“Apple will not integrate a fingerprint scanner behind the screen in future iPhones”

Apple is not planning to put a fingerprint scanner behind the screen in future iPhone smartphones. That’s according to Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst who has often made accurate predictions about unannounced Apple products.

The fingerprint on display technology, in which a fingerprint scanner is placed behind the screen, will grow by five hundred percent in 2019 among Android smartphones, Kou says according to 9to5Mac. According to the analyst, Apple is not yet following this trend with the new iPhones that the company will release in the fall of next year. He does not say anything about Apple’s plans for the devices it will release after the fall of 2019.

According to Kuo, there are some limiting circumstances that may have contributed to Apple’s alleged decision not to use Touch ID as part of the display for the time being. For example, the limited support for OLED screens would have played a role, as would the fact that the sensors still require the user to touch a certain part of the smartphone screen to unlock; Kuo states that the technology will not be advanced until the end of next year that it will be possible to touch anywhere on the screen for a successful fingerprint scan.

Kuo reports that Apple’s Face ID technology as a biometric security solution is doing well in current iPhones and that the technology of the fingerprint scanner behind the screen in Android devices is increasingly used as a test to improve the technology. The analyst predicted in July that Samsung will integrate an ultrasonic Qualcomm fingerprint scanner into the Galaxy S10 in early 2019.