Apple Store App Now Supports Touch ID For Authenticating Payments With Apple ID

[mazz0]

How the hell has it taken them this long? Weird.

 

[newyorksole]

So basically you're using Touch ID twice. Once to authenticate and again to pay.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

If only there were something at the Apple Store I wanted to buy...unfortunately, nothing there excites me.

 

[GadgetBen]

And it will simply change to FaceID when the time comes. Apple'll probably implement the facial recognition with the same framework as with TouchID so apps will automatically work.

Simply? You have no idea.

It's completely different technology which will render all Touch ID contracts void and cost app makers $Millions to redesign their software.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Simply? You have no idea.

It's completely different technology which will render all Touch ID contracts void and cost app makers $Millions to redesign their software.

What? It's not like app makers are implementing touchID this on their own. Developers are currently using the LocalAuthentication framework from Apple that lets iOS do the recognition and verification. It's literally a "ask iOS for verification and if verification success do something or else do something else" program. Apple can switch the verification method on the backend and it would still be very similar code (if not the exact same code) for the developers to implement.

As for the legal side of things, I'm sure Apple has made sure faceID isn't contractually problematic with all the new features they've been implementing with iOS 11. Considering the fact that iris scanners have higher accuracy rates and near-nonexistent false matches compared to fingerprint, I would say financial institutions would welcome the change.

 

[GadgetBen]

What? It's not like app makers are implementing touchID this on their own. Developers are currently using the LocalAuthentication framework from Apple that lets iOS do the recognition and verification. It's literally a "ask iOS for verification and if verification success do something or else do something else" program. Apple can switch the verification method on the backend and it would still be very similar code (if not the exact same code) for the developers to implement.

As for the legal side of things, I'm sure Apple has made sure faceID isn't contractually problematic with all the new features they've been implementing with iOS 11. Considering the fact that iris scanners have higher accuracy rates and near-nonexistent false matches compared to fingerprint, I would say financial institutions would welcome the change.

You are so involved in your own Apple dev love story that you fail to see how none of this would be acceptable to your average corporate institution or the press. The press will ONLY see a change in device operation, from 'safe' fingerprints to a high risk of photo hacking.

It's always a Dev's downfall, you focus too much on calculating the process and not on the reaction to process.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

You are so involved in your own Apple dev love story that you fail to see how none of this would be acceptable to your average corporate institution or the press. The press will ONLY see a change in device operation, from 'safe' fingerprints to a high risk of photo hacking.

It's always a Dev's downfall, you focus too much on calculating the process and not on the reaction to process.

By that logic, TouchID would never have taken off at all. Remember all that press coverage of people lifting the fingerprint off the surface of the phone and bypassing the 5s's security? Besides, the majority of the institutions that need to be "convinced" of the security of the new system would be banks, and like I said in my last comment, it's very unlikely that Apple would have risked disabling Apple Pay by not convincing banking partners beforehand.