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Apple's Face ID Feature Works With Most Sunglasses, Can Be Quickly Disabled to Thwart Thieves
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if your fingers are messy, chances are you can't use the phone anyway. so unlocking the phone using FaceID and then can't use it since your fingers are messy.
So it begins. As more info comes out FaceID is sounding better and better and people dismissing it now will be the same people who a year or two from now swear by it and make threads stating how much they love it over TouchID now. TouchID was controversial when it first came out and people came out of the woodwork to dismiss it left and right. Now we wouldn't even consider a phone without a fingerprint reader. The same will happen with FaceID.
It won't work while sleeping as FaceID is attention-aware, i.e. you've got to be looking at the device to unlock it with FaceID
On a side note, it's bothering me that Craig signed his email off as "- craig" without capitalizing his name.
I will apologize. I saw sunglasses and committed an internet sin. I formed an opinion based on a single sentence without reading the rest.
I have seen them stopping and questioning moms like me at the local shopping center. I got stopped and questioned a lot in parks and open public areas in the suburbs. It's a creepy enough nuisance that I stick around my house now that I'm out in the country with more wide open spaces that belong to me and my neighbors that we share.
I guess it depends where you live and what's going on in the community. The drug trade flourishes around our state and we have some gang problems so I guess that's part of it. I'll never know for sure until they explain it all, if ever.
There is nothing on my iPhone but texts with friends and family and pictures of friends and family, but I still wouldn't want any stranger, even a policeman, going through all of the contents of my phone without my being guilty of a serious crime. I don't even litter or jaywalk. That doesn't prevent innocent people minding their own business from being accosted by police. Sometimes it's just mistaken identity.
Better yet, someone now can take your finger while you're asleep and unlock your phone with it.
Please spread the word, this is another internet myth/fake news anyways. A police officer can't search your phone without your permission, unless they have a search warrant, or in certain very limited exigent circumcstances. It doesn't matter if it is unlocked or if they know your passcode, etc. Under the 4th Amendment you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of your smart phone; thus the "warrant requirement" applies and a cop would need probable cause that you had committed a crime to get a search warrant to go through the contents of your phone in most all circumstances.
I am in the same boat. I really don't understand all the people on the internet complaining and moaning about how this phone isn't a big enough of an upgrade or not innovative enough. I mean its the biggest redesign since going from the 3GS to the 4. How could you not be excited about this new design? I think it looks great and it is the iPhone design I have been waiting for for years. I am sure there will be some software bugs here and there regarding the notch and landscape mode but Apple will more than likely settle it.
Or open your wallet, or go through your pants pockets, or file cabinets, read your diary, peruse your photo albums, etc. What are we going to do??? How have we survived these many centuries???? Is the species doomed???
I think most people are missing what all Face ID could be used for. You use Touch ID to get into your bank app... once. What if the bank app updated app checks for your face every 30 seconds? Never having to worry about touching the home button when you open a protected app. Maybe a setting that closes Safari private tabs if it doesn't recognize the face. Lots of security potential.
I believe Apple would claim that it is significantly better because, according to Apple's keynote, it is more secure than finger prints and it allows Apple to get rid of the chin of the phone and use it for more useable screen space.
It's going to turn really ugly when the late night talk show host monologues start piling on with jokes and then The Simpsons, Family Guy, and other cartoons. TimMAY! What have you done?
Well I live in the burbs. I wasn’t aware ordinary people are frequently interacting with cops where the cops would be asking for their phones.
I don't know, I'm just joining in on the mass hysteria.
Would putting the touch id in the back be less of a trade off than this facegate? I actually don't mind the new tech but I feel that you necessarily don't have to take two steps back to take a step forward. I know people would have moaned about touch id in the back anyway but still a better compromise.
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Craig could address animojis and his favorite turd emoji but not an important security feature?
Q: "What will prevent a thief from taking my phone, pointing it at my face, and running?"
A: "There are two mitigations: if you don't stare at your phone, it won't unlock. Also, if you grip the buttons on both sides of the phone when you hand it over, it will temporarily disable FaceID."
I didn't really find solace in Craig's answer to be honest. "Don't stare at it" isn't good enough, as that places responsibility on the victim to be conscious of their actions while a theft or confiscation is taking place. Most will try to get their phone back- likely, while looking at their phone in the other person's hands.
His second answer- using the buttons- also isn't good enough as it's a preventative action, but who knows when a theft or confiscation is going to occur? Once again placing responsibility back on the victim.
PS: I like FaceID, but Apple really needs to go back and think this one through. Maybe by using a TouchID built into the power button for future models.
A: "There are two mitigations: if you don't stare at your phone, it won't unlock. Also, if you grip the buttons on both sides of the phone when you hand it over, it will temporarily disable FaceID."
I didn't really find solace in Craig's answer to be honest. "Don't stare at it" isn't good enough, as that places responsibility on the victim to be conscious of their actions while a theft or confiscation is taking place. Most will try to get their phone back- likely, while looking at their phone in the other person's hands.
His second answer- using the buttons- also isn't good enough as it's a preventative action, but who knows when a theft or confiscation is going to occur? Once again placing responsibility back on the victim.
PS: I like FaceID, but Apple really needs to go back and think this one through. Maybe by using a TouchID built into the power button for future models.
I am an astronaut. If it doesn't work when I have my space suit on I am out.
CrappleLOL
But seriously though. Let's be honest, people use their phones while driving. They just do, don't pretend otherwise.
FaceID is going to be incredibly dangerous in this respect. My Lumia 950XL...it's no good if you want to unlock to check something behind the wheel.
Again, please don't pretend everyone are saints and never ever touch their phone while driving. You do. They do. People do. They shouldn't, but they do. Apple needs "trusted devices" like Android...if you are paired to your car's Bluetooth, the device remains unlocked while connected.
FaceID + driving = yikes. Ya'll will see.
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