Future Apple Watch Models May Have In-Display Touch ID

Touch ID may be a thing of the past in iPhones, merely Apple tree is plain prepping to bring information technology to its smartwatches at some phase in the not-too-distant futurity. A document recently published by the U.s. Patent and Trademark Function (USPTO) shows that the iPhone maker last yr filed a patent awarding that suggests the visitor is all prepare to bring the feature to the Apple Picket sooner rather than after.

Believed to have been outset spotted past Patently Apple tree, the certificate is titled "Antenna Assemblies For Lookout man Bands", and discusses technology that would allow antennas to be embedded inside a watch band. It refers to a "bear upon sensing device, force sensing device, temperature sensing device, and/or a fingerprint sensor". Also, to maintain the comfort of the wearer, the antenna would exist able to bend, stretch and flex, the document suggested.

Future Apple Watch Models May Have In-Display Touch ID — Paradigm Courtesy: USPTO

Practise annotation this is just a patent awarding, which means there'due south no guarantee that the feature will really be introduced to the Apple Lookout man at whatsoever phase. Nevertheless, irrespective of whether that happens, but the news that Apple tree is working on the feature might well set the proverbial cat amid the pigeons and induce other smartwatch vendors to effort and shoehorn fingerprint scanners in their own wearables.

The patent application (20190341677) was published last week by the USPTO, but was filed in the second quarter of last twelvemonth past Apple tree, which means the visitor has been working on the feature for a while now. Nonetheless, as mentioned already, there'south no confirmation on when (or if) the feature volition ever arrive to consumer products going forward.