You can control your iphone with gestures, but without touching it

In an increasingly saturated market for smartphones and companies that copy each other without the slightest blush, it seems that Apple continues to work to differentiate its flagship product from the rest. And in this sense, those of Cupertino would already be working on a new feature that would allow the iPhone to be used "by moving your finger close to the screen without touching it".

“Contactless gesture control”, the next thing for the iPhone

According to information released yesterday by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple is working on future iPhone models that will incorporate "contactless gesture control" and curved design screens.

As "people with knowledge of Apple's plans" would have leaked, the contactless control feature is described as a gesture system that would allow future iPhone owners to navigate iOS "by moving their finger close to the screen without touching it. " In this sense, this new technology would be advanced enough to take into account how close a finger is to the screen. Of course, if such plans are confirmed, it would still have to wait because Gurman himself points out that Apple is still a couple of years away from achieving it.

Unlike Samsung's Air Gestures technology on Android smartphones, the technology Apple works on would be integrated into the iPhone's own screen, rather than adding any kind of sensor to the device's chassis, Mark Gurman says.

On the other hand, Gurman also notes that Apple is working on a " screen that gradually curves inward from top to bottom" , unlike Samsung smartphones that curl down and towards the edges of the screen. Gurman sources claim that this iPhone update is still "about two or three years away."