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Could the iPhone 8 Touch ID Really be in the Power Button?

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Two days ago we posted about renders that were said to accurately depict the forthcoming iPhone 8 that showed that the phone had a particularly big power button. Now, BGR’s executive editor, Zach Epstein, in an exclusive entitled “I Might Know the Truth About Touch ID on Apple’s iPhone 8,” says that he has heard from three separate “well-placed sources” over the past few weeks that “the iPhone 8’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor is in the power button.”

Epstein says that he was first told the news approximately one month ago by a source that he knows “quite well,” and that all three of the sources have told him accurate information in the past. He says that he did not report what he had been told any sooner than today because the information that he had been given in the past by all three sources had been of “a different nature” to the power button information, and therefore he “didn’t feel comfortable reporting it as fact.” He says that he has finally decided to report it now due to “the lack of answers.” He adds that he was also further convinced by today’s leak of supposed iPhone 8 casings showing the rear Touch ID sensor yet again. “This is a horrible design. It’s not going to happen. These rumors are false.” Epstein says that if the rear Touch ID rumour was real, we would have had it confirmed by a “solid source” by now.

Epstein says that more rumours have surfaced recently of the Touch ID sensor being integrated into the power button, and Apple has previously patented technology that would make this possible. Also, it would certainly explain that extra large power button.

Image: Baidu.

Source: I might know the truth about Touch ID on Apple’s iPhone 8
 
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If the rumour is true, it would be a completely different technology than the existing Touch ID system. Actual produced systems can differ quite a bit from their appearance and descriptions in patent documents.
 
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