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I'm wondering whether Apple sees this technology totally replacing TouchID, or if they will continue to offer it in the next 3-5 years on some devices?


Word on the street was that they were planning on including both TouchID and FaceID in the X, but scrapped it earlier this year due to low yields during mass production[0].

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/12/apple-struggling-with-t...


Which is contradicted by this interview as well as discussions John Gruber has had with some of his sources.


Given the rumors that they were trying to embed it into the screen, my guess is that 11 will had both FaceID and screen embedded TouchID


If this works well enough, is there a point to going through all that trouble and expense?


Sure, because facial recognition has many applications outside of unlocking your phone, including the trivial ones like Animoji and the new selfie features that were demoed at the Apple event.


Sorry, I meant the trouble and expense of including the TouchID sensor in future phones once you already have FaceID on them.




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