the ultimate model to benefit from Touch ID in the form that we have always known. Rumors also suggest that the next version of the iPhone SE would be equipped with Face ID… thus dropping fingerprint identification.
That being said, other rumors nevertheless suggest that Apple is still working on the design of a Touch ID sensor, but designed to be installed under the screen. The latter, however, would not be ready before 2026, i.e. at the same time as the presumed transition to a Face ID module also installed under the screen. In 2026, the iPhone would change quite significantly. Barring further delays, it is also during this period that Apple should begin to use its own internally designed modem chips to distance itself from Qualcomm’s solutions.