The placement of the Touch ID<\/a> sensor isn’t made explicit on these CAD-based renders and remains the biggest question mark concerning Apple’s plans. Sources suggest the company has struggled<\/a> to embed the Touch ID technology in the OLED display because of production challenges, which may force it to re-locate the fingerprint sensor to the rear of the device<\/a>, possibly just below the Apple logo.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-3-800x466.jpg\")
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\nThe images offer perhaps the clearest idea yet of how Apple’s redesigned “iPhone 8<\/a>” with edge-to-edge display may look with the screen powered off, if the company does indeed choose to sign off on a stainless steel-edged, all-glass design. The renders are based on the expectation<\/a> that the iPhone 8 will be 144mm tall, 71mm wide, and 7.7mm thick, making it slightly larger than an iPhone 7<\/a> but smaller than an iPhone 7 Plus, and slightly thicker than both.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-1-2-800x497.jpg\")
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\nThe pictures show the smooth front glass of the edge-to-edge OLED display, which is expected to lack any sort of button indentation in favor of an entirely virtual home button. The only visible features appear in a bezeled run-off area housing the microphone hole and a dual-lens front-facing camera, which is rumored to include 3D sensing capabilities<\/a>, potentially for use in facial<\/a>\/iris recognition or future augmented reality functionality.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/iP8-04-800x453.jpg\")
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\nOn the back we can see the widely-rumored<\/a> vertical orientation of a slightly protruding dual-lens camera, a change from the horizontal arrangement used on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. <\/p>\n