How would you ever see your own lock screen if it went straight to the home screen as soon as the phone sees your face?
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How would you ever see your own lock screen if it went straight to the home screen as soon as the phone sees your face?
"...looking at the screen a few seconds..." really? at 8:33 she looks at the phone and at 8:34 the phone is unlocked. It's hard to see if she was looking at the screen at 8:33 when he was pointing the screen at her face. In any case at 8:34 the phone was unlocked.
a delay? or side button? (just not a huge fan of swipe gestures). But it sounds ok. Maybe we will have options.
Not sure what you mean exactly. It's the same thing. Not a big deal at all.
Some people (including myself) prefer the phone to go straight to the home screen once TouchID authenticates. This way I can pull it out of my pocket and have it already at the home screen once I've brought the phone up to use. If I want to see notifications I just pull down the shade.
That’s not how I do it. Phone on table, press touch ID and it opens to the home screen. With the iPhone X you (1) have to show your freaking face to the screen, which will unlock it, (2) then swipe up.
So you never pick up your phone to use it after that? Do everything one handed while laying on a table? I don't know, I guess the phone isn't for you then. I don't see it as very complicated at all. The only time I turn my phone on while on my desk is to check notifications. Tap to wake will work fine here. If I want to go to the home screen/use the phone, I will pick it up and then swipe up. I don't consider looking at my phone a step because I would look at it no matter what.
A delay doesn't make much sense. How would the phone know how long you want to see the lock screen? Sometimes you might be reading a notification, and other times you want to go directly to the home screen. I agree that it's actually seems less convenient than what most of us are used to with Touch ID, but it's necessary for there to be some deliberate interaction on the user's part, just like for Apple Pay, rather than have the phone perform these actions automatically just because you look at it.
No, I understand. I guess it just doesn't bother me as I usually pick up my phone to use it. Or I don't mind tapping to wake and then swiping up. As I mentioned, I guess the X isn't for you.
That's fair, and I genuinely hope that there is a setting allows for this, just as there is with TouchID.
Yes, it's different now and requires the agonizing effort of flicking up with your thumb once the phone unlocks, which from the video takes perhaps 1 second in most cases to happen.
You seem to want the phone to unlock and go straight to the home screen, but that's not ideal either as many of us just want to view our notifications while looking at the phone... doing it your way would be more of an inconvenience than having to flip up to go home after unlocking.
The reason the phone does not go to the home screen is that unlike the touch ID, the instant you see the phone, it will unlock, this will not give you time to look at the notifications. the purpose to swipe up is to move past notifications
Yeah i meant with rise to wake if you just unlocked it as you picked it up you may want to see your notifications. Not like with Touch ID when you pick up the phone now you at least can see your notifications before you put your finger on the home button so a swipe is needed imo and it takes like 1 sec to swipe so it;s hardly an issue.
The review (had seen this previously) sounded more like a sales pitch than a real review.
FaceID - would have been great of they would show in low/poor light
During work my current 7+ sits on my desk within reach and I frequently use TouchID to unlock and check the phone ... with FaceID you have to pick up, unlock, then swipe. This is also a reason I am not a big fan of TouchID on the back.
Like I have mentioned previously, I will want to try in hand.
Too many questions ...
I agree that a setting would allow both use cases so "everyone is happy". However Apple is very careful about what things they supply settings for and could have a legitimate reason for not allowing settings control of this behavior.
If I don't want it to unlock but I still want to just see notifications (and it's on my desk) I just hit the home button with a finger I haven't trained TouchID on. If I'm taking it out of a pocket and just want to see notifications then I don't have to do anything with Raise to Wake.
TouchID currently lets me choose the best of both worlds from a UX-perspective depending on how I'd like to view my device at the given time. If FaceID doesn't allow the same Accessibility tweak that TouchID does then I'd lose this convenience :\
Don't you look at your phone to use it? Why is this an extra step?
With Face ID...On desk, tap to wake. View notifications. Take out of pocket, raise to wake, view notifications. It’s the same. You’ll be good.
It should work perfectly in zero light because it has IR emitter. How would they have been able to demo this in a busy demo environment?
I'm guessing you missed the flood of complaint posts when Touch ID2 was introduced and it was so fast it bypassed the lock screen.
That's actually not true. I thought the same exact thing but realized that if you lift your iPhone (assuming it is on raise to wake mode) and just PLACE your finger over the touch ID sensor it actually only unlocks the device. If you PRESS the touch ID sensor it will unlock the device to your home screen.
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This made me rethink my decision of ordering the iPhone 8...might have to return it and wait for the X. The device looks pretty fluid and functional in this video.