Leaked photos show iPad Mini 2 with fingerprint scanner | Fingerprint Scanner for iPad Mini 2 | Will iPad Mini have fingerprint scanner ? |

On September 27th 2013 DoNews, a Chinese News agency released leaked photos of Apple's iPad Mini 2. These photos show the new iPad model to have the same gold style backing as the new iPhone 5S. The "Home" button also appears to be very similar to that of the iPhone 5S. The same metallic ring around the button can be seen, indicating the iPad Mini 2 may come fully equipped with a fingerprint scanner.

It will be very interesting to see if Apple does choose to include a fingerprint scanner with Touch ID to enable users to now unlock their Apple iPad Mini 2, after much criticism about the tech giant openly sharing information with the United States National Security Agency (NSA).

The new security feature, Touch ID, for the iPhone is also receiving some criticism about being easily hackable. Some YouTube videos can show this security measure being hacked in under 30 hours. This would seem to contradict Apple's high thoughts of the security feature, claiming that there are only 1 in 50,000 odds that another print could be recognized instead of the real one. Also that this 1 in 50,000 is far better than the 1 in 10,000 odds of guessing a typical 4-digit passcode.