That **** failed. I don't care how their marketing team tries to spin it. The proof is right there on video. It failed. Reply all you want but I couldn't care less. #suspect
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Apple Says Face ID Didn't Fail Onstage During iPhone X Keynote
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And those who were high enough in Apple to be anywhere near being able to handle the demo iPhone X didn’t realise they’d locked it into passcode-only mode? After no doubt several rehearsals?
I don’t buy it.
No off course not, you have to lie on the floor curled up into a ball with your hands in front of your face
Exactly my thought. I do believe this version, but as you say Face ID should not always scan the hell out of everything looking at it. Unlocking should be triggered somehow by the user proactively.
Please tell me you thought before you wrote this
If you retry too many times the face id is disabled at which point only passcode will work when you touch the screen to see what is going on .
Completely agree. Click the power button, raise and unlocks. User should have control
Shoo. Back under your bridge clickbait troll.
I want to make sure everyone does understand that this same thing that happened in the presentation happens with TouchID. If you restart your phone, you need to enter your pin in once before you can use it. If you put a finger that isn't setup for authentication over it multiple times, it will disable TouchID until the passcode is entered. It seems like this is going over everyone's heads like this is a new thing only with FaceID.
Even if it had been a fail, I wouldn't have too worried. Murphy's law rules. What I find more concerning, is that the unlocking itself seemed slow during the presentation - not to mention that the Chief of Software is standing on stage emulating the sounds of an egg laying hen.
I would have been more impressed in retrospective, if during the software developer's conference a few weeks back, Craig had presented massive updates to let's say the Photos App to make up for the cancellation of Aperture.
But I guess the priority of Apple are laying now in the animation of "mystical creatures" like the Unicorn.
I would have been more impressed in retrospective, if during the software developer's conference a few weeks back, Craig had presented massive updates to let's say the Photos App to make up for the cancellation of Aperture.
But I guess the priority of Apple are laying now in the animation of "mystical creatures" like the Unicorn.
Okay, so how many times will FaceID trip during a day and you'll need to put your code in? I think they should extend that setting from 2 to at least 5. I hope you can manually alter this,
It shows a different message after a restart...
“Touch [Face] ID requires your passcode when iPhone restarts”.
Why would SOS mode be enabled?
Despite their best efforts they encountered an unlock problem in front of the cameras. If Apple can get it wrong can’t anyone?
I guess there should be some physical trigger for Face ID to start recognizing faces, all other times it should be off, else this tech can become a pain, making people punch in passcodes most of the time. Maybe a power button tap/click, or tap-to-wake kind of screen function. Only once the display is on, the dot projector should fire up and start recognizing faces. That would be somewhat practical. Then again, an always-on screen digitizer for the tap-to-wake function might result in battery drain.
I hope Apple copies these useful Android gestures in the future. Tap-to-wake is a great feature IMO.
I hope Apple copies these useful Android gestures in the future. Tap-to-wake is a great feature IMO.
Even if someone gets your phone unlocked with your face, they still need to know your PIN number to get into the FaceID/TouchID section and they would need the pin to wipe it.
Please do.Take a break until... oh I dunno, November?
I'll see myself to the door
The trigger is waking the phone. As long as you don't have randoms touching your phone you will be fine.
Maybe, but really - how often would you actually do that?
My main worry about Face ID is just about how fast it is, and how much in front of my face it needs to be before unlocking. With TouchID, its unlocking pretty much straight after I pick it up. So it would be unlocked by the time it was in front of my face, rather than having to get in front of my face before it starts to unlock.
And also Apple Pay - typically I hold the phone out at at the reader with my thumb on the home button. Needing to put the phone in front of my face doesn't sound as convenient.
Tie will tell I guess, and hey - first world problems and all that.
What "proof" is "right there on the video" that shows "it failed"?
Can you spell it out for us please?
Think of the phone as something which can finally understand you by looking at you rather than you touching it to find out who you are and just like someone who just gets a new vision it will finally see everyone but the phone is looking at you , just you , it wants you and locks itself down if it sees too many people who are not you because it needs to see you so you can touch it , so you can open it and try all sorts of gestures on it
As I always say:
If a random person on the internet thinks of something, chances are Apple already have.
If a random person on the internet thinks of something, chances are Apple already have.
No, didn't. For whatever reason you want to be in denial, that's your prerogative. It was interfered with the other individuals, and Face ID did exactly what it was supposed to, with every new restart, the user has enter the passcode before Face ID will function normally again. That's not failing.
Cue all of the rare circumstance examples where the cappuccino-hipsters will be majorly inconvenienced when showing their friends how many Instagram likes they got on their Trump-is-Hitler2.0 post.