Prior to the official launch of iOS 13 and its improved Face ID system, Apple’s Greg Joswiak stated that Touch ID isn’t going away any time soon.
“Certainly, we’ll continue to put [Face ID] on more devices but also Touch ID will continue to have a role,” Joswiak told the UK’s Daily Express. “It’s a great technology on our iPad lineup and we don’t see it going away anytime soon.”
“Touch ID was the first mainstream biometric security system and customers loved it,” he continues. “It changed the way that people secured their device, because at that time, even though it’s hard to imagine, many didn’t even have a passcode.”
Joswiak stated that Apple wanted to improve biometric security even further, thus implementing Face ID in 2017.
Joswiak also cited that Face ID has yet to come to additional Apple devices as a matter of expense.
“This is a pretty costly system,” he says. “Our competitors think they can create something similar with a single camera and that’s often what they want to do. Unfortunately, there’s a reason why this is costly; there’s a reason why it has all these components because security is night and day over someone trying to do this off a 2D image.”
“It’s good to take a step back and look at the technological beast of that tiny little notch area of your iPhone,” he continues. “There’s so much important and sophisticated technology inside. There’s a speaker, a microphone, an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor plus the all scanning components of the Face ID system.”
Joswiak also denied that Apple would ape Samsung or other competitors via a pop-up camera that would allow face-scanning without a notch.
Joswiak concluded that Face ID is going to be 30% faster under iOS 13, which is to be officially launched alongside new iPhones on September 10.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and the Daily Express