Google’s Pixel 11, coming in 2026, is now rumored to resurrect a characteristic final seen on the Pixel 4 from 2019. Google is outwardly contemplating including an under-display infrared digicam to the Pixel 11 technology, thus enabling safe face unlocking.
The final time a Pixel had one thing like that was in 2019 with the Pixel 4. Google then gave up on the characteristic, solely to now be fascinated by reintroducing it in a brand new vein (that is one thing the corporate does do lots). Whereas the Pixel 4 needed to have a large prime bezel for its display to accommodate the tech, the Pixel 11 will place the IR digicam below the show, so it will not take up any seen house.
Google Pixel 4
2026 can also be when Apple is rumored to start out utilizing under-display IR cameras for its Face ID tech, by the way. Google’s Tensor G6 chipset, which shall be powering the Pixel 11 household, can have help for infrared face unlock by means of an under-display infrared digicam.
In fact, the truth that the chip will help this characteristic does not essentially imply the characteristic will see the sunshine of day. Then again, the Tensor G6 is a chip Google is custom-designing for its personal smartphones and nothing else, so it would not make any sense baking in such help if nothing was to come back out of it.
