Alleged iPad Air 4 Manual Depicts All-Screen Display With Touch ID Built into Power Button

[tripleburst]

Another leak, this time in English but it looks like a lot of the text has been blurred for some reason.

Maybe because it's referring to the Ipad Pro and it's fake.

 

[manu chao]

Touch ID allows this in a single motion by clicking instead of just touching the button, but Face ID requires a second activity (swipe up) after unlocking to perform the same action.

It’s one single motion with both. With TouchID it is a largely vertical motion (landing a helicopter), with FaceID it’s a largely horizontal motion (landing a plane).

FaceID has the benefit that you can unlock notifications without any action besides getting the phone close enough to your face (using raise to wake or lightly tapping the screen to activate it). TouchID additionally requires that you land on of the authorised fingers relatively precisely on the sensor. Here FaceID has advantages with gloves and TouchID with fixed mounting of phones.

 

[Arctic Moose]

It’s one single motion with both. With TouchID it is a largely vertical motion (landing a helicopter), with FaceID it’s a largely horizontal motion (landing a plane).

No, with Face ID there are two distinctly different actions, with very different sets of requirements.

Unlocking with Face ID doesn't work for me if the phone is laying on a desk, stuck in a car dock or if I am holding the screen away so that the light will not disturb sleeping family members. These are all common occurrences. Sometimes it doesn't work for no good reason at all, maybe I need to shave, or looked at it wrong. Who knows.

Viewing the latest used app or the home screen doesn't work if I'm wearing gloves, holding the phone one-handed with the wrong grip or if I for whatever reason do not want to touch the screen, also all common occurrences.

To unlock the phone and view the front-most app all these requirements must be fulfilled, which is significantly more restrictive than Touch ID. The Touch ID requirements are practically the same as only the swipe up for the entire set of actions, with two minor differences which is that something (such as moisture or using the wrong finger) could cause ID to fail, and that pressing with a thumb on a button in many cases is less restrictive than being required to have a grip that allows swiping.

For the Face ID process to be comparable you would have to be able to gesture with your face instead of swiping with a finger to get to the app or home screen. (Preferably, just let me configure Face ID to skip the damn notifications screen, and I'd be happy.)

FaceID has the benefit that you can unlock notifications without any action besides getting the phone close enough to your face (using raise to wake or lightly tapping the screen to activate it).

Which is absolutely zero benefit in my use case.

 

[manu chao]

Unlocking with Face ID doesn't work for me if the phone is laying on a desk, stuck in a car dock or if I am holding the screen away so that the light will not disturb sleeping family members. These are all common occurrences.

How many hours per day do people spend driving? For some, it might be an hour or two per day but for others, it might be zero. And even if you have to use the phone while driving for navigation (which again most people driving the same commute every day won't use), beyond that, one should use the phone very little while driving. On top of that, clearly not everybody is using a phone mount. So, maybe common in that a lot of people might be affected by it but not common in that it represents a very small percentage of total phone usage. Laying on a desk, if you have a free hand to place your finger on the TouchID sensor, you can almost as easily just pick it up. And trying to prevent the screen illuminating others for a second or two is again a very marginal case.

Sometimes it doesn't work for no good reason at all, maybe I need to shave, or looked at it wrong. Who knows.

Sure, but overall the vast majority of people report a similar failure rate with TouchID. Nothing works 100% and when it doesn't work it often is because iOS wants you to occasionally enter your passcode or you triggered biometric check accidentally without your face or (correct) finger being in front of the sensors.

Viewing the latest used app or the home screen doesn't work if I'm wearing gloves, holding the phone one-handed with the wrong grip or if I for whatever reason do not want to touch the screen, also all common occurrences.

All of which apply equally to both FaceID and TouchID.

I don't know how you are holding the phone, but for me, picking up the phone and unlocking it is one single motion that I don't have to think about at all.

As I said in my previous post, FaceID is only inferior if you for some reason cannot easily pick up the phone (eg, mounted in a car). And TouchID has a comparable 'failure mode' that is gloves. To me, that is pretty much a draw.

And you said you wear gloves sometimes, but you there is zero benefit for you being able to read notifications without having to take off your gloves?

Once again, once you have picked up your phone, unlocking via TouchID or FaceID is the difference between landing a helicopter or a plane. With the former, you have to land your finger more precisely, with the latter, you have to move your thumb a longer distance but less precision.

 

[Arctic Moose]

How many hours per day do people spend driving?

almost as easily just pick it up

a very marginal case

the vast majority of people report a similar failure rate

What's your point?

Sorry for wanting to use my phone wrong, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

And even if you have to use the phone while driving for navigation (which again most people driving the same commute every day won't use), beyond that, one should use the phone very little while driving.

Route selection and traffic alerts are essential for lots of people that are commuting and know the way. Personally, I also use DashCmd and OBD Terminal all the time for vehicle diagnostics and feature development.

All of which apply equally to both FaceID and TouchID.

Selective quoting. Please read my post again.

I am aware that this is true, and it is entirely unnecessary. Face ID could be so much better.

I am more concerned about my own needs than those of "most people".

I don't know how you are holding the phone, but for me, picking up the phone and unlocking it is one single motion that I don't have to think about at all.

To me, that is pretty much a draw..

I am happy for you.

But, you know what? I care more about how it works for me than how it works for you.

And you said you wear gloves sometimes, but you there is zero benefit for you being able to read notifications without having to take off your gloves?

Please read my post again. I have notifications for everything turned off. Unlocking with Face ID lands me on an totally blank and entirely useless screen.

Here's a visual aid:



See? Useless. (Unless I need a flashlight really quickly, I guess.)

I don't want notifications. I find them distracting and I get stuck reading text messages, e-mails or checking Facebook when all I wanted to do was read the next few lines of that article I was in the middle of.

Once again, once you have picked up your phone, unlocking via TouchID or FaceID is the difference between landing a helicopter or a plane. With the former, you have to land your finger more precisely, with the latter, you have to move your thumb a longer distance but less precision.

If Touch ID is landing a helicopter that makes Face ID first dancing around the cockpit and then landing on the runway. I'd rather just skip the landing part (that requires an entirely different set of skills and prerequisites to be fulfilled) as it is entirely unnecessary for what I often want to do, and just see my content after successfully completing the dance.