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Code in iOS 12.1 Update Hints at Landscape Face ID Support for Upcoming iPad Pro Models
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You don't need a dongle.
Lightning is limited to 18W (so far). USB-C can carry at least 100W.
It seems to me the TrueDepth camera might be located on the long edge, so FaceID works in landscape. The question just might be, will it work in portrait?
How about support for not just external monitors, but external multitouch monitors so developers and users don't have to be limited by the size of the iPad screen? Go to any location that has a large mounted interactive touchscreen and compare that to an iPad on a stand. Seriously? Do people honestly expect Apple to make a 40 inch iPad?
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What problem did it solve that couldn't have been solve by other means?
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Agreed, I hate bezels too. But I love Touch ID. Would have been nice to see it on the back of the phone.
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Am I the only one that likes to keep a sticker on the iPad camera when not in use?
Not very useful if you need to unlock with face-id.
By the way, who on earth needs to use an external monitor with an iPad?
The monitor would have to be a touch monitor to be even remotely useful/usable.
Anyway, what’s wrong with airplay? Just by yourself a cheap ATV2 if you need that functionality.
Not very useful if you need to unlock with face-id.
By the way, who on earth needs to use an external monitor with an iPad?
The monitor would have to be a touch monitor to be even remotely useful/usable.
Anyway, what’s wrong with airplay? Just by yourself a cheap ATV2 if you need that functionality.
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I don't understand why it's necessary to orient the device in ANY particular orientation for the face ID to work.. It can't figure out what an image is at any input angle? This makes no sense to me.
Outstanding.
What's sad is it wouldn't even surprise me if something like that became true now.
I manage about 400 Apple devices at work, and I keep trying to lure employees with ancient Dell computers to the iPad Pro, but as soon as they learn that they can't connect to their desktop monitors and use Excel and a mouse, they opt for a Microsoft Surface instead. I can't blame them. Such a feature isn't an engineering hurdle, especially when 99% of monitors in the work place are connected to an Apple TV. In the meantime, I keep buying $40 HDMI to Lightning dongles. Those silly things are stolen or lost daily.
Here's a feature that iPads do have built in that no-one wants... "Shake to Undo". That default feature has caused a few meltdowns where I work.
No they didn’t. It will have a lightning jack. And regardless, they didn’t say “we need usb-c, so let’s change the thickness and shape of the whole device to accommodate.”
"Apple's iPad Pro models are rumored to feature edge-to-edge displays with no Home button, no headphone jack, and a USB-C port instead of a Lightning port."
I just bought the iPhone SE for the HP Jack/Home Button in lieu of the "new" iPhones. Will probably have to do the same when the "new" iPad Pro rolls out for the same reason. Here is to being "retro"
I just bought the iPhone SE for the HP Jack/Home Button in lieu of the "new" iPhones. Will probably have to do the same when the "new" iPad Pro rolls out for the same reason. Here is to being "retro"
No one knows anything for sure yet, so keep your panties on. But if these schematics are real, it sure looks like they changed it for usb. And that’s a good thing all around.
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Maybe i'm the only one on his, but i hope this NOT to come...
Reason, is while iPad is big, and many can use in in landscape, and its a inconvenience to rotate it temporary , just to recognize your face, its just make makes more sense in portrait mode. Do people facetime in landscape mode as well then?
Reason, is while iPad is big, and many can use in in landscape, and its a inconvenience to rotate it temporary , just to recognize your face, its just make makes more sense in portrait mode. Do people facetime in landscape mode as well then?
<rant incoming> It makes exactly zero sense that "Landscape FaceID" would require new, different or additional hardware to "Portrait FaceID". I know it's a strong statement to make, but this developer clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.
The hardware of FaceID is a 3d mapping sensor. That's it. Everything else is software. The sensor is not going to be affected by a rotated face. Software is needed to detect the orientation of the face, not hardware, and then software is needed to rotate the 3D face map before it is analysed, regressed and matched.
If Apple decide not to bring landscape unlocking to iPhone, then fine. I don't see that to be a huge inconvenience. But I don't think people should be trying to justify that as anything other than a usage design restraint implemented by Apple for whatever reason.
Apologies for rant.
Oh, and FWIW before someone asks, I am an Engineer, with a background in 3d mapping and pattern matching.
I wonder how much time and money Apple actually put into attempting to make FaceID work in landscape on the X... it is literally the only disappointment with the tech. So great to have my phone sitting on a wireless charger on my desk at work 2 feet from my face and tap the screen to have it unlock almost instantly when looking at it. Sucks when it doesn’t work when I leave it in landscape mode after watching a video...
Imagine an iPad that when docked using the smart connector it enables a monitor to be used and the iPad itself transforms into a keyboard and multitouch trackpad kind of like the bottom of a MacBook. the keyboard would allow for haptic feedback similar to what will be found on the iPhone XR to simulate key presses. the trackpad, if apple doesn't want to enable a cursor, could be more like the Apple TV touchpad. the iPad powers the monitor via usb c and charges itself using the monitor. when you are ready to go just lift the iPad from the smart connector dock, no need to plug any cables in.