I think the backup device had no face id enable but only faked it.
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Doubts and Speculation Surround Apple's Onstage Face ID 'Fail' During iPhone X Keynote [Updated]
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The early adopters will get the pleasure of dealing with all the bugs and mistakes after paying a premium price for the privilege.
By next year, the next iphone will include all of the fancy stuff introduced on the anniversary model, with the mistakes fixed, and at a lower price.
By next year, the next iphone will include all of the fancy stuff introduced on the anniversary model, with the mistakes fixed, and at a lower price.
If so, that would be a significant issue for some. Case in point: I and my wife each have fingerprints that can open the other's phone, as it's often useful for us to be able to access that phone. I would imagine that situation is fairly common.
Demos can go wrong and it's not necessarily an indication that FaceID is unreliable. Actually, it looks like it works pretty well based on the rest of the demo so the reboot theory could be right. Craig could have mentioned that, but he didn't. We'll know soon enough how reliable FaceID is.
I'm in the camp that wishes Touch ID was still there.
However, Touch ID still fails sometimes to this day. Furthermore, Touch ID wasn't perfect upon its debut either and Apple have made improvements on it since it's debut.
Nobody on this forum can say, "I've never had a single issue with Touch ID not recognizing my print the very first time."
Sure, the Face ID fail had extremely bad timing, but anyone with an ounce of a brain understands that we were watching a tech demo and technology isn't perfect.
However, Touch ID still fails sometimes to this day. Furthermore, Touch ID wasn't perfect upon its debut either and Apple have made improvements on it since it's debut.
Nobody on this forum can say, "I've never had a single issue with Touch ID not recognizing my print the very first time."
Sure, the Face ID fail had extremely bad timing, but anyone with an ounce of a brain understands that we were watching a tech demo and technology isn't perfect.
It might have been said already here, but surely the idea that just looking at your phone is more secure seems very stange to me; fine another face perhaps cannot unlock your phone, but yours can, and according to Apple it works like a dream! So a law enforcement officer just needs to point the phone at your face and bingo it is unlocked! You might not even be aware he / she has done it? Anyone in your group, sitting having a coffee can pick your phone up [again without you knowing] and unlock it? - the opportunist thief snatching it from you, just has to make sure you looked at the phone while he did it, or even a few minutes later and......
Form over function.
They wanted a bezel-free display because designer lust (in my book, bezels are there to let you pick up and hold the phone without touching the display).
Hence, they couldn't have a fingerprint sensor on the front...
But, Samsung had put the sensor on the back (in a stupid place right next to the lens) and got a lot of flack so they couldn't put the sensor on the back...
Hence, OMG we want facial recognition and we want it yesterday... Aw, snap - at least the talking poo worked.
Seriously folks, if your iPhone X gets nicked then you'd better hope that the thief was either the blue one from the X Men or the guy from Mission Impossible - and not Aria Stark from Game of Thrones....
You seriously think they would put him up there with one phone registered to his face and a "wrong demo phone" that is not? Whatever happened yesterday, that's not it.
Well at least Federighi didn't throw the recalcitrant hardware into the front row of Apple execs like we saw Steve Jobs do at one of his keynotes when equipment failed. You can practice 100 times but Murphy's law will occasionally still rule the day.
most of the users commenting here are fans. In the hands-on videos online it also sometimes failed to immediatly work, and we still have to see if this works under different conditions like extreme bright sunlight, on a desk etc.
I'm not convinced yet and since this is - together with the display - the only 2 features why you would want a X, i really need this to work properly.
I'm not convinced yet and since this is - together with the display - the only 2 features why you would want a X, i really need this to work properly.
Let's face it (literally), Touch ID is gone. But luckily the next gen iPhone X will ship with Voice ID too. Simply shout "WOOO" - preferably in a high pitch, and your phone is unlocked in milliseconds - you don't even have to look at it. For extra security, you can also choose the two-step method ("WOOO" followed by "YAY").
Yea, but the those demonstrations don't really prove security, they just show ease of use...rather see that any old face wasn't opening the phone which of course could be the case [unlikely I know]
Maybe the software on stage had bugs. I don't think it matters much. They will fix the bugs I think.
It is 20X more secure than Touch-ID they inferred.
Not such a big deal that a demo had a bug on stage.
Perhaps Craig Federighi picked up the wrong iPhone first instead of the iPhone he was suppose to pick up. It could have just been the set-up placement of the iPhones on the table was mixed after they were plugged in and checked before his presentation. I noticed that the first iPhone he picked up wanted the face id to be enabled, which suggests that it was not.
For me it's not about failure, it's about the added steps for everyday use. I'll wait until there are "everyday use" reviews posted before I make a decision
I'm sure because of the price and especially the (non-)availabiltiy.
I take my iPhone 7 swimming and it is INFURIATING that I cannot get the Touch ID to even know that I am hitting it so I can at least get to the passcode screen when my fingers are wet. Having a waterproof phone that you can't get into when it's wet is pretty ***** pointless. FaceID might just be the thing that fixes this. As is, I literally change my settings to never turn of the screen when I'm at the pool so I can see what my swim workout is.
Everyone in our family, who lives in Wisconsin, is thrilled with FaceID. We'll no longer have to take our gloves off in winter to unlock our phones. This is important enough to my wife that she scratched off her new car buying list any cars that did not have keyless entry and start. Apple moved in the right direction here.
What happens if you gain or lose a bunch of weight? It changes with you? If so, pretty cool tech but still don't want to give up Touch ID.
Also, I don't think Apple resurrects technology it kills, so I wouldn't bet Touch ID makes a comeback. I bet Face ID expands to other platforms beginning with the iMac Pro in December.