iPhone 8's 3D sensor is said to recognize faces in dark-lit environments and even from odd angles, such as when the phone is resting on a desk, as well as permit you to unlock the device by glancing over at it and silence notification sounds just by looking at the screen.
We're only a few weeks away from Apple's September event that will serve as a launchpad for Apple's highly anticipated tenth-anniversary handset. While the rumors have mostly revolved around possible hardware advances for the OLED iPhone model, one aspect has remained largely overlooked thus far: how Apple could market iPhone 8.
Taking Steven Troughton-Smith's findings regarding iPhone 8's resizable, auto-hideable virtual Home button and a split status bar on either side of a notch at the top of an OLED display, user interface designer Maksim Petriv took it upon himself to imagine how popular apps like Apple's Music, Instagram and Twitter might embrace the notch and look like running on iPhone 8.
Earlier this week, we saw some high-quality images comparing iPhone 8 and iPhone 7s Plus dummies that also highlighted a new copper-like color option coming to an OLED iPhone.
Brazilian iOS developer Guilherme Rambo has discovered additional tidbits in the HomePod firmware that hint at some exciting capabilities for iPhone 8's rumored 3D facial scanning technology.
Aside from discovering that iPhone 8's virtual Home button might be resizable, as well as automatically hide and show as needed, iOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith has uncovered alleged metrics for a split status bar at the top of the phone's OLED display.
iOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith dug up some interesting code strings from HomePod's version of iOS that may potentially provide valuable insight into iPhone 8's virtual Home button.
Apple systematically stops signing older firmware for its mobile devices a couple of weeks after a new firmware release to prevent downgrades. Although they’re slightly late this time around, they’ve closed the signing window for iOS 10.3.2 three weeks following the release of iOS 10.3.3.
It’s not too significant for most iPhone and iPad users considering there isn’t a public jailbreak for any iOS firmware newer than Yalu for iOS 10.0-10.2, but it illustrates how Apple isn’t letting up on their efforts to put everyone on the latest firmware possible and to keep them there.
Supplier Lumentum has confirmed receiving a $200 million order for advanced 3D-scanning lasers to be shipped in calendar year 2017 to an unknown client, up from just $5 million in its June quarter's 3D-sensing revenue, and analysts with Loup Ventures think that client is Apple.
iPhone 8 is said to come in three colors—Black, Silver and Gold—and The Loop's Dave Mark today was forwarded interesting images of some dummy units originally received by Ben Miller, who works for a publisher that owns a site that sells iPhone repair kits.
It irks me a lot to think that Apple's Camera app for iPhone and iPad still lacks the Pause and Resume features when shooting video. That being said, Apple could address this glaring omission in the coming weeks, as first noted by iOS developer Daniel Niyazov.
There will be more, a whole lot more to that sophisticated 3D sensor that should come outfitted on the OLED iPhone than originally thought, with a new discovery indicating that Apple's tenth anniversary phone might suppress notification sounds if you're looking at it.