What Is Apple BiometricKit? iPhone 8 Face Recognition DevKit Could Release Soon

Apple's tenth-anniversary device, iPhone 8's release is still a month or so away. While the company has been largely silent about the device, it keeps surfacing in leaks and rumors. New features of the smartphone were leaked last week when developer Steve Stoughton Smith revealed the data he had found in the firmware of the company's smart speaker – the HomePod. In one of his tweets, he revealed that the upcoming iPhone would have facial recognition via a software called BiometricKit. While Apple has already announced its ARKit for developers at the World Wide Developers Conference 2017 in May, this is the first mention of the BiometricKit.