While Face ID certainly has its benefits, there are a few reasons why you might find yourself wishing your iPhone XS still had Touch ID. Maybe it doesn't always unlock as quickly as you want it to when you reach for your phone in the middle of the night. Perhaps it doesn't recognize you when you're wearing sunglasses. (Such instances may be fixable by tweaking the setting that requires your attention for Face ID to work.)
Or maybe, like me, you're just tired of having to pick up your iPhone and hold it up to your face whenever you want to unlock it. This was a key advantage that came with the Touch ID home button found on Apple's older smartphones. If you wanted to check your phone without picking it up, you could simply rest your finger on the button and take a quick glance.
Now that edge-to-edge screens have become so popular on smartphones, many companies have removed the home button to make space for that larger screen. But gadget makers like Samsung have chosen to embed a fingerprint sensor directly into the screen instead. Apple could take a similar approach with the iPhone in 2021, according to TF International Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with a reputation for making accurate predictions about future Apple products. According to Kuo, Apple's 2021 iPhones will have both Face ID and Touch ID, as he said in a recent note obtained by 9to5Mac.