Samsung's at it again and this time it stole Apple's Face ID icon

By Oliver Haslam
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Samsung Pass slide with Face ID icon
Samsung Pass slide with Face ID icon (Image credit: iMore)

What you need to know

  • Samsung held a CES keynote yesterday.
  • During the keynote, it threw up a slide explaining Samsung Pass.
  • That slide had what looks to be Apple's Face ID icon on it.

Samsung and Apple have a complicated history. But in reality, it mostly boils down to Samsung "borrowing" design language and features from Apple and then using them in its phones and tablets. Things aren't as bad as they once were, but yesterday the company showed a slide about Samsung Pass. And on that slide was Apple's Face ID icon.

Now, is it possible that Samsung Pass is coming to iPhone? Will users be able to authenticate using their Face ID-equipped iPhone? That's surely the only answer here, right?

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Well, no. Not really. Here's Apple's Face ID icon, for comparison.

Apple Face ID

Apple Face ID (Image credit: iMore)

It seems that Samsung has just ripped off the Face ID icon and called it its own. Because of course it has.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.