Yes but.
if you swipe the notification. password screen pops up, rest finger on home button, it reads your print and opens to that app.
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Do I really have to click to wake AND then scan my fingerprint?
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Yes but.
if you swipe the notification. password screen pops up, rest finger on home button, it reads your print and opens to that app.
I'd much rather have to wake the phone up than have my gf access my phone!
...some nerve she has! You wanna know what that little ***** did? I'll tell you what she did! - She secretly watched me unlock my phone using my passcode - which BTW is 4747 (psssh, like anybody cares here) - and finally deciphered it!!!
Then, she sneaked out of bed, unlocked my phone, and went through my messages, emails, etc.
Needless to say, I had a lot of explaining to do! Like who is Melissa and why I texted her at 5 AM last weekend.
This, gentleman, is why you need the fingerprint scanner.
...some nerve she has! You wanna know what that little ***** did? I'll tell you what she did! - She secretly watched me unlock my phone using my passcode - which BTW is 4747 (psssh, like anybody cares here) - and finally deciphered it!!!
Then, she sneaked out of bed, unlocked my phone, and went through my messages, emails, etc.
Needless to say, I had a lot of explaining to do! Like who is Melissa and why I texted her at 5 AM last weekend.
This, gentleman, is why you need the fingerprint scanner.
Yeah, what the **** people? This forum is full of maniacs on Prozac. It's so fast that you just click and it opens to home screen. Maybe an 1/8th second longer to read. If you notice, you can remove your thumb and it will unlock after you lifted. It's the iOS 7 transitions that are slow.
I think this thread only exists to make more people buy the 5S. 
Would be nice if they could just program it so that if the phone is still locked, and fingerprint security is enabled, Siri/Voice Control are disabled, and it will scan your print instead when you depress the home button. If the device is unlocked, then Siri/Voice Control would work as usual.
Would also be cool if you could enable print security lock sooner than a full sleep/lock so you would just have to scan your print to unlock instead of doing a full wakeup/unlock if you were only away for a little. Unless that does already exist on 5S.
Would be nice if they could just program it so that if the phone is still locked, and fingerprint security is enabled, Siri/Voice Control are disabled, and it will scan your print instead when you depress the home button. If the device is unlocked, then Siri/Voice Control would work as usual.
Would also be cool if you could enable print security lock sooner than a full sleep/lock so you would just have to scan your print to unlock instead of doing a full wakeup/unlock if you were only away for a little. Unless that does already exist on 5S.
This. I'm not sure why this isn't how it behaves. Maybe in an update.
Edit: Just realized they probably wanted to preserve Siri functionality with headphones and Bluetooth. Perhaps an option, then.
If you did not have to push the home button first, it would require your phone to have the finger sensor powered up all the time waiting for your finger. That would take battery power to do that.
This is why the button push is required.
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That is because that action activates the finger sensor for a period of time.
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Nothing like a relationship built around trust. She could also just type in the password or pickup your phone and hold it on your finger while you are sleeping!
It is what she does to you after she finds out you are messing with someone else that really matters!
This is why the button push is required.
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That is because that action activates the finger sensor for a period of time.
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Nothing like a relationship built around trust. She could also just type in the password or pickup your phone and hold it on your finger while you are sleeping!
It is what she does to you after she finds out you are messing with someone else that really matters!
Exactly. But you do have to push the home button first, so what's the point of the metal ring again lol?
And just as your keyboard isn't "always on" the fingerprint sensor could simply be turning on when the password is requested by the App Store. That metal ring isn't doing anything as it stands now.
Apprehensive about it working, not apprehensive that I'll never be able to use my phone again. I expect it to fail.
Well, okay! But I still don't see why you're apprehensive about it, since there are alternatives. If it's worrying you that much, then turn it off!
When you reprogram it, be sure to program the base of your thumb pad. I tend to grasp the home button using the bottom of my thumb when taking it out of my pocket and it wouldn't register until I reprogrammed it using more of my thumb. The sensor is capable of recognizing bigger than just an ordinary finger.
Useful description, thanks.
Question: what's the best (ie fastest and guaranteed) way now to activate the camera-and-photos only sandbox mode?
I'm guessing you get slide to unlock very briefly when you use the home button with TouchID, if you swipe up from the right corner (where the camera in control center is, where the camera in the lock screen is).
But I wonder if Touch ID is fast enough that it could ignore your attempt at accessing something on the slide-to-unlock screen, and leave you at control center (confusion and one more screen tap) or have you scrolling a recent web page (more confusion, home button press, then having to navigate to the camera app).
I have only seen Touch ID in action once... didn't get the chance to ask about this.
Hopefully they have this figured out... maybe they need to move the shortcut to the power button and shortcut to top of the screen.
Unreal. Then don't get the friggin' phone. Man oh man, I can't believe how absurd some situations (people) get.
1/2 the people thought one thing and insist on discussing it even though they don't have the phone.
Others played with it for 2 seconds and misinterpreted what happened.
And some are already anticipating a disaster because it's not a natural motion. Just think about all those things you learned to do that you had never done before and you became better and better at it as you practiced and learned it. When you learned how to drive, was it natural? Do you drive better now than the first time?
I've had my 5S now for about 1/2 hour. It took all of a few minutes of practice to get unlocking the phone to be as smooth as a babies bottom.
Your concern over such a simple thing is worrisome. I suspect that there will be a few who are so very physically handicapped that using the fingerprint id will not be feasible. So you can turn it off. You should consider doing so.
Why DID you text Melissa at 5 AM last weekend?
Btw? Anyone who brute forced my iPhone password would be history. That's rude.
Man that was hilarious.
Now onto the scanner, I was at first pressing the home button and then lifting thumb to place it on sensor shortly to unlock.
Now i know to just press it and it unlocks instantly in one motion.
Yes i was doing it wrong. Ha Ha
Well, if you had taken the time to read my other posts you would have seen that I think it is fine how it is. I just think there is more coming in future updates, because the ring, as it is implemented currently doesn't really have a point.
You think I'm going to take the time to read someone's post history who is declaring the steel band they included in at least 9 million iPhone's doesn't serve a point? It sense the electricity num-nuts, it's one of the steps to identifying a live finger.
Ok, I guess I'll go through it with you again since you are too lazy to read a few pages back.
How could a dead finger push the home button? Since that is required... My point is that the full functionality is not in this version of ios. Something was changed between the keynote and the release of the phone.
At least two solid reasons have been given yet you keep ignoring them.
The primary one being that it's an additional security measure. If the software triggered the sensor, it would remove the 'human' element from the security measure.
When the phone is locked, the sensor doesn't really have a point.
When it's unlocked, it does - it is what tells the scanner to start reading when you set your finger on the home button to authenticate an iTunes purchase.
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