As the leaks around Apple’s 2017 flagship continue to pour out, one area where doubts still remain is the use of Touch ID and biometric identification. Having already dropped the headphone jack on last year’s model, is Tim Cook ready to throw out the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 8? The more tantalizing prospect is to move away from fingerprint recognition and go with facial or iris recognition. To me this feels like the practical answer to a replacement Touch ID system. Now, will Tim Cook gamble away a fingerprint sensor for a gee-whizz software solution, or will he play it safe and double up?

Source: Forbes July 05, 2017 23:48 UTC