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Welcome to episode 105 of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor Marks and joining me is Mikey Campbell.

Hey Mikey.

So we are going to talk all about Apple, iPod, iPad, Mac, and more. And starting off I want to talk about what could happen with touch

ID. Touch ID is a favorite feature of all of the current iPhones.

It's been on an iPhone since iPhone 5S.

And it's going to change.

I mean, it changed most recently on the iPhone 7,

where instead of being a physical button

it's now just a part of the glass with a haptic engine behind it but we've got

it we've got a piece of news piece of information that says that it's going to change even more.

Mikey what's that about?

So everyone's favorite analyst, Ming Chiquo is, yes, he's saying Apple's going to, maybe not this next generation of

iPhone, but some future generation generation they're going to try to move away from

touch ID and go for a more hands-off

Solution so probably facial recognition or iris recognition so users don't even need to

interact with a device at all to unlock it but still have that same security.

Well, now wait, so you're saying it's going to be two-step facial and fingerprint?

Well, first, I mean, okay, so that's the plan is to go full facial recognition.

But in between, he's saying that there's

going to have to be some sort of hybrid

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