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Hoping for Touch ID on the iPhone 16? Don’t Hold Your Breath By Jesse Hollington A special thanks to iDropNews for republishing permission. Images provided by iDropNews. Be sure to visit them at idropnews.com Apple Talk is just that. Talk.The information provided in the Apple Talk section has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation or rumors. While it seems like Apple hasn’t looked back since adding Face ID to the iPhone X in 2017, there’s been a slew of on-again-off-again rumors ever since that Apple was considering a return to Touch ID authentication in the form of an in-display fingerprint sensor. These reports crop up almost every year, and they’re just as consistently wrong. Each new iPhone lineup arrives with improved Face ID sensors — and no Touch ID in sight. Perhaps ironically, the rumor mill has been quiet about Touch ID on next year’s iPhone 16 lineup, giving up on the notion that Apple will ever add it back in any form. However, it seems that at least one source is getting ahead of the game, heading off any other reports that Touch ID might be coming by stating unequivocally that it’s not. As reported by MacRumors, a source on Weibo with a proven track record has shared information indicating that not only will the iPhone 16 not be getting Touch ID, but that Apple has essentially retired most of the equipment used to create the chips needed to power the iPhone’s fingerprint authentication feature. While Apple has moved to a side-button Touch ID sensor on its entry-level and mid-tier iPads, the only iPhone in Apple’s lineup that still sports fingerprint authentication is the third-generation iPhone SE, and that’s solely because it retains the old-school home button of the iPhone 8 — a design that hasn’t been mainstream in at least six years. The Weibo source, who is reportedly an integrated circuit expert, doesn’t provide any insight into how this would affect other products that are likely to retain Touch ID, including MacBooks and iPads. Only the iPad Pro models use a Face ID sensor, and rumors that Apple was considering Face ID for its high-end MacBooks have never come to fruition, leaving Touch ID as the standard across the entire lineup, including Apple’s latest M3 models. This suggests that the chips referred to in the Weibo post may be specific to the home button Touch ID sensor used in the iPhone SE. In that