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Josh Render

The iPhone 16 was the perfect time to bring back this missing feature — Here’s why

IPhone 15 Pro shown in hand.

As a long-time Apple fan, there's one design choice the company has made that truly annoys me, and I hoped it would see a return with the upcoming iPhone 16 series. I'm talking about the fingerprint sensor.

You see, I have a bit of an issue with Face ID being the only way to unlock a device, namely that it's pretty limited. It's also interesting that Apple is one of the only major phone manufacturers that have, since the iPhone 8, completely dropped the feature. The decision was obviously taken alongside the removal of the home button to give users as much screen as possible with the iPhone X.

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