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Unsurprisingly, the iPhone 6S will again feature the TouchID fingerprint sensor on it release date that likely will take place in the third quarter of 2015, according to a new report, adding that users can expect significant improvements to come with Apple Pay.

TouchID will be in near-perfect state in time for the next iPhone rollout, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo. It appears that the core purpose of the planned upgrade is to make Apple Pay easier and more secure to use.

In the upcoming edition, the iPhone fingerprint reader “will offer a better and safer Apple Pay user experience by reducing reading errors,” the analyst was reported by Apple Insider as saying in a new research note. It is understood that the TouchID bump up will also affect the 2015 iPad versions following the technology’s debut with the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 in late 2014.

It should be noted that in being a well-known Apple watcher, Kuo has successfully carved a credible name by offering numerous forecasts in the past that mostly proved accurate.

No TouchID on iPhone screen

Kuo also shot down the likelihood of the TouchID ending up relocated and integrated with the iPhone display panel as indicated by an Apple patent that surfaced this week. Embedding fingerprint technology with the iPhone screen is a remote possibility at least in the near term, the analyst offered.

“Though Apple has filed patents for the integration of Touch ID and touch panel, this isn't likely to bear fruit near term as complex algorithms and sapphire cover lens are also required,” Kuo explained. He added that with Apple sticking to the same TouchID module that is designed for embedding beneath the iPhone Home button, shipment for the materials required for manufacture will leap by 77 per cent from last year or as much as 260 million units.

Touchdown schedule

Volume shipments of TouchID modules will start around April this year, the analyst said, likely positioning the iPhone 6S mass production to start in the latter part of the same period or early July. The new iPhone, Kuo predicted, is “expected to launch in 3Q15,” according to MacRumors.

That would place the iPhone 6S release date as early as September 2015, which is in line with the schedule template that Apple has been using in the past few years.