The iPhone 8 Fingerprint Sensor is on the Power Button

Apple sast is indeed prepare iPhone 8, in the middle of the launch time, which is still uncertain, rumored Apple will remove home button on the iPhone 8.

Touch ID is likely to move to the power button. As reported Slash Gear iApple get a patent that suggests the possibility of a new location for the fingerprint sensor.

The power button patent is submitted in Q2 2015. This means that the Xperia Z5 first slid in early Q4 2015 and became Sony’s first phone to install a fingerprint scanner on the power button.

The fingerprint scanner system on the power button promises a smaller structure than before, allowing it to be mounted on buttons even on the side of the phone with a sleek bezel.

The power button can be positioned above (the original iPhone power button, up to iPhone 5, and seems to be an option again), but other positions are also possible. The technology can be covered with protective glass or even sapphire.

Other Apple patents show biometric sensors that hide beneath the touch screen, either through “transparent finger biometric sensing pixels” or acoustic imaging systems.

For your information. Every year Apple has used the same pattern for its mobile launch. It’s always done in the fall, around September or October.

However, this pattern is likely to change slightly for the launch of the iPhone 8. Based on the report summarized indicating that the iPhone 8 will remain announced in September. But ketersediannya rumored to be marketed in 2018.