Uh-oh, looks like the iPhone 8 won't have a fingerprint sensor under the screen

The gift of HomePod firmware just keeps on giving. 

Yesterday, developer Steve Troughton-Smith poked a bit through the firmware for Apple's yet-to-be-released smart speaker HomePod and found that the upcoming iPhone 8 will indeed be all screen on front and have 3D face scanning capabilities. 

Today, he poked through the code some more, and the news is not very good. 

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It appears that the HomePod firmware has no reference to any sort of ultrasound, under-the-screen Touch ID fingerprint sensor. 

For what it's worth… I've seen nothing to suggest an ultrasound under-the-display Touch ID here. Looks like not this year. Quash that one

— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) August 1, 2017 Read more...

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