According to Forbes, a new patent of Apple has been disclosed recently: in the future, iPhone will use screen fingerprint to unlock, while retaining face recognition, providing users with a combined unlocking scheme. What's special about Apple's patent is that it supports full screen fingerprint identification and can be unlocked anywhere.
For many fruit powder, they may have been used to face recognition unlocking method, but habit is not equal to recognition. According to my usual experience, face recognition has many inconveniences. Wearing a mask to unlock is probably not successful, and it is inconvenient to use.
How about the fingerprint unlocking image before? The touch ID on the home key can be said to be the early image of many fruit powder, so it must be more convenient to use. But in today's full screen era, the home button on the iPhone has become history.
According to the current exposure information, apple applied for a patent to unlock the acoustic fingerprint, which can unlock the fingerprint under the screen. What's more, it can unlock any position on any screen. If it can be applied to the iPhone, the user experience will be improved a lot.
Speaking of the new ultrasonic fingerprint unlocking scheme, there are already successful cases, that is, Samsung's S10 series, which can unlock quickly, safely and accurately, has high fault tolerance for fingers, and the use experience is far better than optical fingerprint unlocking, but the corresponding price will be higher.
At the same time, for this patent, the exposure news shows that it will be applied as soon as 2020. So I'm looking forward to the iPhone in 2020, and we still need to be patient.