When apple iPhone 5 s introduced a Touch ID fingerprinting scheme, apple had been emphasized protects the Touch ID biometric data security measures, independence is stored in the chip area, the safety of the biometric data cannot access for other applications, also won't stored on the server. But according to the United States patent and trademark office (USPTO) of a new patent, apple treatment method of fingerprint biometric data in the future is likely to change, apple is considering using the cloud storage service to store the user's fingerprint, can not help for the fingerprint data breaches of security concerns.

The patent document is known as "cloud computing devices and related methods synchronous fingerprint biometric sensor data", the USPTO officially announced on December 17, 2015, the patent. Apple to synchronous Touch ID patent fingerprint data, this system can save manually Touch ID of trouble, can be collected through the first main equipment, then uploaded to the equipment up and push to other users.

Patent application notes, apple said the first device of fingerprint information will pass processor using special encryption algorithms, upload identification information of this account, and the fingerprint biometric information to the cloud. Will also need to accept the fingerprint information of the second device by collecting data and cloud fingerprint matching, only both conform to download more cloud encryption fingerprint data.

In addition, Apple also demonstrated in the patent document new equipment matching the cloud after the fingerprint information, can be directly used in Apple Pay Pay and application download.