iPhone 8 reportedly won’t come with Touch ID
Touch ID won’t be part of the redesigned iPhone that Apple introduces next week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Rumors that Apple will ditch the fingerprint sensor, which it first popularized on smartphones in 2013, have been popping up for months now. Bloomberg said in July that Apple was hoping to replace the fingerprint sensor with facial recognition, but it wasn’t a sure thing just yet. That same day, an industry analyst went further and said the phone likely won’t include Touch ID on its front. Now, the Journal appears to be the first news outlet to report that a fingerprint scanner won’t be included at all.
The Journal says that Apple ran into production issues trying...