Although until now they have been the basic elements for the operation of Face ID, it is more than known that both the already traditional notch and the latest island, as design elements to place certain components in the screen area It is something that has never been liked in Cupertino. The ideal design paradigm for the company is for the entire front of the iPhone to be just screen, screen, and more screens, which they took a giant leap forward by removing the Home button with the iPhone X.

What happened with the debut of the notch was somewhat paradoxical, because while Apple resented this design (from the inside out, of course) and some developers tried to design backgrounds and applications in which the notch went unnoticed, we could see how in Play The store appeared plug-ins for Android, the only function of which was to visually simulate its presence on the smartphones on which it was installed.

Well, we’ve known that for a long time Apple is exploring several technological solutions for placement under the screen necessary elements for Face ID (facial recognition technology) or Touch ID (biometric identification using fingerprints) to work, although all attempts so far seem to have been unsuccessful, so in the newer generation we still find the notch in the iPhone 14 and the island in the iPhone 14 Pro .

Now, as we can read in Phone Arena, Apple has patented a new technological solution that would allow Face ID elements to be placed under the screen. For proper operation, this new patent proposes the selective activation and deactivation of specific pixels on the screen. In this way, the iPhone could deactivate the dots that are on the Face ID elements, making this part partially transparent only when its use is necessary, allowing the rest of the time to work in a normal way, i.e. with full opacity.

This is just one step to removing the island, because although you can hide the Face ID features under the screen, the front camera still remains. In this regard, technological solutions are also being tested that allow it to be placed under the screen, but after some rather disappointing first results, it will most likely take some time before a camera under the screen appears that offers the level of quality required by Apple for the iPhone.

However, it is possible that Apple decided to step on the gas in everything related to the disposal of the islandfacing the increasingly heralded iPhone Ultra, we can therefore see significant progress in this regard in the medium term.