Apple decided to copy Samsung for a change

Apple’s 2017 iPhone, a device which may very well be called the iPhone 8, is shaping up to be the game-changing device iPhone owners have been
hoping for. Aside from reports that the iPhone 8 will feature a curved OLED display with an embedded home button , we’ve now heard more rumblings that the device may include an iris-scanning feature as well.
Apple has already begun placing orders for “iris-recognition” chips for its 2017 model iPhone.
Xintec is expected to enter mass
production for iris-recognition chips in
2017, which will boost the backend
house's revenues for the year, the report
cited market watchers as saying. New
orders for iris-recognition sensors
include those for the chips that will be
embedded in the 2017 series of iPhone,
the watchers were also quoted in the
report.
Iris scanning technology, we should note, isn’t new to the smartphone world, but perhaps Apple’s implementation will actually make the feature practical as opposed to merely a cool technology
that no one uses. Should this rumor pan out, it will be interesting to see how Apple positions the iris-scanning feature alongside Touch ID.
It's also worth mentioning that reputed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo earlier this year suggested that Apple was keen on adding new biometric sensor technologies to the iPhone. Specifically, Kuo said that Apple was working on an iris-scanning solution that would enable users to authenticate themselves (and perhaps transactions) with their face and/or eyes. To this end, Apple earlier this year acquired a Emotient, a company whose software is able to analyze and identify a particular face and even varying expressions and emotional states.
As a final point, remember that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 already boasts an iris-scanning feature. We'd suggest you pick one up and try it out for yourselves but there is that little problem of Samsung halting shipments amid reports of exploding devices .