Apple Says iPhone X With Face ID Was Intended For 2018 Release

People might have had to wait a whole year for the iPhone X -- if Apple had stuck to its original plan. Executives of the Cupertino company revealed in an interview with Mashable Apple had initially intended to release the new iPhone X next year. Dan Riccio, Apple's SVP of hardware engineering, said the iPhone X with facial recognition technology and edge-to-edge OLED was supposed to release next year, but "with a lot of hard work, talent, grit, and determination" the company was able to offer the device to consumers this fall. It was also a risky move, since Apple was on a tight deadline. "We all knew where we were going," said Craig Federighi, Apple SVP of software engineering, "but there were a dozen things we knew we had to solve, and any one of them could have failed to come together."