I don't think I've ever seen someone who blatently haven't RTOP before. Didn't he clearly say, '... you have to look at the phone *AND* swipe up...' smh.
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Apple Says Face ID Didn't Fail Onstage During iPhone X Keynote
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I don't think I've ever seen someone who blatently haven't RTOP before. Didn't he clearly say, '... you have to look at the phone *AND* swipe up...' smh.
Hey - if you're going to take the moral high ground above "the slightly less educated masses" at least learn how to spell karaoke.
Which is great by the way - what is it with this notion that "educated people" can't also happen to enjoy a bit of light entertainment?
Are you seriously going to tell me that I'm "slightly less educated" than you because I like Carpool Karaoke? If so, I'd rather be uneducated than a snob.
With all the pessimists on FaceID, I feel I am going to get my preorder done faster and phone delivered sooner than my 7Plus(5 days after launch day).
How many people actually watch Apple's events live? Most people who don't obsess over tech will never hear about this, they'll go try it in an Apple Store and base their opinion on the experience there, or someone they know will get an iPhone X and they'll see how it works for them. The only people who will remember this are the Apple hating trolls who were never gonna buy the iPhone anyway.
Valid, although the problem doesn't seem to have been with FaceID itself so much as planning how to handle the phone. It (embarrassingly) occurred to no one that if they play looky-looky with an iPhone X the FaceID function would iterate-out. I guess FaceID is new for everyone. But the masses aren't collectively that bright and won't care that the security actually worked properly. I'm ready to hear all about how "I heard that FaceID has problems." #bungled
I'm also looking at the 8. I don't care at all about 3D Touch, Qi, or absent bezels. I also prefer a headphone jack, so what I really wanted was an upgraded SE reveal. So I'm now torn between an SE with a 3-generation-old processor and a phone that's still too big for my ideal with features I don't need at a price point that hurts. I need to buy now because my 6 is acting wonky and GPS is broken. Maybe the right move is the Apple monthly payment plan with a "downgrade" next year if they put the A10 into the SE.
Edit (9/15): Preordered an 8. My 6 is behaving wonky and GPS is shot so I couldn't wait for an SE with the right internals. Figure I can eBay it in a year of the SE is brought up to speed.
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It is "just looking at it". As soon as you wake the phone, it tries to authenticate. AFTER it does, you swipe up un go to the home screen. That process needs to be reversed.
1) wake the phone. Shows the lock screen
2) swipe up to access
3) FaceID
Just by that logic, FaceID worked correctly. Seeing it is likely someone handled the backup phone and it worked correctly? We may never know.
are you front facing your camera towards people? I dont understand what you mean by trying to find faces?
^^ this
..but still more of a faff that what I currently do.
1) wake the phone pressing the home button, simultaneously unlocking it
I'm really wanting to love the new phone but it feels like FaceID is going to be a pain. What about the part where it can spot you looking at it on a table and unlock itself automatically. Every person who glances at your phone, and there will be plenty, will be a failed unlock and it's back to passcode time.
Apple should have kept TouchID, even on the back, it's better than this.
Fail on comment. Your phone would unlock as you’re the first person who would see the text/notification so as you pass it around, FaceID would no longer be active. Also, I’ve had this happen where TouchID gets locked out from people grabbing the home button as phone gets passed around. So....FaceID is actually better unless you’re concerned about passing your unlocked phone around.
Normally I'd agree that most people don't know about Apple events, but this demo goof was even recreated in a skit on late night TV. And you know SNL will probably do something this weekend.
I was also surprised to overhear my teen daughter and her fellow iPhone friends talking about it, and deciding they'd rather wait an extra year to upgrade in case TouchId comes back. I had no idea they even knew about the event.
(They're also still ticked off about the missing headphone jack!)
HAHA! This will be funny when this happens to you at work in a crowded office when people stop by your desk!
Even without it failing, it showed a failing in the entire concept.
How could it work with sunglasses, if it won't work when you have your eyes closed? (that was in one of the demos on another site that an Apple employee did at the event).
(So people will still be able to keep law enforcement out of their iPhones)
Regarding the presentation comments...yes, still surprised that they have silly things like having to plug an iPhone in during a demo (why don't they have automated intelligent switching setup?) Heh. And why do they have a slide clicker remote, rather than using an app on their Apple Watches???
my understanding is that it is not taking images, but rather using infrared. if so, many sunglasses do not block IR. Would it be able to detect your eyes through those sunglasses? If not, sunny parts of the year will require shade removal.
I'd love a new SE, as nice as the 6 was I prefer the size in one hand of the SE and don't miss the larger screen a year down the line. I design speakers for a living so I often find the headphone jack rather handy! It's been less flaky than my 6 was, always fast and with great battery life. One of the reasons I'm not convinced to upgrade to the 8 (or X).
Which means that if you're looking at the text on the lock screen, then it will go away as your phone unlocks and goes to the home screen. Which means you then have to take additional steps to pull up the text. I always do this as I don't have the content of my lock notifications appear, but many people do, and for them this will be an added step ...
For instance -- as I understand it, the phone will unlock when lying flat on a table without having to pick it up. If I'm at a meeting and my phone is laying on the table between me and my colleague, and he glances at my phone for any reason, it should try to unlock. After a couple of times doing that, then I'll have to enter the password.
True they have been complaining for a while, but they could have reduced the bezel and kept the Touch ID and it would still be a beautiful phone.
Its a Demo - if it does not go to plan for any reason as rehearsed , its a fail. You are actually being pedantic in finding an excuse.
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Try facial recognition on a phone, and get back to us. Amazing how many people are singing the praises , like its the best user experience since slice bread, without having used one
We do enjoy tech and guess what it gets better every day because people criticize it and force the engineers to make it better. That's the way things go.....
Plausible enough.
But what will happen, if I'm on the subway, having a dozen people staring at my iPhone X. Does it pick his "owner" out and unlocks or do I have to type in my passcode in front of all those people..
It only attempts authentication based on a face giving the sensors *attention*; i.e. a face looking right at Face ID. And this next mini-rant isn't an attack on you but here goes...
The thing is with every Apple innovation there's never enough stage time to give you a deep dive into just how much thought and engineering they put into their stuff. We saw a high-level keynote. Of course they've thought of nearly every scenario and poured lots of their ample resources into R&D. Come on, they're not perfect but if we can think of these "gotchas" so can a massive group of software and hardware teams.
Why have we come to think of Apple as collective group of idiots that stumbled into their decades-long success??
You're making this out to be a bigger deal than it is, stop being so nit-picky. If you don't like the feature, there's an iPhone 8 waiting for you. Leave the stock for the people who won't complain.