iPhon.fr survey: How would you react to a Touch ID sensor located on the back of the iPhone 8?

L’iPhone 8saw its characteristics
be clarified recently following numerous rumors: technology
OLED, edge-to-edge screen, virtual Home button in particular. But Touch ID, either
this fingerprint sensor, could have difficulty finding its place on
this model. Its passage under the screen would pose manufacturing problems
mentioned here
, involving delivery delays. With this in mind,
different solutions can be considered, one of which is
l’integration on the back of the machine.

And while this is a position already used by some manufacturers,
including Google for the Pixel,
seen in detail here
, we wanted to measure the potential impact of such
change. This is the subject of our new survey.

The sensor on the back of the smartphone could actually be considered by the
apple show-off according to certain rumors, in the event that the difficulties of
production of a sensor on the front under the screen would not be overcome.
Recently, documentsseen
ici
showing what appeared to be a prototype of what iPhone 8 left
glimpse the possibility of aTouch ID dorsal.

This raises different questions: what about the operation
such a sensor with a shell? What about ergonomics, is such a
fingerprint detector is more or less easy to access once the phone is in
main ?

Many questions therefore and this survey forknow your
felt about this possibility
. The question is therefore
following: "how would you react to a Touch ID sensor located on the back
of the iPhone?" withfour possible answers:

  • “Top is better”
  • “We’ll get used to it quickly”
  • “I don’t like it, but if I have to go through that…”
  • “It will be without me, it’s unacceptable”

It’s up to you to share your opinion here:

As usual, do not hesitate todetail your response in the
comments
, which will be used to complete the encrypted data and
give us material for analyzing the results. A big thank you to those
and those who take the time to respond!

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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.