MacBook and iMac may get Face ID

Apple registered another patent application describing MacBooks and iMacs with Face ID technology. The document contains images showing the design of future novelties with a built-in face unlock system.

The company notes that computers need reliable mechanisms to protect users' personal data. As a solution, Apple considers "a light pattern recognition module, consisting of a light detector and an infrared emitter." You can design it in the form of a “notch, circle, ellipse, polygon, series of polygons or something similar”, but always on the display or next to it. In the drawings, it is located at the top of the screen and looks like a "bangs", as in the iPhone and some MacBooks.

When the MacBook and iMac with Face ID may appear is still unknown. But do not forget that the registration of a patent does not mean the mandatory implementation of the technology described in it. Often such ideas remain only on paper.

However, the fact that laptops running Windows 11 from a variety of brands already have access to the technology face recognition for locking and unlocking, gives hope that something similar will soon appear in similar Apple devices.