New video compared Touch ID on iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6s [video]

Apple introduced the new generation of advanced device fingerprint Touch ID with increased scanning speed. Among the gadgets with advanced fingerprint modules - two new smartphone iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and tablet iPad mini 4.

The biometric scanner is built into the iPhone press Home, to use it you must first create a backup ID code and enter print samples of the fingers, with which the user will unlock the phone. Fingerprinting with a thickness of 170 micrometers (approximately twice the thickness of a human hair) was analyzed subepidermal skin layers and allows to obtain an image with a resolution of at least 500 ppi. Moving to a new manufacturing process to ensure a higher recognition accuracy and higher reliability read.

Comparative text fingerprint scanner from three generations of smart phones - iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s showed that considerable progress of technology. Touch ID of the second generation runs significantly faster and more reliable. It has higher resolution and wider scan area.



At the moment, technically very complex component is used in the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5s, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 and iPad mini 4. In November this year, will sell 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which will also receive an enhanced module Touch ID.


Previously, in the field of information security Mark Rogers found that Touch ID, used in the iPhone 6, more reliable than the original module iPhone 5s.